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No, When the very similar European eel (classified as Anguilla anguilla) and the American eel (classified as Anguilla rostrata) reach maturity in freshwater lakes and rivers, they take watercourses, sometimes slithering overland through dewy grass, to reach the ocean, where they swim or drift with currents for as long as a year until they reach the sluggish, weed-filled Sargasso. Here the eels spawn in deep water. Before dying, the female produces as many as 20 million free-floating eggs. The leptocephali drift with the Gulf Stream, taking one year to reach North America and three years to reach Europe. By this time they have become elvers and accumulate at the mouths of rivers in great masses. The yellow elvers swim upstream and feed on lake-bottom and river-bottom animals until they become adults. At maturity their bodies become black and silver.

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