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Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Anguilliformes

Eels

WoRMS 10295ITIS 161123GBIF 495key worms:10295
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161123 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Monognathus

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).

Photograph of Anguilliformes
Photo · lcolmer · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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 in
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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.

  • Ichthyoplankton 320 obs · 320 events · 1951–2016 · larva
    name used: Anguilliformes Eels · code 355

Under it · 13 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:10295%22