Anguillidac 



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two from the Atlantic, of which the American Eel ranges from 

 Greenland to the Antilles. 



Fig. 13. — Metamorphosis of Eel, from Leptocephalus to Elyeb. 



(After Johs. Schmidt.) 



36. Eel, AnguiUa anguilla. — This species ranges from Iceland 

 and Scandinavia to the Azores and Morocco : it inhabits the 



