Moroniformes

Moroniformes
Striped bass (Morone saxatilis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Clade: Percomorpha
Order: Moroniformes
Families

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Moroniformes is an order of ray-finned fishes in the series Percomorpha.

Families

Moroniformes comprises three families according to the 5th edition of the Fishes of the World:[1][2]

Classification

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] Later authors recognise that two of the families, the Ephippidae and the Drepaneidae are closely related and classified in the order Ephippiformes but that Moronidae is incertae sedis in their series Eupercaria.[3] Other authorities classify all three families in the Moroniformes sensu Fishes of the World in the Acanthuriformes.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 495–497. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
  2. ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
  3. ^ Ricardo Betancur-R; Edward O. Wiley; Gloria Arratia; et al. (2017). "Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (162). doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3. PMC 5501477.
  4. ^ Ron Fricke; William Eschmeyer; and Jon David Fong (2020). "GENERA/SPECIES BY FAMILY/SUBFAMILY IN Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes". Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes.