Percoidei

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.

Divisions

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

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.