Order Anguilliformes
(eels)

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Scientific names for Aves taxonomy (family and below) are from The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Princeton University Press, copyright 2003. Used by permission.

• Parent taxa
  
  
  
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  Superorder Elopomorpha
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  Order Anguilliformes (eels)
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  Suborder Anguilloidei
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  Family Anguillidae (freshwater eels)
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  Family Aoteidae
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  Family Dysommidae
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  Family Dysomminidae (arrowtooth eels and mustard eels)
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  Family Echelidae
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  Family Heterenchelyidae
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  Family Macrocephenchelyidae
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  Family Moringuidae (spaghetti eels and worm eels)
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  Family Neenchelyidae
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  Family Nessorhamphidae
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  Family Nettodaridae
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  Family Simenchelyidae
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  Family Todaridae
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  Family Xenocongridae (false morays)
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  Suborder Congroidei
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  Family Colocongridae
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  Family Congridae (conger eels and congers)
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  Family Derichthyidae (longneck eel)
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  Family Muraenesocidae (false conger eels and pike congers)
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  Family Nemichthyidae (snipe eels)
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  Family Nettastomatidae (duckbill eels)
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  Family Ophichthidae (snake eels and worm eels)
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  Family Serrivomeridae (sawtooth eels)
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  Family Synaphobranchidae (cutthroat eels and deepsea eels)
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  Suborder Muraenoidei
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  Family Chlopsidae
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  Family Muraenidae (moray eels and morays)
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  Family Myrocongridae