Anguilliformes

ORDER ANGUILLIFORMES

Family Anguillidae

* Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758) — European eel

Family Muraenidae

Muraena helena Linnaeus, 1758 — Mediterranean moray

Family Synaphobranchidae

Synaphobranchus kaupii Johnson, 1862 — Kaup's arrowtooth eel

Family Ophichthidae

Ophisurus serpens (Linnaeus, 1758) — Serpent eel

Pisodonophis semicinctus (Richardson, 1848) — Saddled snake eel Not mentioned for the Atlantic European waters by Bauchot in Whitehead et al. (1986). Recorded from Galicia by Bañón et al. (2002) (figure 3).

Family Congridae

*Conger conger (Linnaeus, 1758) — European conger Family Nemichthyidae

Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson, 1848 — Slender snipe eel

Family Serrivomeridae

Serrivomer beanii Gill & Ryder, 1883 — Bean's sawtoothed eel

Family Nettastomatidae

Nettastoma melanurum Rafinesque, 1810 — Blackfin sorcerer

Not mentioned for Galicia by Saldanha in Whitehead et al. (1986). Recorded by Bañón et al. (1997) based on six specimens caught between 806 and 1139 m depth.

Facciolella oxyrhyncha (Bellotti, 1883) — Facciola's sorcerer

One specimen of 56 cm TL caught during the survey “Demersales 06” at 436 m depth.