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Family: | Paranguillidae
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Genus: | †Paranguilla Bleeker, 1864
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Species: | †P. tigrina
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Paranguilla tigrina Bleeker, 1864
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Paranguilla tigrina is an extinct prehistoric eel that lived during the Lutetian epoch of the Eocene, in what is now Monte Bolca.[1]
Some of the better preserved fossils show that the living animals had complex patterns of spots. P. tigrina and Dalpiazella brevicauda constitute the extinct family Paranguillidae.