Acanthopterygii

Taxobox
name=Acanthopterygii

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image_caption="Labidesthes sicculus"
regnum=Animalia
phylum=Chordata
classis=Actinopterygii
infraclassis=Teleostei
superordo=Acanthopterygii
subdivision_ranks=Orders
subdivision=See text.

Acanthopterygii (meaning "spiny finned one") is the name of a superorder of fish in the class Actinopterygii. It includes the teleost bony fishes, with characteristic sharp bony rays.

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" [In ITIS, Gobiesociformes is placed as the suborder Gobiesocoidei of the order Perciformes.]
* Order Gasterosteiformes "including sticklebacks, pipefishes, seahorses"
* Order Syngnathiformes, "including the seahorses and pipefishes" [In ITIS, Syngnathiformes is placed as the suborder Syngnathoidei of the order Gasterosteiformes.]
* Order Synbranchiformes, "including the swamp eels"
* Order Tetraodontiformes, "including the filefishes and pufferfish"
* Order Pleuronectiformes, "the flatfishes"
* Order Scorpaeniformes, "including scorpionfishes and the weaver fish"
* Order Perciformes "40% of all fish including anabantids, bass, cichlids, gobies, gouramis, mackerel, perches, scats, whiting, wrasses"

Notes

ources

* [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Acanthopterygii Acanthopterygii at thefreedictionary.com]

External Links

* [http://tolweb.org/Acanthopterygii/15094 Tree of Life: Acanthopterygii]