Talk:Anguilliformes

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umm, this article was apparently written by a "foody" or a fisherman. It would be nice if a bioligist wrote it.

I agree, but then again the foodies and fishermen might be wishing us biologists would keep out of their articles ^^'

1 Myth Busters
2 Cleanup needed
3 Work needed
4 Classification
5 As food
6 Unadon
7 Eel porn

[edit] Myth Busters

Can we lose this part about electric eels? Its problematic because electric eels aren't even eels, and it doesn't seem to add much. I think a brief note linking to electric eels might be nice though...69.2.241.27 15:15, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup needed

Much of this article has been merged from the Eel story article. While written mostly by an expert (User:Kils is an oceanographer), this needs a thorough work-over. (See also Talk:Eel story.)

It needs more references.
Grammar check and improvements
The video is linked twice, once in the intro and once further down.
The "How to catch" section should go, IMHO.

Just as an example, let's take the following paragraph (my comments are in italics):

He—like Schmidt—kept on trying to persuade sponsors to give again. (give what? money, supposedly, but this sentence doesn't parse.) His proposal was to release 50 Silver Eels from Danish waters with probes that would detach from the eels each second day, float up and broadcast position, depth and temperature to satellite receivers, possibly jointly with an equivalent release experiment from the countries of the western coast of the Atlantic (I suppose that means the U.S., and maybe Canada? And was that experiment carried out or not?) So today our knowledge on the fate of the eels once they leave the continental shelf is based on three eels found in the stomachs of deep sea fish, a whale caught off Ireland and off the Azores and some experiments on fife eels.(Oh yeah? Sources desperately needed.)

Lupo 07:28, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Another point: We have doubled interwiki links, some going to the equivalent of Eel, and some going to Anguilliformes, which here on en: is a redirect to Eel. Some reorganization seems in order. Lupo 07:32, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Work needed

I un-merged Eel story as there wasn't much point in an article that was obviously going nowhere and posted as needing cleanup. The former eel story is now at the title it probably should have always had, eel reproduction. This article needs to decide if it is going to be about all of the Anguilliformes, or about the Anguillidae. That decision - what do we mean when we say "eel" - needs to be made first, then we are in a position to start improving things. Notice that the failed merge was very clearly from an Anguillidae-only position. Tannin 10:08, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I sent the article to eel experts - got some nice responses - will work that in soon Uwe Kils 02:01, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

Garden eel?

[edit] Classification

Hello. I understand that this article uses the families listed at FishBase, but what of the placement of families into sub-orders - can anyone give a reference for that? Fish base doesn't seem to cover sub-orders? ThanksHappyVR 15:27, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm guessing it's from ITIS but that site seems to be impossible to access the last few days or so.HappyVR 15:30, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] As food

The food section really sucked in terms of wording, so I've fixed it a bit and also added a reference to the famous jellied eels. --JonAyling 21:39, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unadon

It seems a little misleading to say that Unadon is "rather expensive". It is slightly more expensive, but not as much as a rare delicacy like fugu. When I've been in restaurants in Tokyo, I recall that Unadon was perhaps 1300 yen, whereas gyudon might be 950 yen. So it was like $11 versus $8. I would substitute "slightly more expensive" or "somewhat more expensive". "Rather expensive" sounds like it's priced like a delicacy eaten only rarely. Most Japanese could eat Unadon several times a week if they wanted to. It's only a few more bucks each lunch. Westwind273 11:46, 25 November 2006 (UTC)