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The Anguilliformes (true eels) are an order of bony fishes.
Classification
- Order Anguilliformes (true eels, gulpers)
- Suborder Anguilloidei
- Family Anguillidae (freshwater eels including American eel, important for food)
- Family Heterenchelyidae
- Family Moringuidae (worm eels)
- Family Xenocongridae (false morays)
- Family Muraenidae (moray eels)
- Family Myrocongridae
- Suborder Nemichthyoidei
- Family Nemichthyidae (snipe eels)
- Family Serrivomeridae (sawtooth snipe eels)
- Family Cyemidae (bobtail snipe eels)
- Suborder Congroidei
- Family Congridae (congers)
- Family Muraenesocidae (conger pikes)
- Family Nettastomatidae (witch eels)
- Family Nessorhamphidae (duckbilled eels)
- Family Derichthyidae (neck eels)
- Family Ophichthidae (snake eels)
- Family Macrocephenchelyidae
- Suborder Synaphobranchoidei
- Family Synaphobranchidae
- Family Simenchelyidae (parasitic eels)
- Family Dysommidae
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