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    Percomorpha (from Latin perca 'perch' and Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ) 'shape, appearance') is an extremely large and diverse clade of ray-finned fish...
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    Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish in the clade Percomorpha. Perciformes means "perch-like". Among the well-known members of this...
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  • name shared by many species of ray-finned fish from the large clade Percomorpha, mainly belonging to the orders Perciformes and Moroniformes, encompassing...
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    Cetomimiformes) Subdivision Percomorphaceae Betancur-Rodriguez et al. 2013 (Percomorpha sensu Miya et al. 2003; Acanthopteri) Series Ophidiimopharia Betancur-Rodriguez...
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    and their allies, but by far the largest member of the group is the Percomorpha, the most diverse vertebrate clade. The following taxonomy is based on...
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    Pelagia and Pelagiaria, is an order of ray-finned fish within the clade Percomorpha. It contains 287 extant species in 16 families, most of which were previously...
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    ray-finned fish during the Jurassic, while cusk-eels are part of the Percomorpha clade, along with tuna, perch, seahorses, and others. The oldest fossil...
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    Carangiformes is a large, diverse order of ray-finned fishes within the clade Percomorpha. It is part of a sister clade to the Ovalentaria, alongside its sister...
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    family Trachinidae in the order Perciformes, part of the wider clade Percomorpha. They are long (up to 37 cm), mainly brown in color, and have venomous...
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    Moroniformes is an order of ray-finned fishes in the series Percomorpha. Moroniformes comprises three families according to the 5th edition of the Fishes...
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    Taxonomy of Flatheads, Scorpionfishes, Sea Robins, and Stonefishes (Percomorpha: Scorpaeniformes) and the Evolution of the Lachrymal Saber". Copeia....
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    in the order Blenniiformes within the series Ovalentaria, part of the Percomorpha . Temperate blennies, the family ranges from the Atlantic, Pacific, and...
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  • The Eocene-aged Monte Bolca fossil site near Verona, Italy was one of the first lagerstatte to be discovered to science, and still has one of the most...
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    Pempheriformes are an order of fish from the group of perch relatives Percomorpha. The relationship of the families assigned to the Acropomatiformes is...
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    order of ray-finned fishes consisting of six families within the series Percomorpha. Spariformes was first used as a taxonomic term in 1860 by the Dutch...
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    Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Clade: Percomorpha Order: Lophiiformes Sedgwick et. al., 1905 Type species Lophius piscatorius...
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  • Long Island Sound is a large marine estuary in the Northeastern United States. It forms the maritime border between the states of New York and Connecticut...
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    Lampriformes Percopsiformes Polymixiiformes Gadiformes Zeiformes Trachichthyiformes Beryciformes Percomorpha...
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    Acanthuriformes (category Percomorpha)
    large, diverse order of mostly marine ray-finned fishes, part of the Percomorpha clade. In the past, members of this clade were placed in the suborders...
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    Gobioidei (category Percomorpha)
    World this suborder is elevated to an order Gobiiformes within the clade Percomorpha. In the most recent taxonomic treatment, they are again placed as the...
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    the subseries Ovalentaria, which in turn is ranked within the wider Percomorpha clade. The species within the infraseries Atherinomorpha are generally...
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    (2016-09-01). "Oligoremora rhenana n. g. n. sp., a new echeneid fish (Percomorpha, Echeneoidei) from the Oligocene of the Grube Unterfeld ("Frauenweiler")...
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    Lampriformes Percopsiformes Polymixiiformes Gadiformes Zeiformes Trachichthyiformes Beryciformes Percomorpha...
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    Batrachoididae (category Percomorpha families)
    T.; Carnevale, G. (2017-03-31). "An Oligocene toadfish (Teleostei, Percomorpha) from Moravia, Czech Republic: The earliest skeletal record for the order...
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    Nishida, M. (2014): Revision of the systematics of the cardinalfishes (Percomorpha: Apogonidae) based on molecular analyses and comparative reevaluation...
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    meant that the Spariformes is recognised as a valid order within the Percomorpha containing six families, with Callanthidae, Sillaginidae and Lobotidae...
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    the teleosts). The most diverse group of teleost fish today are the Percomorpha, which include, among others, the tuna, seahorses, gobies, cichlids,...
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    Tetraodontidae (category Percomorpha families)
    Tetraodontidae is a family of marine and freshwater fish in the order Tetraodontiformes. The family includes many familiar species variously called pufferfish...
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    in freshwater and a few populations of cod in brackish water, and the Percomorpha, which, in addition to several marine groups, also have many freshwater...
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    order within the Actinopterygii and as a monophyletic order within the Percomorpha. Other authorities have proposed that it is not an order but that it...
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