Actinopteri - Anguilliformes - Congridae
Parent taxon: Anguilliformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Bannikov 2014, Carnevale et al. 2014, Casier 1966, Ebersole et al. 2019, Frizzell and Dante 1965, Gaemers 1984, Jordan 1963, Lin et al. 2017, Nelson et al. 2016, Nolf and Dockery 1993, Nolf and Dockery 1990, Purdy et al. 2001, Schwarzhans 1978, Schwarzhans 2003, Schwarzhans 2007, Schwarzhans and Bratischko 2011 and Weems 1999
Sister taxa: Abisaadia, Anguillidae, Anguilloidei, Anguilloididae, Bolcanguilla, Brannerion, Casierius, Chlopsoidei, Congermuraena, Congroidea, Congroidei, Eodiaphyodus, Eomuraena, Eomyrophis, Eurypharyngidae, Gazolapodus, Hayenchelys, Heterenchelyidae, Hoplunnis, Japonoconger, Lemkea, Leptocephalus, Libanechelyidae, Luenchelys, Micromyrus, Milananguillidae, Moringuoidei, Muraenesocidae, Muraenidae, Muraenoidei, Mylomyrus, Myroconger, Nemichthyidae, Ophichthidae, Palaeomyrus, Paranguillidae, Parechelus, Patavichthyidae, Proserrivomer, Protanguilloidei, Proteomyridae, Rhynchocymba, Saccopharyngidae, Saccopharyngoidei, Synaphobranchoidei, Urenchelyidae, Urenchelys, Mastygocercus, Archencheli, Colocephali, Enchelycephali, Echelidae, Lyomeri, Carencheli
Subtaxa: Ariosoma Ariosominae Astroconger Bassanago Bathycongrus Bathymyrinae Blachea Bolcyrus Conger Congridarum Congrinae Gnathophis Gorgasia Heteroconger Heterocongrinae Maxwelliella Mystriophis Notoconger Paraconger Paracongroides Promyllantor Pseudophichthys Pseudoxenomystax Rhechias Rhynchoconger Scalanago Tonganago Uroconger Voltaconger Xenomystax
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Haweran of New Zealand (2 collections)
• Quaternary of Greece (4), Italy (1), New Zealand (7), United States (1: Louisiana)
• Mangapanian of New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Australia (2), Ecuador (1), Greece (2), Italy (3), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (2), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene of Australia (8), Belgium (1), the Czech Republic (3), France (4), Germany (1), Greece (2), Italy (4), Mexico (1), New Zealand (43), Panama (4), Slovakia (1), Venezuela (1)
• Neogene of Indonesia (2)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (9)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Greece (1), New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (3), Belgium (1), France (2), Germany (1), Hungary (3), Japan (1), New Zealand (9), United States (5: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Australia (1), Belgium (1), France (8), Germany (1), India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), New Zealand (15), the United Kingdom (8), United States (14: California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia)
• Tertiary of United States (1: Mississippi)
• Paleocene of Denmark (4), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Alabama)
Total: 198 collections including 365 occurrences