#eel voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
supertype: #soft-finned_fish__malacopterygian any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
member of: #order_Anguilliformes
subtype: #elver young eel
subtype: #common_eel__freshwater_eel eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked
subtype: #Anguilla_sucklandii__tuna New Zealand eel
subtype: #moray_eel__morayeel__moray family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked
subtype: #conger_eel__conger large somber-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food
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