{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|50|49|Early Eocene<ref name="sepkoskidb">{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |accessdate=2009-02-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2011-07-23 }}</ref>}} | image = Anguilloides branchiostegalis.jpg | image_caption = | taxon = Anguilloides branchiostegalis | authority = (Eastman, 1905) | parent_authority = Cadrobbi, 1962 }}
'''''Anguilloides''''' is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine eel that lived in the early Eocene. It contains a single species, '''''A. branchiostegalis'''''. Fossils are known from the famous Monte Bolca site of Italy.<ref name="sepkoskidb">{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |accessdate=2009-02-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2011-07-23 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Pfaff |first1=Cathrin |last2=Zorzin |first2=Roberto |last3=Kriwet |first3=Jürgen |date=2016-08-11 |title=Evolution of the locomotory system in eels (Teleostei: Elopomorpha) |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=159 |doi=10.1186/s12862-016-0728-7 |doi-access=free |issn=1471-2148 |pmc=4981956 |pmid=27514517|bibcode=2016BMCEE..16..159P }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Carnevale |first1=G. |last2=Bannikov |first2=Alexandre F. |last3=Marramà |first3=G. |last4=Tyler |first4=James C. |last5=Zorzin. |first5=R. |date=2014 |title=The Bolca Fossil-Lagerstätte: A window into the Eocene World. 5. The Pesciara- Monte Postale Fossil-Lagerstätte: 2. Fishes and other vertebrates. Excursion guide |url=https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/149338/1/Carnevale%20et%20al%202014%20The%20Pesciara%20F-L.%20Fishes%20and%20other%20vertebrates2.pdf |journal=Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=i–xxvii |hdl=10088/25678}}</ref>
It is one of two genera in the extinct family Anguilloididae alongside ''Veronanguilla''. The family is thought to represent a basal member of the suborder Anguilloidei.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35347 |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Paleontology|Fish}} * Prehistoric fish * List of prehistoric bony fish
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Taxonbar|from=Q124633409}} Category:Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera †
{{paleo-bony-fish-stub}} {{anguilliformes-stub}} Category:Fossils of Italy Category:Ypresian genera Category:Eocene fish of Europe Category:Fossil taxa described in 1962