NOUN | animal | order Apodes, Anguilliformes, order Anguilliformes | elongate fishes with pelvic ... / pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced |
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Meaning | elongate fishes with pelvic ... / pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced. | |
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Synonyms | Anguilliformes, order Anguilliformes | |
Member of | Malacopterygii, superorder Malacopterygii | An extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays |
Members | Anguillidae, family Anguillidae | eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn |
Congridae, family Congridae | marine eels | |
Muraenidae, family Muraenidae | marine eels | |
eel | voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins | |
Broader | animal order | The order of animals |
Spanish | anguiliformes | |
Catalan | anguiliformes |
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