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Actinopterygii

(Subclass)

Overview

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Taxonomy

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The Subclass Actinopterygii is a member of the Class Osteichthyes. Here is the complete "parentage" of Actinopterygii:

The Subclass Actinopterygii is further organized into finer groupings including:

Orders

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Acipenseriformes

Albuliformes

A Order in the Kingdom Animalia.[1] [more]

Amiiformes

Anguilliformes

Aspidorhynchiformes

[more]

Ateleopodiformes

The jellynose fishes or tadpole fishes are the small order Ateleopodiformes. This group of ray-finned fish is monotypic, containing a single family Ateleopodidae. It has about one dozen species in four genera, but these enigmatic fishes are in need of taxonomic revision.  [more]

Atheriniformes

Aulopiformes

Batrachoidiformes

A Order in the Kingdom Animalia.[2] [more]

Beloniformes

Beryciformes

A Order in the Kingdom Animalia.[3] [more]

Characiformes

Clupeiformes

Cypriniformes

Cyprinodontiformes

Dactylopteriformes

Dactylopteriformes is an order of bony fish. [more]

Elopiformes

A Order in the Kingdom Animalia.[4] [more]

Esociformes

Esociformes is a small order of ray-finned fish, with two families, the Umbridae (mudminnows) and the Esocidae (pikes). The pikes of genus Esox give the order its name. There are ten species ? five in each family. [more]

Gadiformes

Gasterosteiformes

Gobiesociformes

A Order in the Kingdom Animalia.[5] [more]

Gonorynchiformes

A Order in the Kingdom Animalia.[6] [more]

Gymnotiformes

A Order in the Kingdom Animalia.[7] [more]

Hiodontiformes

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Ichthyodectiformes

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Ionoscopiformes

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Lampriformes

A Order in the Kingdom Animalia.[8] [more]

Lepisosteiformes

A Order in the Kingdom Animalia.[9] [more]

Leptolepidiformes

[more]

Lophiiformes

Lycopteriformes

[more]

Macrosemiiformes

[more]

Myctophiformes

A Order in the Kingdom Animalia.[10] [more]

Notacanthiformes

A Order in the Kingdom Animalia.[11] [more]

Ophidiiformes

A Order in the Kingdom Animalia.[12] [more]

Osteoglossiformes

Pachycormiformes

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Palaeonisciformes

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Parasemionotiformes

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Perciformes

Percopsiformes

Platysomiformes

[more]

Pleuronectiformes

A Order in the Kingdom Animalia.[13] [more]

Polymixiiformes

The beardfishes are a small family (Polymixiidae) of deep-sea marine ray-finned fish named for their pair of long hyoid barbels. They have little economic importance. [more]

Polypteriformes

A Order in the Kingdom Animalia.[14] [more]

Pycnodontiformes

[more]

Redfieldiformes

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Saccopharyngiformes

A Order in the Kingdom Animalia.[15] [more]

Salmoniformes

Scorpaeniformes

Semionotiformes

Semionotiformes ("flag-back form") is an order of primitive, ray-finned, primarily freshwater fish from the Triassic to the Cretaceous. The most well-known genus is Semionotus of Europe and North America. [more]

Siluriformes

Stomiiformes

A Order in the Kingdom Animalia.[16] [more]

Synbranchiformes

Syngnathiformes

A Order in the Kingdom Animalia.[17] [more]

Tetraodontiformes

Zeiformes

A Order in the Kingdom Animalia.[18] [more]

At least 88 species and subspecies belong to the Order Zeiformes.

More info about the Order Zeiformes may be found here.

Bibliography

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Footnotes

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  1. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=113878
  2. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=113883
  3. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=113885
  4. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=113895
  5. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=113898
  6. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=113899
  7. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=113900
  8. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=113904
  9. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=113906
  10. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=113908
  11. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=113910
  12. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=113911
  13. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=113917
  14. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=113918
  15. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=113922
  16. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=113928
  17. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=113930
  18. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=113933

Sources

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Last Revised: April 06, 2012
2012/04/06 03:07:59