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FROST1 published the first account of the biology of freshwater eels in Kenya. She showed that, of the three species of eel found in the easterly flowing rivers, Anguilla nebulosa labiata Peters is the most abundant above 3,000 ft.; A. mossambica Peters is comparatively rare, and A. bicolor bicolor McClelland is both uncommon and apparently restricted to the lower reaches of rivers. Our own (unpublished) records from the lower Sabaki (Athi) River and from upper tributaries of the Tana River confirm this distribution.
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VAN SOMEREN, V., WHITEHEAD, P. Records of Young Eels in Kenya Rivers. Nature 183, 950 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183950a0
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