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Pages in category "Fish superorders" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Acanthopterygii;
Order Perciformes 40% of all fish including anabantids, centrarchids (incl. bass and sunfish), cichlids, gobies, gouramis, mackerel, perches, scats, whiting, wrasses Class Sarcopterygii : Lobe-finned fish
Fishes are a paraphyletic group and for this reason, the class Pisces seen in older reference works is no longer used in formal taxonomy.Traditional classification divides fish into three extant classes (Agnatha, Chondrichthyes, and Osteichthyes), and with extinct forms sometimes classified within those groups, sometimes as their own classes: [1]
Order (Latin: ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class . In biological classification , the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and recognized by the nomenclature codes .
Ostariophysi is the second-largest superorder of fish.Members of this superorder are called ostariophysians.This diverse group contains 10,758 species, about 28% of known fish species in the world and 68% of freshwater species, and are present on all continents except Antarctica.
[1] [2] [3] The first version was published in 2013 and resolved 66 orders. [2] The latest version (version 4) was published in 2017 and recognised 72 orders and 79 suborders. [ 3 ]
Perciformes Temporal range: Early Paleocene–recent Pre๊ ๊ O S D C P T J K Pg N Dusky grouper (Epinephelus marginatus) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Clade: Percomorpha Order: Perciformes Bleeker, 1863 Type species Perca fluviatilis Linnaeus, 1758 Suborders See text Perciformes, also called the Acanthopteri, is an order ...
Class Chondrichthyes (cartilagineous fish - sharks and rays) Class Osteichthyes (bony fish), which has two subclasses: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish) Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish) Full details of higher order fish taxonomy can be found in the Chordata article.