Anguilliformes (Noun)
Meaning
Elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Eels belong to the order Anguilliformes, which is a group of elongate fishes characterized by their slender bodies and absence of pelvic fins and girdle.
- The order Anguilliformes is a diverse group of elongate fishes, but all of its members have either reduced or entirely absent pelvic fins and girdle.
- Hagfish are not Anguilliformes as they do not possess true fins like other fish of this order, having well-developed ducts that secrete slime instead.
- Some of the members of the order Anguilliformes have very distinct shapes that highlight the differences between them, like the European eel and the hag-like electric eel is not really an eel and also its not Anguilliformes but a Knife Fish.
- Scientists studying deep-sea marine ecosystems are fascinated by the unique mechanisms of Anguilliformes, that enable them to survive in these diverse aquatic environments with or without very reduced pelvic fins.