| NOUN | animal | leptocephalus | slender transparent larva of eels and certain fishes |
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| Meaning | slender transparent larva of eels and certain fishes. | |
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| Member of | Teleostei, subclass Teleostei | large diverse group of bony fishes |
| Broader | larva | The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose |
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