Percoidei [SEP] parent taxon
Percoidei
Percoidei is one of 18 suborders of bony fishes in the order Perciformes. Many commercially harvested fish species are contained in this suborder, including the snappers, jacks, whitings, groupers, basses, perches, and porgies.
Divisions.
The Percoidei are further divided into three superfamilies which contain over 50 families and hundreds of genera.
- Superfamily Percoidea
- Acropomatidae (temperate ocean-basses)
- Ambassidae (Asiatic glassfishes)
- Apogonidae (cardinalfishes)
- Arripidae (Australasian salmon)
in Wikispecies, and may differ from the cited source, as listed citations are primarily for range or existence of records for the region. Sub-taxa within any given taxon are arranged alphabetically as a general rule. Synonyms may be listed where useful.
Suborder: Percoidei.
Suborder: Percoidei Superfamily: Cepoloidea.
Suborder: Percoidei Superfamily: Cepoloidea Family: Cepolidae — Bandfishes.
- Bandfish "Acanthocepola indica" (Day, 1888) (Occasionally taken by trawl in coastal waters from Natal to Japan)
- "Owstonia