Elopidae

The Elopidae are an ancient family of ray-finned fish, one of two living members of the order Elopiformes. They containing a single living genus, Elops, and many extinct genera dating back to the Late Jurassic, when the earliest stem-group elopids are known. They appear to have diverged from their closest relatives, the Megalopidae, during the Jurassic.''

==Etymology== The name comes from the Ancient Greek (élops), variant of (éllops), referring to a kind of serpent or serpentlike sea fish. Compare the name of the unrelated family Elapidae.