[Sounds recorded in salt marshes and attributed to the European eel].
The sounds were recorded in coastal ponds off the French Atlantic coast. They are characterized by continuous series of regularly spaced sounds, each sound being composed of one to four pulses of 7.8-ms duration. The main frequencies of these sounds are under 350 Hz. Due to the special characteristics of these sounds, their temporal patterning, their coastal pond provenance and their close similarity to sounds made by the American eel (Anguilla rostrata), we attribute them to the European eel (Anguilla anguilla).
Lagardère
Jean Paul
JP
CNRS-Ifremer, CREMA, BP 5, 17137 L'Houmeau, France. jplagard@ifremer.fr
Ernande
Bruno
B
D000818:Animals; D004524:Eels / Q000502:physiology*; D005602:France; D012623:Seawater; D013016:Sound