Family Anguillidae Rafinesque 1810

Anguillidi Rafinesque 1810b:37 [ref. 3595] (ordine) Anguilla [latinized to Anguillinia by Rafinesque 1815:91 [ref. 3584] (subfamily); latinized to Anguilliformes by Jarocki 1822:326, 343 [ref. 4984] (family); considered valid with this authorship by Gill 1893b:132 [ref. 26255], by Nolf 1985:41 [ref. 32698], by Patterson 1993:626 [ref. 32940] and by Sheiko 2013:28 [ref. 32944] Article 11.7.2]]