muraenid

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Noun

muraenid (plural muraenids)

  1. (zoology) Any eel in the family Muraenidae.
    • 1993, James E. Böhlke, Charles C. G. Chaplin, Fishes of the Bahamas and Adjacent Tropical Waters, page 70:
      The posterior nostril in xenocongrids lies immediately before the center of the eye, on the outside of the upper lip, or inside the confines of the mouth; in the muraenids, it nearly always lies above the eye.