Anguilliformes
Eels
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161123 via WoRMS external link
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 1 dataseti
One row per dataset, and beside it 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, and beside it 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
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Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
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()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 13 taxa · Congridae most observed
- 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
Life stages larva
- Ichthyoplankton larva
The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.
Lineage 9 ranks · Biota to Teleostei
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Monognathus · source
- Photo · lcolmer · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Eel” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1373414955
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗