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Anguilla
Schrank, 1798
- freshwater eels
(fish)
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Anguillidae (Family) - freshwater eels
..†Eoanguilla (Genus)
..Anguilla (Genus) - freshwater eels
....Anguilla anguilla (Species) - common eel
....Anguilla australis (Species) - eel
....Anguilla bengalensis (Species)
....Anguilla bicolor (Species)
....Anguilla celebesensis (Species) - Celebes longfin eel
....Anguilla dieffenbachii (Species) - New Zealand longfin eel
....Anguilla interioris (Species)
....Anguilla japonica (Species) - Japanese eel
....Anguilla malgumora (Species)
....Anguilla marmorata (Species) - giant mottled eel
....Anguilla megastoma (Species) - Polynesian longfin eel
....Anguilla mossambica (Species) - African longfin eel
....Anguilla nebulosa (Species) - African mottled eel
....Anguilla nigricans (Species)
....Anguilla obscura (Species) - Pacific shortfinned freshwater eel
....Anguilla reinhardtii (Species) - longfin eel
....Anguilla rostrata (Species) - American eel
Authorship
Original name
:
Schrank, 1798. Fauna Boica, 1 (2): 304, 307.
Original rank
:
Original spelling
:
Types
Type of
:
Anguillidae
(Family)
Rafinesque, 1810
Ref:
R. Fricke et al. (eds.), 2021
: 9 Apr 2025.
[implicit]
Type, by absolute tautonymy
:
Anguilla anguilla
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Variants
Incorrect authorship
:
Anguilla
(Genus)
Shaw, 1803
Synonyms
Including
:
Neoanguilla
(Genus)
Shrestha, 2008, nom. inval.
Ref:
W.N. Eschmeyer, 2004-2016
: 30 Apr 2009.
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
freshwater eels
Ref:
T.I. Storer et al., 1979
: 682.
:
eel
Ref:
I.V. Volvenko et al., 2020
: 3.
Vernacular Names (Russian)
Full name
:
Речной угорь [Rechnoy ugorʹ]
Ref:
I.V. Volvenko et al., 2020
: 3.
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