ADW: Anguilla: CLASSIFICATION

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Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Eumetazoa (metazoans)
  - Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
    - Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
      - Phylum Chordata (chordates)
        
        Craniata (craniates)
        
        Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
        
        Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
        
        Euteleostomi (bony vertebrates)
        
        Class Actinopterygii
        
        Order Anguilliformes
        
        Family Anguillidae (Freshwater eels)
        
        Genus Anguilla
        
        Species Anguilla anguilla (Common eel)
        
        Species Anguilla australis
        
        Species Anguilla bengalensis
        
        Species Anguilla bicolor
        
        Species Anguilla breviceps
        
        Species Anguilla celebesensis (Celebes longfin eel)
        
        Species Anguilla dieffenbachii (Longfinned eel)
        
        Species Anguilla huangi
        
        Species Anguilla interioris (Highlands long-finned eel)
        
        Species Anguilla japonica (Eel)
        
        Species Anguilla malgumora (Indonesian longfinned eel)
        
        Species Anguilla marmorata (Eel)
        
        Species Anguilla megastoma (Pacific long-finned eel)
        
        Species Anguilla mossambica (African longfin eel)
        
        Species Anguilla nebulosa (African mottled eel)
        
        Species Anguilla nigricans
        
        Species Anguilla obscura (Brown eel)
        
        Species Anguilla reinhardtii (Australian longfinned eel)
        
        Species Anguilla rostrata (American eel)

Confused by a class within a class or an order within an order? Please see our brief essay.

To cite this page: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2012. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.

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