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The Anguillidae are a family of ray-finned fish that contains the freshwater eels.Except from the genus Neoanguilla, with the only known species Neoanguilla nepalensis from Nepal, [5] all the extant species and six subspecies in this family are in the genus Anguilla, and are elongated fish of snake-like bodies, with long dorsal, caudal and anal fins forming a continuous fringe.
American eel (Anguilla rostrata) American gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum) American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) Arkansas darter (Etheostoma cragini) Arkansas River shiner (Notropis girardi) Banded darter (Etheostoma zonale) Banded pygmy sunfish (Elassoma zonatum) Banded sculpin (Cottus carolinae) Bantam sunfish (Lepomis symmetricus)
Southern brook lamprey. The southern brook lamprey ( Ichthyomyzon gagei) is a lamprey found in the Southern United States including Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. It is a jawless fish with a sucking mouth on one end of it (like a leech ). It can appear to be a small eel, since it is rarely longer than one foot in length.
Eel life history
Freshwater eel poaching and smuggling
Congridae. The Congridae are the family of conger and garden eels. Congers are valuable and often large food fishes, while garden eels live in colonies, all protruding from the sea floor after the manner of plants in a garden (thus the name). [ 1] The family includes over 180 species in 32 genera. The European conger, Conger conger, is the ...