Acanthopterygii

Acanthopterygii
Labidesthes sicculus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
(unranked):	Actinopteri
Subclass:	Neopterygii
Infraclass:	Teleostei
Superorder:	Acanthopterygii
Orders
See text.

Acanthopterygii (meaning "spiny finned one") is a superorder of bony fishes in the class Actinopterygii. Members of this superorder are also known as the ray-finned fishes for the characteristic sharp, bony rays in their fins; however this name is also often given to the class Actinopterygii as a whole.

Orders:

• Order Mugiliformes, the mullets
• Order Atheriniformes, including silversides and rainbowfishes
• Order Beloniformes, including the flyingfishes
• Order Cetomimiformes, the whalefishes
• Order Cyprinodontiformes, including livebearers, killifishes
• Order Stephanoberyciformes, including the ridgeheads
• Order Beryciformes, including the fangtooths and pineconefishes
• Order Zeiformes, including the dories
• Order Gobiesociformes, the clingfishes^[1]
• Order Gasterosteiformes including the sticklebacks
• Order Syngnathiformes, including the seahorses and pipefishes ^[2]
• Order Synbranchiformes, including the swamp eels
• Order Tetraodontiformes, including the filefishes and pufferfishes
• Order Pleuronectiformes, the flatfishes
• Order Scorpaeniformes, including scorpionfishes and the weaver fishes
• Order Perciformes 40% of all fishes including anabantids, basses, cichlids, gobies, gouramis, mackerels, perches, scats, whitings, wrasses

Notes

1. ^ In ITIS, Gobiesociformes is placed as the suborder Gobiesocoidei of the order Perciformes.
2. ^ In ITIS, Syngnathiformes is placed as the suborder Syngnathoidei of the order Gasterosteiformes.

Sources

• Acanthopterygii at thefreedictionary.com

External links

• Tree of Life: Acanthopterygii

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