order Anguilliformes

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order Anguilliformes - elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced

animal order - the order of animals

Malacopterygii, superorder Malacopterygii - an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays

eel - voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins

Anguillidae, family Anguillidae - eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn

family Muraenidae, Muraenidae - marine eels

Congridae, family Congridae - marine eels

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The order Anguilliformes is usually considered a monophyletic group, and the well-supported grouping of the anguilliform genera Conger and Anguilla (with a bootstrap value of 91%) is thus expected (see e.g.

Teleostean phylogeny based on osteological and myological characters/Filogenia de teleosteos basada en caracteristicas osteologicas y miologicas