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Percomorpha (from Latin perca 'perch' and Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ) 'shape, appearance') is a large clade of ray-finned fish with more than 17 000 known species that includes the tuna, seahorses, gobies, cichlids, flatfish, wrasse, perches, anglerfish, and pufferfish.
Perciformes Temporal range: Early Paleocene–recent PreꞒ Ꞓ 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 ...
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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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Ovalentaria is a clade of ray-finned fishes within the Percomorpha, referred to as a subseries.It is made up of a group of fish families which are referred to in Fishes of the World's fifth edition as incertae sedis, as well as the orders Mugiliformes, Cichliformes, and Blenniiformes.
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]
The Neoteleostei is a large clade of bony fish mostly consisting of marine clades. Only three lineages have freshwater species: Percopsiformes (Troutperches), which lives exclusively in freshwater, [1] Gadiformes (cods), which is largely marine except from burbot that live in freshwater and a few populations of cod in brackish water, [2] [3] and the Percomorpha, which in addition to several ...