Anguilliformes

• Main Authors: Mucientes, Gonzalo, Arronte, Juan Carlos
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Anguilliformes; Ryder; Anguilla anguilla
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6208118; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6208118

ORDER ANGUILLIFORMES Family Anguillidae * Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758) — European eel Family Muraenidae Muraena helena Linnaeus, 1758 — Mediterranean moray Family Synaphobranchidae Synaphobranchus kaupii Johnson, 1862 — Kaup's arrowtooth eel Family Ophichthidae Ophisurus serpens (Linnaeus, 1758) — Serpent eel Pisodonophis semicinctus (Richardson, 1848) — Saddled snake eel Not mentioned for the Atlantic European waters by Bauchot in Whitehead et al. (1986). Recorded from Galicia by Bañón et al. (2002) (figure 3). Family Congridae *Conger conger (Linnaeus, 1758) — European conger Family Nemichthyidae Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson, 1848 — Slender snipe eel Family Serrivomeridae Serrivomer beanii Gill & Ryder, 1883 — Bean's sawtoothed eel Family Nettastomatidae Nettastoma melanurum Rafinesque, 1810 — Blackfin sorcerer Not mentioned for Galicia by Saldanha in Whitehead et al. (1986). Recorded by Bañón et al. (1997) based on six specimens caught between 806 and 1139 m depth. Facciolella oxyrhyncha (Bellotti, 1883) — Facciola's sorcerer One specimen of 56 cm TL caught during the survey “Demersales 06” at 436 m depth. Published as part of Mucientes, Gonzalo & Arronte, Juan Carlos, 2010, Marine fishes from Galicia (NW Spain): an updated checklist, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 2667 on pages 6-7, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.276366