page_title: Eel
hierarchical_section_title: Eel
caption_attribution_description: Conger conger
context_page_description: An eel is any ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes, which consists of eight suborders, 19 families, 111 genera, and about 800 species. Eels undergo considerable development from the early larval stage to the eventual adult stage, and most are predators.
  The term "eel" is also used for some other eel-shaped fish, such as electric eels, spiny eels, and deep-sea spiny eels. These other clades, however, evolved their eel-like shapes independently from the true eels.
context_section_description: An eel is any ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes (/æŋˌɡwɪlɪˈfɔːrmiːz/), which consists of eight suborders, 19 families, 111 genera, and about 800 species. Eels undergo considerable development from the early larval stage to the eventual adult stage, and most are predators.
  The term "eel" is also used for some other eel-shaped fish, such as electric eels (genus Electrophorus), spiny eels (family Mastacembelidae), and deep-sea spiny eels (family Notacanthidae). These other clades, however, evolved their eel-like shapes independently from the true eels.
caption: The European conger is the heaviest of all eels.
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