Eoanguilla

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Eoanguilla
Temporal range: Early Eocene [1]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Anguillidae
Genus: Eoanguilla
Blot, 1978
Species:
E. leptoptera
Binomial name
Eoanguilla leptoptera
(Agassiz, 1835)
Synonyms
  • Anguilla leptopteraAgassiz, 1835

Eoanguilla ("dawn Anguilla ") is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine eel that lived during the early Eocene. [1] It contains a single species, E. leptoptera from the Ypresian-aged Monte Bolca site of Italy. It is thought to have been an early marine relative of the modern freshwater eels (genus Anguilla). [2] [3] [4]

It was first described in error as a fossil specimen of the European conger (then treated as Muraena conger) by Volta in 1796. It was later reclassified into Anguilla by Agassiz as its relationship to that genus was determined, and reclassified into its own genus over a century later. [4] [5]

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  5. Geology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of; Woodward, Arthur Smith (1901). Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini. order of the Trustees.