Anguilloidei

Anguilloidei
	American eel, Anguilla rostrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Anguilliformes
Suborder:	Anguilloidei; Bleeker, 1859
Families
	See text

Anguilloidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Anguilliformes, the eels.

Families

The Anguilloidei contains the following families:^[2]

Moringuidae Gill, 1885 (spaghetti eels)
Anguillidae Rafinesque, 1810 (freshwater eels)
Nemichthyidae Kaup. 1859 (snipe eels or threadtail snipe eels)
Serrivomeridae Trewavas, 1932 (sawtooth eels)
Cyematidae Regan, 1912 (bobtail eels)
Monognathidae Trewavas, 1937 (onejaw gulpers)
Neocyematidae Poulsen, M. J. Miller, Sado, Hanel, Tsukamoto & Miya, 2018 (orange bobtail eels)
Eurypharyngidae Gill, 1883 (gulper eels or pelican eels)
Saccopharyngidae Bleeker, 1859 (swallower eels or whiptail gulpers)

This suborder historically included several other families that have recently been moved to new suborders: Chlopsidae (false morays), Heterenchelyidae (mud eels), Muraenidae (moray eels), and Myrocongridae (thin eels).^[3]

References

↑ Thomas J. Near; Christine E. Thacker. "Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii)". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 65 (1): 3–302. doi:10.3374/014.065.0101.
↑ "Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
↑ Nelson, Joseph S.; Grande, Terry C.; Wilson, Mark V. H. (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. pp. 151–153. ISBN 9781118342336.