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Eel

Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes (/æŋˈɡwɪlɪfɔːrmiːz/), 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.

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Eel

Nodes238
Edges237
Triples165
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008403
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Eel

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related to Use by humans · 38
Eel → Adriatic, Assamese, Bolsena Lake, Cabras, Chinese, Comacchio, Czech Republic, Denmark, During, Eels, Elvers, Europe, Freshwater, Germany, HKD, Hong Kong, In, In India, In Italian, Japanese
related to Etymology · 35
Eel → According, Also, Anatolia, Armenian, Avestan, Bellerophon, Common Germanic, Dutch, Eustathius, German Aal, Germanic, Greece, Greek, Hesychius, Hittite, Icelandic, Illuyanka, In, Indo-European, It
related to External links · 18
Eel → Anguilliformes, Apodes, August, Daniel, FishBase, Froese, Integrated Taxonomic Information System, January, June, New International Encyclopedia, No, Order Anguilliformes, Pauly, Rainer, Retrieved, Scientific American, The Natural History, Vol
related to Taxonomy · 13
Eel → Body, Campanian, Cenomanian, Cretaceous-Paleogene, Eocene, K-Pg, Late Cretaceous, Lebanon, Maastrichtian, One, Pythonichthys, The, These
related to Description · 11
Eel → Adults, Anguilla, Eels, European, Monognathus, Most, Only, Some, Sometimes, The, They
related to Further references · 11
Eel → Agnes Broomé, Eels, English, ISBN, John Wiley, Patrik Svensson, Sons, Tesch FW, The Book, The Eel, White RJ
related to Sustainable consumption · 10
Eel → American, ComacchioEel, Denmark, Dutch, European, FranceSpecial, Greenpeace International, In, Japan, Japanese
related to In culture · 9
Eel → Almere, Cambridgeshire, Dutch, Ely, England, Flevoland, Medieval Netherlands, Similarly, The
related to Classification · 5
Eel → FishBase, Genomic, ITIS, Several, Systema Naturae
related to Life cycle · 5
Eel → As, Eels, Larval, Mature, Some

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eels family order also freshwater elvers species johnson snake anguilla gill subfamily word water name anguilliformes marine moray rafinesque miya

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Eelis aEuropean conger0.90text
Eelis atraditional Māori food in New Zealand0.90text
ITISinstance ofwhereas other classification systems0.80text
Systema Naturae 2000 include additional eel familiesinstance ofwhereas other classification systems0.80text
which are noted below.Genomic studies indicate that there is a monophyletic group that originated among the deep-sea eelsinstance ofwhereas other classification systems0.80text
pelvic finsinstance ofThese early eels retain primitive traits0.80text
thus do not appear to be closely related to any extant taxainstance ofThese early eels retain primitive traits0.80text
unadoninstance offoods0.80text
unajū are popularinstance offoods0.80text
but expensiveinstance offoods0.80text
Eelrelated to ClassificationSeveral0.60section
Eelrelated to ClassificationFishBase0.60section

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