Greetings.  I'm not a regular poster to this ng, and I hope you don't mind
my butting in.
I'd like opinions about an eel that I found.
This eel wound up in a large puddle of water after a near flooding downpour
the night before.  We live virtually on the edge of a swampy area and the
eel must have been washed out somehow.
It is unlike any eels that I've found either online or in my own reference
or seen with my own eyes.  The pictures aren't very good, but they show the
square nose characteristic of the eel.  What the pictures don't show is that
the creature has feet which are only about an inch long and very
underdeveloped in appearance.  I'm not sure what the gill like things are
that are visable in the picture. The eel didn't look that way out of the
water.  I assume they are gills as I never see it come to the surface for
air.  I've currently got it in a 50 gal. plastic drum half full of
rainwater.
I have no intentions of keeping it and will soon release it, but I'd sure
like to know what it is.
I'd appreciate any helpful replies.
Happy new year.
Tom
http://www.geocities.com/fidormula/eel1.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/fidormula/eel2.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/fidormula/eel3.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/fidormula/eel4.jpg
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