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Perciformes, also called the Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish in the clade Percomorpha. Perciformes means "perch-like". Among the well-known members of this group are perch and darters, sea bass and groupers. Wikipedia
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Perciformes also called the Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish in the clade Percomorpha. Perciformes means "perch-like".
Perciform, (order Perciformes), any member of the largest group of fishes in the world, represented by more than 6000 species placed in about 150 families.
Most perciforms are marine shore fishes, while about 2,000 species (e.g. cichlids) normally occur only in freshwater, and about 2,200 species occur in ...
Perciformes belong to the Actinopterygii, a major taxonomic class (or subclass) of fish, known as the "ray-finned fishes," within which 96 percent of all fish ...
Distribution: Widely distrib- uted in coastal areas of the. Indo-West Pacific, from the eastern edge of the Persian. Gulf to China and southern Ja- pan, and ...
They are usually robust with large mouths, small teeth, ctenoid scales, and either a round or a truncate caudal fin. Most species live in shallow tropical or ...
Suborder Caproidei accepted as Caproidae Bonaparte, 1835 (Downlifted to family rank in Acanthuriformes.) Family Coracinidae accepted as Dichistiidae Smith, 1935 ...
As presently understood, the order Perciformes contains >9,000 species arranged in 18 suborders and 148 families (Nelson, 1994). A great many of these occur in ...
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