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Percomorpha (from Latin perca ' perch ' and Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ) ' shape, appearance ') is an extremely large and diverse clade of ray-finned fish.With more than 17,000 known species (including tuna, seahorses, gobies, cichlids, flatfish, wrasse, perches, anglerfish, and pufferfish) known from both marine and freshwater ecosystems, it is the most speciose clade of extant ...
Perciformes (/ ˈ p ɜːr s ɪ ˌ f ɔːr m iː z /), also called the Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish in the clade Percomorpha. Perciformes means "perch-like".". Among the well-known members of this group are perches and darters (), and also sea basses and groupers
Scombriformes, also known as Pelagia and Pelagiaria, is an order of ray-finned fish within the clade Percomorpha. [1] [2] [3] It contains 287 extant species in 16 families, most of which were previously classified under the suborders Scombroidei and Stromateoidei of the order Perciformes.
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Moroniformes is classified as an order within the series Percomorpha in the 5th edition of Fishes of the World but the authors of that text acknowledge that their classification of the order is rather tentative. [1]
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Spariformes was first used as a taxonomic term in 1860 by the Dutch physician, herpetologist and ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker. [1] Traditionally the taxa within the Spariformes were classified within the Perciformes, with some authorities using the term "Sparoid lineage" for the families Centracanthidae, Nemipteridae, Lethrinidae and Sparidae. [2]