Percoidei

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Percoidei
Girella fimbriata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes Suborder: Percoidei
Superfamily
Percoidea Cirrhitoidea Cepoloidea

Percoidei is one of eighteen suborders of bony fish in the order Perciformes. Many commercially harvested fish species are contained in this suborder, including the snappers, jacks, whitings, groupers, bass, perches and porgies.

[edit] Divisions

The Percoidei is further divided into three superfamilies which contain over fifty families and hundreds of genera.

• Suborder Percoidei
  • Superfamily Percoidea
    • Acropomatidae (temperate ocean-basses)
    • Ambassidae (Asiatic glassfishes)
    • Apogonidae (cardinalfishes)
    • Arripidae (Australasian salmon)
    • Banjosidae
    • Bathyclupeidae
    • Bramidae (pomfrets)
    • Callanthiidae
    • Carangidae (jacks, pompanos)
    • Caristiidae (manefishes)
    • Centracanthidae
    • Centrarchidae (freshwater sunfishes)
    • Centropomidae (snooks)
    • Chaetodontidae (butterflyfishes)
    • Coryphaenidae (dolphinfishes)
    • Dichistiidae (galjoen fishes)
    • Dinolestidae (long-finned pike)
    • Dinopercidae
    • Drepaneidae
    • Echeneidae (remoras)
    • Emmelichthyidae (rovers)
    • Enoplosidae (oldwife)
    • Epigonidae (deepwater cardinalfishes)
    • Gerreidae (mojarras)
    • Glaucosomatidae (pearl perches)
    • Grammatidae (basslets)
    • Haemulidae (grunts)
    • Inermiidae (bonnetmouths)
    • Kuhliidae (flagtails or aholeholes)
    • Kyphosidae (sea chubs)
    • Lactariidae (false trevallies)
    • Leiognathidae (ponyfishes)
    • Leptobramidae (beachsalmon)
    • Lethrinidae
    • Lobotidae (tripletails)
    • Lutjanidae (snappers, fusiliers)
    • Malacanthidae (Tilefishes)
    • Menidae (moonfish)
    • Monodactylidae (moonyfishes)
    • Moronidae (temperate basses)
    • Mullidae (goatfishes)
    • Nandidae (leaffishes)
    • Nematistiidae (roosterfish)
    • Nemipteridae (threadfin breams)
    • Notograptidae
    • Opistognathidae (jawfishes)
    • Oplegnathidae (knifejaws)
    • Ostracoberycidae
    • Pempheridae (sweepers)
    • Pentacerotidae (armorheads)
    • Percichthyidae (Temperate perches)
    • Percidae (perches and darters)
    • Plesiopidae
    • Polycentridae
    • Polynemidae (threadfins)
    • Polyprionidae (wreckfishes)
    • Pomacanthidae (angelfishes)
    • Pomatomidae (bluefishes)
    • Priacanthidae (bigeyes, catalufas)
    • Pseudochromidae (dottybacks)
    • Rachycentridae (cobia)
    • Sciaenidae (drums)
    • Scombropidae (gnomefish)
    • Serranidae (sea basses, groupers)
    • Sillaginidae (whitings et al)
    • Sparidae (porgies)
    • Terapontidae (grunters or tigerperches)
    • Toxotidae (archerfishes)
  • Superfamily Cirrhitoidea
    • Aplodactylidae (marblefishes)
    • Cheilodactylidae (morwongs)
    • Chironemidae (kelpfishes)
    • Cirrhitidae (hawkfishes)
    • Latridae (trumpeters)
  • Superfamily Cepoloidea
    • Cepolidae (bandfishes)