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Ilyophinae, the arrowtooth ells or mustard eels, is a subfamily of marine ray-finned fishes belongiing to the family Synaphobranchidae, the cutthroat eels. Within its family this subfamily shows greatest number of species and the greatest morphological diversity.
Ophichthidae is a family of fish in the order Anguilliformes, commonly known as the snake eels. The term "Ophichthidae" comes from Greek ophis ("serpent") and ichthys ("fish"). Snake eels are also burrowing eels. They are named for their physical appearance, as they have long, cylindrical, snake-like bodies. [2]
Myrichthys maculosus, commonly known as the tiger snake eel, [2] the ocellate snake eel or the spotted snake eel, [3] is a species of fish in the family Ophichthidae, native to the Indo-Pacific. It is occasionally encountered in the aquarium trade. It grows to a length of 1 m (40 in).
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 eelpouts are the ray-finned fish family Zoarcidae. As the common name suggests, they are somewhat eel-like in appearance. All of the 300 species are marine and mostly bottom-dwelling, some at great depths. Eelpouts are predominantly found in the Northern Hemisphere.
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 ...
Fish of this family are long, slender, and generally steely blue or silver in colour, giving rise to their name. They have reduced or absent pelvic and caudal fins , giving them an eel -like appearance, and large fang-like teeth.
The Asian swamp eel is a freshwater, eel-like fish belonging to the family Synbranchidae (swamp eels). [4] Some work indicates that the species should be split into three geographical clades or cryptic species, although these were not given nomenclatural names, as the taxonomic synonymy was too complex to sort out at the time.