Close relations with those anguilidos, they are easily distinguished being given which the upper jaw exceeds the inferior. Without escamas in its body and with eyes of remarkable intelligence; they in their librea gray tone more or less obscure with the dorsal and anal aileron bordered in black. Its jaw is feared, since the prisoner that it exerts is of an incredible force. Very resistant to the death by it asphyxiates and with the wounds, it can support several hours out of water with most of its intact vitality.

The captures large of sea eels gets moments of large excitation since its pricked, abrupt and supported, just like its resistance to be left water test equipment and nerves. We will be worth ourselves of their inclin natural acion to avoid the edge and to gain meters to weaken it gradually; only when animal silk we can irntenta approach it at the edge the undertow of the waves. If the weight of the mimo is large, they would be usually blocked in the fine sand of the edge, where it would test while grinding on itself, to break our sedales. We will usually run up with them in rock or mixed zones, and even in great beaches at the time of the doubt of low tide, when large specimens give up rock zones for deambular in search for captures and carroña within the limit of the sudden rise. Its captures occur normally in night fishing, although it is not strange to run up against us with them in piers and ports even of day. Very voracious, and especially friendly of the white starters like the squid and the small cuttlefish, which it devours with speed.