Muraenoidei
| Muraenoidei | |
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| Muraenales represented by a Mediterranean moray, (Muraena helena) | |
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| Congrales, represented by a darkfin pike eel (Muraenesox cinereus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Suborder: | Muraenoidei Fitzinger, 1832[1] |
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Muraenoidei is a suborder of mainly marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Anguilliformes, the eels. The eels in this suborder are distributed in the tropical and temperate seas around the world.
Families
[edit]The Muraenoidei contains the following nine to ten families:[2]
- Infraorder Chlopsales?
- Family Chlopsidae Rafinesque, 1815 (false morays)?
- Infraorder Muraenales
- Family Heterenchelyidae Regan, 1912 (mud eels)
- Family Myrocongridae Gill, 1890 (myroconger eels)
- Family Muraenidae Rafinesque, 1815 (moray eels)
- Subfamily Uropterygiinae Fowler, 1925 (tailfin moray eels)
- Subfamily Muraeninae Rafinesque, 1815 (morays)
- Infraorder Congrales
- Family Colocongridae Smith, 1976 (shorttail eels)
- Family Derichthyidae Gill, 1884 (longneck eels or narrowneck eels)
- Family Ophichthidae Günther, 1870 (snake eels and worm eels)
- Subfamily Myrophinae Kaup, 1856 (worm eels)
- Subfamily Ophichthinae Günther, 1870 (snake eels)
- Family Muraenesocidae Kaup, 1859 (pike conger eels)
- Family Nettastomatidae Kaup, 1859 (duckbill eels)
- Family Congridae Kaup, 1856 (conger eels)
- Subfamily Congrinae Kaup, 1856 (congers)
- Subfamily Bathymyrinae Böhlke, 1949
- Subfamily Heterocongrinae Günther, 1870 (garden eels)
References
[edit]- ^ Thomas J. Near; Christine E. Thacker. "Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii)". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 65 (1): 3–302. doi:10.3374/014.065.0101.
- ^ "Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
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