Centropomoidei
| Centropomoidei Temporal range: | |
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| Snooks, Centropomus sp. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Suborder: | Centropomoidei Girard et al., 2020 |
| Families | |
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Centropomoidei is a suborder of marine and freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the order Carangiformes. Its families were previously placed elsewhere, but more recent studies have found them to form a distinct clade within the Carangiformes, as the most basal members of the order.[1][2][3]
Taxonomy
[edit]Suborder Centropomoidei
- Family Latidae Jordan 1888 (giant perches)
- Family Centropomidae Poey 1967 (snooks)
- Family Lactariidae Boulenger 1904 (false trevallies)
- Family Sphyraenidae Rafinesque 1815 (barracudas)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Girard, Matthew G.; Davis, Matthew P.; Smith, W. Leo (2020-05-08). "The Phylogeny of Carangiform Fishes: Morphological and Genomic Investigations of a New Fish Clade". Copeia. 108 (2): 265. doi:10.1643/CI-19-320. ISSN 0045-8511.
- ↑ "BioLib: Biological library". www.biolib.cz (in Czech). Archived from the original on 2022-07-06. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
- ↑ "Centropomoidei | Overview | Finnish Biodiversity Info Facility". laji.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2024-12-29.
