What is Anguilloidei?
{{Taxobox | name = Anguilloidei | image = Anguillarostratakils.jpg | image_width = 260px | image_caption = [[American eel]], ''Anguilla rostrata'' | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Actinopterygii]] | ordo = [[Anguilliformes]] | subordo = '''Anguilloidei''' | subdivision_ranks = Families | subdivision = [[Anguillidae]]<br/> [[Sawtooth eel|Serrivomeridae]]<br/> [[Snipe eel|Nemichthyidae]] }} The '''Anguilloidei''' are a suborder of the order [[Anguilliformes]] (the eels) containing three families:<ref name=FotW5>{{cite book|last1=Nelson|first1=Joseph S.|last2=Grande|first2=Terry C.|last3=Wilson|first3=Mark V. H.|year=2016|title=''Fishes of the World''|edition=5th|pages=151–153|publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]]|isbn=9781118342336}}</ref> *[[Anguillidae]] (freshwater eels) *[[Serrivomeridae]] (sawtooth eels) *[[Nemichthyidae]] (snipe eels) This suborder used to have included several other families that have recently been moved to new suborders: [[Chlopsidae]] (false morays), [[Heterenchelyidae]] (mud eels), [[Moringuidae]] (worm eels), [[Muraenidae]] (moray eels), and [[Myrocongridae]] (thin eels).<ref name=FotW5/> ==References== {{reflist}} * {{FishBase order|order = Anguilliformes|month = January|year = 2006}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q2550723}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Eels]]