From vegetable plots in a Sri Lankan swamp, a forgotten eel emerges

Mongabay
Mar 24, 2020, 5:08 am207 pts
COLOMBO — When a team of researchers decided to scan some vegetable plots in a murky swamp area in western Sri Lanka, they were looking for live specimens of what vegetable farmers commonly referred to as vel anda, or the lesser swamp eel (Monopterus desilvai), a species endemic to Sri Lanka. They had very…

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