Habitat. The preferred environment for the Asian swamp eel includes a wide variety of muddy, freshwater, shallow wetlands, such as rice paddies, ditches, ponds ... Taxonomy · Description · Distribution · Ecology

Native Range: Asia, from northern India and Burma to China, perhaps Asiatic Russia, Japan, and the Indo-Malayan Archipelago (Bailey and Gans 1998); possibly ...

U.S. Habitat: A wide variety of freshwater habitats are used by Asian swamp eels, such as shallow wetlands, stagnant mashes, rivers or even ditches. Also ...

M. albus can be found in freshwater ponds, canals, and rice fields where it burrows in soft sediments or hides in crevices. The Asian swamp eel is primarily ...

These live Asian swamp eels were imported from southeast Asia and sold in an urban food market in the U.S. Raw or undercooked Asian swamp eels could transmit a ...

“Swamp eels are generally found in slowly moving freshwater regions. They are noctural, and will often burrow into soft sediments or occupy crevices and small ...

They prefer freshwater habitats, but can tolerate brackish and saline conditions. It is likely the Asian swamp eel was introduced to North. America by ...

Monopterus albus is native to Asia and potentially northeastern Australia. Asian swamp eel were likely introduced to the United States as intentionally released ...

The preferred environment for the Asian swamp eel includes a wide variety of muddy, freshwater, shallow wetlands, such as rice paddies, ditches, ponds, marshes ...