Nelson, J.S., 1994

Saccopharyngiformes swallowers and gulpers

Teleostei

Anguilliformes 85 M years

Forey, P., D. Littlewood, P. Ritchie and A. Meyer, 1996  |  Carroll, R., 1988

middle Cretaceous

Marine

Fresh

Brackish

Highly aberrant fishes, lacking symplectic bone, opercular bones, branchiostegal rays, scales, pelvic fins, ribs, pyloric caeca, and swim bladder; caudal fin absent or rudimentary; gill openings ventral; dorsal and anal fins long; jaws and hyomandibular greatly elongate, attached to neurocranium by only one condyle; leptocephalous larvae deep-bodied with myomeres V-shaped and not W-shaped. Like anguilliforms, they may spawn once and die.

Greek aktis = ray, thunderbolt, beam + Greek pterygion, diminutive of pteryx = wing, fin. Ref. 45335.

Latin, saccus = sack + Greek, pharyngx = pharynx + Greek, morphe = shape (Ref. 45335).

( n = 5 )
Cyematidae Eurypharyngidae Monognathidae Neocyematidae Saccopharyngidae

Ref.
[ e.g. 9948 ]      

Glossary
      [ e.g. oophagy ]