Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758)
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https://doi.org/ 10.26028/cybium/2013-371-009 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03861E3B-FF96-FF81-FF41-21FCC0F4FA81 |
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Felipe |
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scientific name |
Anguilla anguilla |
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A. anguilla View in CoL was removed from the French list of pest species (Boude et al., 2007) and the species is now protected throughout Europe (Anonyme, 2010).
Space and time
Data from more than 220 water bodies were recorded. Most data were from rivers (80%). The rest was divided between ponds (12%) and canals (8%). The Seine River was the water body the most cited in historic sources (23%) (Tab. III). Major tributaries such as the Yonne, Marne, and Oise rivers and, to a lesser extent, the Eure and Loing rivers were also cited. There were also some observations from smaller streams ( Fig. 2 View Figure 2 ).
About twenty canals were identified in the documents. The two major ones were the Bourgogne Canal (35%) and the Nivernais Canal (15%), both in the Bourgogne region. There were also many observations for ponds, which were significant fishing reserves for anglers and fish farmers.
The data cover a large part of the Seine basin and all the major rivers are mentioned ( Fig. 3 View Figure 3 ).
A large part of the data was assigned to the regional scale (93%) [30% in Bourgogne, 20% in Champagne-Ardenne, 19% in Île-de-France, 16% in Haute-Normandie, 6% in Picardie, and 2% in Centre], and at the departmental scale (85%). Fifty-eight percent of data was associated with a city or a village, but only 7% was precisely located on a river reach (or a lake or pond).
Because we focused our archival research on the modern period, a large majority of data (98.5%) was from the 19 th and 20 th centuries. In anticipation of a probable, future, temporal extension of our database, older data were occasionally recorded in CHIPS. The oldest ones date back to the 16 th century.
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