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Anguilloidei

Actinopteri - Anguilliformes

Taxonomy
Anguilloidei was named as a suborder. It is extant.

It was reranked as the unranked clade Anguilloidei by Jordan (1963).

It was assigned to Enchelycephali by Jordan (1963); and to Anguilliformes by Frizzell and Dante (1965), Nolf and Dockery (1990), Constantin (1999), Schwarzhans (2003) and Nelson et al. (2016).

Subtaxa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1963Anguilloidei Jordan p. 630
1965Anguilloidei Frizzell and Dante p. 698
1990Anguilloidei Nolf and Dockery III p. 5
1999Anguilloidei Constantin
2003Anguilloidei Schwarzhans p. 29
2016Anguilloidei Nelson et al. p. 150

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
superclassActinopterygii()
classActinopteri()
RankNameAuthor
subclassNeopterygii(Regan 1923)
Teleosteomorpha
Teleostei(Müller 1846)
Elopocephalai
Elopocephala
Elopomorpha()
orderAnguilliformesGreenwood et al. 1966
suborderAnguilloidei
suborderAnguilloidei

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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G. †Muraenanguilla Schwarzhans 2019
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Muraenanguilla lacinata Schwarzhans 2019
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available