Acanthopterygii
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| Labidesthes sicculus | |
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| Group of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in Italy | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Acanthomorpha |
| Superorder: | Acanthopterygii Rosen & Patterson, 1969 |
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Acanthopterygii (meaning "spiny-finned one") is a superorder of bony fishes in the class Actinopterygii. Members of this superorder are sometimes called ray-finned fishes for the characteristic sharp, bony rays in their fins; however this name is often given to the class Actinopterygii as a whole.
The suborder includes the berycids and their allies, but by far the largest member of the group is the Percomorpha, the most diverse vertebrate clade.
Taxonomy
[edit]The following taxonomy is based on ECoF (2025), with subseries based on earlier studies:[1][2][3]
- Series Berycida
- Order Trachichthyiformes, including pineconefishes, slimeheads & fangtooths
- Order Beryciformes
- Suborder Holocentroidei, squirrelfish & soldierfish
- Suborder Berycoidei, alfonsinos & berycids
- Suborder Stephanoberycoidei, pricklefishes, whalefishes & gibberfishes
- Series Percomorpha
- Subseries Ophidiida
- Order Ophidiiformes, including cusk-eels, brotulas & pearlfishes
- Subseries Batrachoidida
- Order Batrachoidiformes, toadfishes
- Subseries Gobiida
- Order Kurtiformes, nurseryfishes & cardinalfishes
- Order Gobiiformes, gobies, sleepers & allies
- Subseries Pelagiaria
- Order Scombriformes, mackerels, tuna, bluefishes, ragfishes, pomfrets, cutlassfish, swallowers, medusafish, & allies
- Subseries Syngnatharia
- Order Syngnathiformes, seahorses, pipefishes, trumpetfishes, goatfishes, gurnards, seamoths & allies
- Subseries Anabantaria
- Order Anabantiformes, including labyrinth fishes, snakeheads & badids
- Order Synbranchiformes, including the swamp eels
- Subseries Carangaria
- Order Carangiformes, including jacks, flatfish, barracudas, billfish, & allies
- Subseries Ovalentaria
- Order Atheriniformes, including silversides and rainbowfishes
- Order Beloniformes, including the flyingfishes, ricefish, needlefishes & halfbeaks
- Order Cyprinodontiformes, including livebearers, killifishes, rivulines & pupfishes
- Order Cichliformes, cichlids, leaffishes & convict blenny
- Order Mugiliformes, mullets & Asiatic glassfish
- Order Blenniiformes, including blennies, clingfishes, dottybacks, jawfishes, damselfishes & anemonefishes
- Subseries Eupercaria
- Order Perciformes, including groupers, perches, darters, notothens, flatheads, searobins, scorpionfish, sculpins, sticklebacks, eelpouts & allies
- Order Centrarchiformes, including temperate perch, knifejaws, sea chubs, freshwater sunfish, hawkfishes & allies
- Order Labriformes, including wrasses, sandlances, stargazers & allies
- Order Acropomatiformes, including lanternbellies, gnomefishes, wreckfishes, banjofish, oceanic basslets, armorheads & allies
- Order Acanthuriformes, including surgeonfishes, butterflyfishes, rabbitfishes, marine angelfishes, drumfish, grunts, ponyfishes, mojarras, snappers, temperate basses, spadefishes, porgies, scats, bigeyes, boarfishes & allies
- Order Lophiiformes, anglerfishes
- Order Tetraodontiformes, including the filefishes, pufferfishes, porcupinefishes, triggerfishes, boxfishes, and ocean sunfish
- Subseries Ophidiida
Phylogeny
[edit]The cladogram is based on Near et al., 2012[4] and Betancur-Rodriguez et al. 2016.[5]
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References
[edit]- ^ Fricke, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Van der Laan, R. (2025). "ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2025-02-10.
- ^ Sanciangco, Millicent D.; Carpenter, Kent E.; Betancur-R., Ricardo (2016-01-01). "Phylogenetic placement of enigmatic percomorph families (Teleostei: Percomorphaceae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 94: 565–576. Bibcode:2016MolPE..94..565S. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.10.006. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 26493227.
- ^ Nelson, Joseph S.; Grande, Terry C.; Wilson, Mark V. H. (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons. doi:10.1002/9781119174844. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
- ^ Thomas J. Near; et al. (2012). "Resolution of ray-finned fish phylogeny and timing of diversification". PNAS. 109 (34): 13698–13703. Bibcode:2012PNAS..10913698N. doi:10.1073/pnas.1206625109. PMC 3427055. PMID 22869754.
- ^ Betancur-Rodriguez; et al. (2016). "Phylogenetic Classification of Bony Fishes Version 4". Deepfin. Archived from the original on 11 July 2017. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
- ^ Davis, Matthew P.; Sparks, John S.; Smith, W. Leo (8 June 2016). "Repeated and Widespread Evolution of Bioluminescence in Marine Fishes". PLOS One. 11 (6): e0155154. Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1155154D. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0155154. PMC 4898709. PMID 27276229.
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