The difference between eel and white eel is mainly the appearance and origin.

Eel: the body length of the baby fish is about 6 cm, weight about 0.1 grams, thin, transparent body, narrow head, so called willow leaf fish, the largest adult individual is about 45 cm, weight about 1600 grams, mainly distributed in the Minjiang River, Yangtze River, Hainan Island, Pearl River Basin and rivers and lakes.

White eel: body length of about 20.7 centimeters, scale-free or with very small scales, anal fin, dorsal very low and around the tail end of the phase continuous, like quiet, living in the water's edge mud holes and cracks in the stone.

First, the difference between eel and white eel

1, the appearance of different

(1) eel's baby fish body length of about 6 centimeters, weighing 0.1 grams or so, the body is high, thin and transparent like a leaf in general, the head of the narrow, so it is known as the willow fish, the adult fish's largest individual of about 45 centimeters, weighing 1600 grams. The largest adult fish is about 45 centimeters and weighs 1600 grams, and its body fluids are almost the same as those of seawater, so it can be drifted along with the ocean currents over long distances with very little effort.

(2) white eel is about 20.7 centimeters long, scale-free or with very small scales, anal fin, dorsal is very low and around the tail end of the continuous, gills are usually only in the throat with an external gill hole, anterior section of the tubular to the end of the gradually flattened side, the tail end of the flattened, the whole exposed head, scale-free, pointed, tapered nose, body slender snake, body rounded in front of the body after the rear of the lateral flattening, the head is long and rounded, the tail tip thin.

2, origin

(1) China's eel is mainly distributed in the Minjiang River, the Yangtze River, Hainan Island, the Pearl River Basin and rivers and lakes, the world's eel is mainly grown in temperate and tropical waters, in addition to the American eel and the European eel is distributed in the Atlantic Ocean, the rest of the eel is distributed in the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean region.

(2) White eels generally lie still underwater, like to be quiet, living in the mud holes and crevices of the water's edge, in Gui, Yu, Sichuan, Yun, E, Xiang, Anhui, Henan and other places are distributed, in November and December hidden in the hole.