(and why is an electric eel not one of them?) eel is not a true
eel. Nor is the "wolf eel" in the picture below. The moray eel,
on the other hand, is a true eel. What's the difference? The
easy answer is that a true eel is a member of the fish order
Anguilliformes, and that other eel-like fish are not. But this
begs the question: what characteristics are used to place a fish
in the eel order? 1. They have a dorsal fin that is continuous
with the caudal and anal fin. 2. They have very small , embedded
scales or no scales. 3. As juveniles and adults, members of the
family Anguillidae live in fresh water, but they breed in the
ocean, where most other members of the eel order, including the
Moray, spend their entire lives. These freshwater eels are skin-
breathers, absorbing oxygen into dense beds of capillaries that
lie very close under 4. They are "slippery as an eel" due to the
production of slime. In the green moray, yellow slime overlying
a blue body produces its greenish color. 5. Larval eels are
flattened r