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Anguilliformity is: a morphological pattern in fishes, named for and typified by the——eels. Anguilliform fish have a long, "slender body." And travel by anguilliform motion. The caudal fin is often emphasized, with the "other fins reduced," absent,/fused with the caudal fin. Anguilliformity has evolved independently in many groups, including among others:

• Anguilliformes, the eels
• Synbranchiformes, the swamp eels
• Clariidae, the airbreathing catfishes
• Dipnoi, the lungfishes
• Cobitidae, the loaches
• Gymnotidae, the knifefishes, including the electric eel Electrophorus electricus

See also※

• Limbless vertebrate

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