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The term "eel" is also used for some other eel-shaped fish, such as electric eels (genus Electrophorus), swamp eels (order Synbranchiformes), and deep-sea spiny eels (family Notacanthidae). However, these other clades , with the exception of deep-sea spiny eels, whose order Notacanthiformes is the sister clade to true eels, evolved their eel ...
In British folklore, the monster known as the Lambton Worm may have been based on a lamprey, since it is described as an eel-like creature with nine eyes. [citation needed] In Japanese, lamprey are called yatsume-unagi (八つ目鰻, "eight-eyed eels"), thus excluding the nostril from the count. [citation needed]
The true Kuhli loach (Pangio kuhlii), which can be used synonymously with "coolie" loach, [2] [3] occasionally referred to as eel loach, is a small eel-like freshwater fish belonging to the loach family . They originate from the island of Java in Indonesia. [4] [5] This serpentine, worm-shaped [6] [7] creature is very slender and nocturnal. Its ...
The German zoologist Carl Sachs was sent to Latin America by the physiologist Emil du Bois-Reymond, to study the electric eel; [62] he took with him a galvanometer and electrodes to measure the fish's electric organ discharge, [63] and used rubber gloves to enable him to catch the fish without being shocked, to the surprise of the local people ...
The Caspian lamprey is a slim-bodied, eel-like fish that grows to a length of about 40 cm (16 in). The longest recorded specimen was 55 cm (22 in) long and weighed 206 g (7.3 oz). Like other lampreys, it has no jaws, but it has a round oral disc surrounding the mouth. Inside this it has several radiating rows of tiny, backward-facing teeth.
Synbranchiformes, often called swamp eels, though that name can also refer specifically to Synbranchidae, is an order of ray-finned fishes that are eel-like but have spiny rays, indicating that they belong to the superorder Acanthopterygii.
It’s not a pike eel, or a silver eel. The teeth look like some kind of Moray eel. But the face is very blunt. It was about 9 (feet) long.” ... Grotesque fish caught off Australia ignites ...
The silver lamprey is an eel-like fish with an attenuate body composed of 49–52 clearly defined segments (i.e. myomeres, between the last gill slit and the anus).Silver lampreys possess a cartilaginous skeleton, and adults generally grow to a length of 12 inches and are silvery or bluish in color when spawning.