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This video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtjSS5FmQc0 at 15 minutes, also calls it the eel spear. If other sources use the same alternate name, then you might want to add it to the article. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 20:52, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]