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Related FAQs: Moray Eels,
Non-Moray Marine Eels, Conger Eels,
Moray
Identification, Moray Selection,
Moray Compatibility, Moray
Systems, Moray Feeding, Moray
Disease,
Related Articles: Non-Moray
Marine Eels, Conger
Eels, Snake & Worm Eels, Morays:
Moray Eels,
The Zebra Moray (Gymnomuraena zebra), Snowflake Morays,
The
"Freshwater" Moray Eels,
The Diversity of Aquatic Life
Series
Marine
Eels other than Morays
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by Bob Fenner
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Conger triporiceps |
The True Eels, Order Anguilliformes, lack pelvic fins and related skeletal
material. Some are also without pectoral finnage and suspensory girdle. Many are
scale-less, those with them are cycloid, small, embedded. These
"snake-like" fishes (many head-lengths into body length) typically
have small gill openings, and their gills lack the rakers of advanced bony
fishes. The group is missing a number of head bones, pyloric caeca, and have a
peculiar leptocephalus larval stage in common. According to Nelson (3d ed.)
there are some three suborders, fifteen families, 141 genera and 738 described
species of true eels.
What's in a name? A bunch of Non-Eels though called them:
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Anarhichadidae, Wolf
fishes, Wolf Blennies, Wolf Eels; North Atlantic, North Pacific. Two
genera with four species. These neat, hand-trainable fishes are mainly
seen in public aquaria as they can be enormous (up to 2.5 meters) in size.
Gentle giants that are favorites of Public Aquariums everywhere. An Anarrhichthys
ocellatus at the Birch Aquarium, San Diego. |
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