Highlands long-finned eel


The Highlands long-finned eel is an eel in the family Anguillidae. It was described by Gilbert Percy Whitley in 1938. It is a tropical eel known from freshwaters in eastern New Guinea. The eels spend most of their lives in freshwater but migrate to the ocean to breed. Males can reach a maximum total length of 80 centimetres.
Anguilla interioris is considered most similar morphologically to Anguilla celebensis and Anguilla megastoma.