Anguilliformes
Eels
Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes, which consists of eight suborders, 20 families, 164 genera, and about 1000 species. Eels undergo considerable development from the early larval stage to the eventual adult stage and are usually predators.W CalCOFI holds 732 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2018, as larva, across 43 taxa under it.R
- 732
- observations
- 732
- records
- 320
- sampling events
- 1951–2018
- years
- 2
- datasets
- 24
- species under it
- larva
- life stages
Observed ini
One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front
door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon);
the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.
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name used: Anguilliformes Eels · code
355
Under it · 13 taxa
- F Congridae Conger Eels193
- F Ophichthidae Snake Eels75
- F Nemichthyidae Snipe Eels37
- F Cyematidae Bobtail Eels29
- F Muraenidae Morays21
- F Serrivomeridae Sawtooth Eels13
- F Nettastomatidae Duckbill Eels12
- F Colocongridae short-tail eels11
- F Chlopsidae False Moray8
- F Saccopharyngidae swallowers7
- F Moringuidae spaghetti eels3
- F Derichthyidae longneck eels2
- F Eurypharyngidae gulpers1
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:10295")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:10295'").df()