Percoidei
| Percoidei | |
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| Girella fimbriata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Suborder: | Percoidei |
| Superfamilies | |
Percoidei is one of 18 suborders of bony fishes in the order Perciformes. Many commercially harvested fish species are contained in this suborder, including the snappers, jacks, whitings, groupers, basses, perches, and porgies.
Divisions
The Percoidei are further divided into three superfamilies which contain over 50 families and hundreds of genera.
- Superfamily Percoidea
- Acropomatidae (temperate ocean-basses)
- Ambassidae (Asiatic glassfishes)
- Apogonidae (cardinalfishes)
- Arripidae (Australasian salmon)
- Banjosidae
- Bathyclupeidae
- Bramidae (pomfrets)
- Caesionidae (fusiliers)
- Callanthiidae
- Carangidae (jacks, pompanos)
- Caristiidae (manefishes)
- Centracanthidae
- Centrarchidae (freshwater sunfishes)
- Centropomidae (snooks)
- Chaetodontidae (butterflyfishes)
- Coryphaenidae (dolphinfishes)
- Datnioididae
- Dichistiidae (galjoen fishes)
- Dinolestidae (long-finned pike)
- Dinopercidae
- Drepaneidae
- Echeneidae (remoras)
- Emmelichthyidae (rovers)
- Enoplosidae (oldwife)
- Epigonidae (deepwater cardinalfishes)
- Gerreidae (mojarras)
- Glaucosomatidae (pearl perches)
- Grammatidae (basslets)
- Haemulidae (grunts)
- Howellidae (oceanic basslets)
- Inermiidae (bonnetmouths)
- Kuhliidae (flagtails or aholeholes)
- Kyphosidae (sea chubs)
- Lactariidae (false trevallies)
- Lateolabracidae
- Latidae
- Leiognathidae (ponyfishes)
- Leptobramidae (beachsalmon)
- Lethrinidae
- Lobotidae (tripletails)
- Lutjanidae (snappers, fusiliers)
- Malacanthidae (Tilefishes)
- Menidae (moonfish)
- Monodactylidae (moonyfishes)
- Moronidae (temperate basses)
- Mullidae (goatfishes)
- Nandidae (leaffishes)
- Nematistiidae (roosterfish)
- Nemipteridae (threadfin breams)
- Notograptidae
- Opistognathidae (jawfishes)
- Oplegnathidae (knifejaws)
- Ostracoberycidae
- Pempheridae (sweepers)
- Pentacerotidae (armorheads)
- Percichthyidae (Temperate perches)
- Percidae (perches and darters)
- Plesiopidae
- Polycentridae
- Polynemidae (threadfins)
- Polyprionidae (wreckfishes)
- Pomacanthidae (angelfishes)
- Pomatomidae (bluefishes)
- Priacanthidae (bigeyes, catalufas)
- Pseudochromidae (dottybacks)
- Rachycentridae (cobia)
- Sciaenidae (drums)
- Scombropidae (gnomefish)
- Serranidae (sea basses, groupers)
- Sillaginidae (whitings et al.)
- Sparidae (porgies)
- Symphysanodontidae
- Terapontidae (grunters or tigerperches)
- Toxotidae (archerfishes)
- Superfamily Cirrhitoidea
- Superfamily Cepoloidea
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Percoidei.
- ^ Labrax at Fossilworks.org