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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Ray-finned Fishes
  5. Tarpons, Eels, and Allies

superorder

Tarpons, Eels, and Allies

Elopomorpha

Includes
19 native 28 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • True Eels 15 native
  • Tarpons and Tenpounders 2 native
  • Bonefishes 2 native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native tarpons, eels, and allies All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • American Eel Anguilla rostrata 4,485 observations
  • Whitemouth Moray Gymnothorax meleagris 2,708 observations
  • Ladyfish Elops saurus 1,658 observations
  • California Moray Gymnothorax mordax 847 observations
  • Common Bonefish Albula vulpes 492 observations
  • American Conger Conger oceanicus 138 observations
  • Hawaiian Mustache Conger Conger marginatus 128 observations
  • Speckled Worm Eel Myrophis punctatus 122 observations
  • Yellow Garden Eel Heteroconger luteolus 69 observations
  • Freckled Snake Eel Callechelys lutea 55 observations
  • Pacific Snake Eel Ophichthus triserialis 52 observations
  • Hawaiian Garden Eel Gorgasia hawaiiensis 31 observations
  • Nutting's Moray Gymnothorax nuttingi 3 observations

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