**Description:** A snake-like fish with a long, continuous fin and a thick layer of slippery mucus.
**Size & Weight:** Females can reach 3–4 feet; males are smaller.
**Sexual Dimorphism:** Females grow significantly larger than males.
**Life Cycle:** Catadromous; they live in freshwater rivers but swim thousands of miles to the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic to spawn.
**Habitat:** Rare / Species of Concern. Found in the Allegheny River and deeper reservoir sections.
**Behavior:** Highly nocturnal; remarkably capable of crawling across damp grass to reach separate bodies of water.