Mikko's Phylogeny Archive

Anguilliformes – eels and relatives

After Nelson, 1994, with Recent species from Froese & Pauly, 2001 [“The Fishbase”]

<==o Anguilliformes Berg, 1940 (eels and relatives; ankeriaskalat)
   |--o Anguillavidae
   |  |--o †Anguillavus L.Cret. SWAs
   |  |  |-- †A. bathshebae
   |  |  `-- †A. quadripinnis
   |  |-- †Enchelurus L.Cret. Eu.
   |  |-- †Eoanguilla M.Eoc. Eu.
   |  `?- Mastygocerus Mioc.-R. EInd. [not regocnized by the Fishbase, Identifiacation and Recent status in Carroll (1988) highly suspecious]
   `--+--o †Urenchelys Woodward, 1900, L.Cret. Eu. NA. SWAs. [Urenchelyidae]
      |  |-- †U. avus Woodward, 1901
      |  |-- †U. abditus Wiley & Stewart, 1981
      |  |-- †U. anglicus Woodward, 1900
      |  |-- †U. germanus Hay, 1903
      |  `-- †U. hakelensis (Davis,1887)
      |-- Protoanguilla palau Johnson, Ida, Sakaue, Sado, Asahida & Miya, 2012 [Protoanguillidae Johnson, Ida, Sakaue, Sado, Asahida & Miya, 2012]
      `--+--o Anguilloidei (ankeriaansukuiset)
         |  |-- Anguillidae (freshwater eels; ankeriaat)
         |  |-- Heterenchelyidae
         |  `-- Moringuidae (worm eels; matoankeriaat)
         |?- Muraenoidei (Morey-like; mureenansukuiset)
         `--+-- Congroidei (conger-like; meriankeriaansukuiset)
            `-- Saccopharyngiformes (ahmattiankeriaskalat, pelikaanikalat)

Anguilliformes incertae sedis:

        †Gazolapodus M.Eoc. Eu.

    †Proteomyridae
        †Proteomyrus ventralis M.Eoc. Eu.

    †Milananguillidae
        †Milananguilla lehmani M.Eoc. Eu.

    †Patavichtidae
        †Patavichthys bolcensis M.Eoc. Eu.
        †Bolcanguilla brachycephala M.Eoc. Eu.

    †Paranguillidae
        †Dalpiazella brevicauda M.Eoc. Eu.
        †Paranguilla tigrina M.Eoc. Eu. 

    †Anguilloididae
        †Anguilloides M.Eoc.-Mioc. Eu.
        †A. branchiostegalis
        †Veronanguilla ruffoi M.Eoc. Eu.

<==o Anguilliformes
   |-- Protoanguilla
   `--+-- Synaphobranchidae
      `--+--+-- Heterenchelyidae
         |  `--+-- Myrocongridae
         |     `-- Muraenidae
         `--+--+-- Moringuidae
            |  `--+--o Saccopharyngiformes
            |     |  |--+-- Eurypharyngidae
            |     |  |  `-- Saccopharyngidae
            |     |  `--+-- Monognathidae
            |     |     `-- Cyematidae
            |     `--+-- Nemichthyidae
            |        `--+-- Serrivomeridae
            |           `-- Anguillidae
            `--+-- Chlopsidae
               `--+--+-- Colocongridae
                  |  `-- Derichthyidae
                  `--+--+-- Conger [Congrinae]
                     |  `-- Nettastomatidae
                     `--+--+-- Ariosoma [Congrinae]
                        |  `--+-- Heterocongrinae
                        |     `-- Bathymurinae
                        `--+-- Ophichthyidae
                           `-- Mureanesocidae

Reference(s):

• Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
  –W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698
• Carroll, R. L., 1988: Appendix. 594-648
  in Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
  –W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698
• Frickhinger, K. A., 1995: Fossil Atlas – Fishes.
  –Mergus – Publishers for Natural History and Pet Books, Hans A. Baensch, Malle, Germany, 1-1088
• Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds), 2001: FishBase.
  –iNet: www.fishbase.org
• Johnson, G. D., Ida, H., Sakaue, J., Sado, T., Asahida, T. & Miya, M., 2012: A ‘living fossil’ eel (Anguilliformes: Protanguillidae, fam. nov.) from an undersea cave in Palau.
  –Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol. 279, #1730, pp. 934-943 [doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1289]
• Nelson, J. S., 1994: Fishes of the world.
  –John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 1994, xx-600
• Wiley, E. O. & Stewart, J. D., 1981: Urenchelys abditus, new species, the first undoubted eel (Teleostei: Anguilliformes) from the Cretaceous of North America.
  –Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 1, #1, pp. 43-47