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Order of fishes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Acanthuriformes is an order of ray-finned fishes, part of the Percomorpha clade. Some authorities place the fishes in the order within the Acanthuriformes in the suborders Acanthuroidea and Percoidea of the order Perciformes.
Acanthuriformes | |
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Brown meagre (Sciaena umbra) | |
Ctenochaetus tominiensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Clade: | Percomorpha |
Order: | Acanthuriformes Jordan, 1923[1] |
Suborders | |
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The Acanthuriformes as defined in the 5th edition of Fishes of the World is set out as follows: [2][3]
Other authorities do not include the Scianoidei within the Acanthuriformes and place the two families included in that suborder as incertae sedis in the Eupercaria.[5]
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