Muraenoidei is a suborder of mainly marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Anguilliformes, the eels. The eels in this suborder are distributed in the tropical and temperate seas around the world.
Families
The Muraenoidei contains the following nine families:
- Infraorder Muraenales
- Family Heterenchelyidae <small>Regan, 1912</small> (mud eels)
- Family Myrocongridae <small>Gill, 1890</small> (myroconger eels)
- Family Muraenidae <small>Rafinesque, 1815</small> (moray eels)
- Subfamily Uropterygiinae <small>Fowler, 1925</small> (tailfin moray eels)
- Subfamily Muraeninae <small>Rafinesque, 1815</small> (morays)
- Infraorder Congrales
- Family Colocongridae <small>Smith, 1976</small> (shorttail eels)
- Family Derichthyidae <small>Gill, 1884</small> (longneck eels or narrowneck eels)
- Family Ophichthidae <small>Günther, 1870</small> (snake eels and worm eels)
- Subfamily Myrophinae <small>Kaup, 1856</small> (worm eels)
- Subfamily Ophichthinae <small>Günther, 1870</small> (snake eels)
- Family Muraenesocidae <small>Kaup, 1859</small> (pike conger eels)
- Family Nettastomatidae <small>Kaup, 1859</small> (duckbill eels)
- Family Congridae <small>Kaup, 1856</small> (conger eels)
- Subfamily Congrinae <small>Kaup, 1856</small> (congers)
- Subfamily Bathymyrinae <small>Böhlke, 1949</small>
- Subfamily Heterocongrinae <small>Günther, 1870</small> (garden eels)
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