Eel (disambiguation)

"Eel" or "eels" may refer to:

Species

• True eel.
• Lamprey, commonly called also lamprey eel.
• Spiny eel.
• Electric eel, Electrophorus electricus.
• Swamp eel.
• Cusk eel.
• Gulper eel.
• Sand eel.
• Wolf eel, Anarrhichthys ocellatus, which belongs to the Anarhichadidae family.

Fiction

• The Eel (fictional character), a pulp fiction character.
• Eel (comics), a comic book supervillain character.
• The Eel (Japanese film), a 1997 movie directed by Shohei Imamura.

• The Eel, a short film by Dominic Hailstone.

Music

• EELS (band), a musical group with an ever changing list of players.
• The Eel, one of the Gorilla Bites that were used to promote the first Gorillaz album.

Acronyms and abbreviations

• EEL (Extensible Embeddable Language), a scripting and programming language intended for hard real time applications.
• Electron energy loss spectroscopy, often abbreviated as "EELS".

Other

• Several rivers named Eel River.
• Eric Moussambani, nicknamed The Eel.
• USS Eel (SS-354), a projected but not completed United States Navy submarine.