| Congroidei | |
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| European conger, Conger conger | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Suborder: | Congroidei Bleeker, 18641 |
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Congroidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Anguilliformes, the eels. These eels are mostly marine, although a few species of snake eel will enter freshwater, and they are found in tropical and temperate waters throughout the world.2
Families and subfamiles
Congroidei contains the following extant families and subfamilies:34
- Family Colocongridae D. G. 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 J. E. Böhlke, 1949
- Subfamily Heterocongrinae Günther, 1870 (garden eels)
References
References
- 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.
- Nelson, J.S.; Grande, T.C.; Wilson, M.V.H. (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 145–148. doi:10.1002/9781119174844. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. LCCN 2015037522. OCLC 951899884. OL 25909650M.
- "Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification". Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.