Acanthopterygii

Acanthopterygii
Labidesthes sicculus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Subclass:	Neopterygii
Infraclass:	Teleostei
(unranked):	Acanthomorpha
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.

Phylogeny

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

Acanthopterygii

Beryciformes (squirrelfish) 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)

Taxonomy

• 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^[2]
• Order Gasterosteiformes including the sticklebacks
• Order Syngnathiformes, including the seahorses and pipefishes ^[3]
• Order Synbranchiformes, including the swamp eels
• Order Tetraodontiformes, including the filefishes and pufferfishes
• Order Pleuronectiformes, the flatfishes
• Order Scorpaeniformes, including the scorpionfishes
• Order Perciformes 40% of all fishes including anabantids, basses, cichlids, gobies, gouramis, mackerels, perches, scats, whitings, wrasses

Notes

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

Sources

• Acanthopterygii at thefreedictionary.com

External links

• Tree of Life: Acanthopterygii