muraenid
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]muraenid (plural muraenids)
- (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.