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minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·28 days agoIt looks like other eels don’t necessarily follow the mostly tail body plan of electric eels; morays seem to be less than 50% tail by length
minus-squaresomebodysomewhere@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·28 days agothat would be because electric eels are fish, not eels. On my phone but see phylogeny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_eel
minus-squarezeekaran@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·27 days ago This order is more closely related to catfish. Catfished again!
It looks like other eels don’t necessarily follow the mostly tail body plan of electric eels; morays seem to be less than 50% tail by length
that would be because electric eels are fish, not eels.
On my phone but see phylogeny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_eel
Catfished again!