Percomorpha

The Percomorpha include many economically important fish including the mackerel.

The Percomorpha is a large clade of bony fish that includes the tuna, seahorses, gobies, cichlids, flatfish, wrasse, perches, anglerfish, and pufferfish.[1][2][3]

Evolution

The cladogram is based on Near et al., 2012.[1]

Percomorpha

Ophidiiformes (cusk-eels)




Batrachoididae (toadfishes)





Scombroidei (tunas, mackerel)



Syngnathiformes (seahorses)





Gobiiformes (gobies)





Blennioidei, Cichlidae, Atherinomorpha



Carangiformes (jacks, flatfish, billfish)





Labridae (wrasses)





Centrarchiformes (blackbasses, temperate perches)



Perciformes (perches, seabasses, sticklebacks, etc)





Acanthuroidei (surgeonfishes), Leiognathidae (ponyfishes), Chaetodontidae (butterflyfishes)




Siganidae (rabbitfishes), Scatophagidae (scats)




Lophiiformes (anglerfishes)



Tetraodontiformes (pufferfishes)












References

  1. 1 2 Thomas J. Near; et al. (2012). "Resolution of ray-finned fish phylogeny and timing of diversification". PNAS. pp. 13698–13703. doi:10.1073/pnas.1206625109.
  2. ↑ Betancur-R, Ricardo; et al. (2013). "The Tree of Life and a New Classification of Bony Fishes". PLOS Currents Tree of Life (Edition 1). doi:10.1371/currents.tol.53ba26640df0ccaee75bb165c8c26288.
  3. ↑ Laurin, M.; Reisz, R.R. (1995). "A reevaluation of early amniote phylogeny". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 113: 165–223. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb00932.x.


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