Scombriformes is an

order Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood * Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...

bony fish Osteichthyes (), popularly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse superclass of fish that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue. They can be contrasted with the Chondrichthyes, which have skeletons primarily composed of cartilag ...

containing nine

families Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Ideall ...

which were classified under the

suborder Order ( la, ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and ...

Scombroidei Scombroidei is a suborder of the Perciformes, the largest order of fish. The suborder includes the barracuda, tuna, and mackerel, as well as the billfish The term billfish refers to a group of saltwater predatory fish characterised by pro ...

and

Stromateoidei Stromateoidei is a suborder of the Scombriformes, the largest order of fish. The suborder includes the medusafishes, squaretails and driftfishes which associate with jellyfish, the latter families preying on them while the medusafish use them ...

, of the wider grouping known as

Perciformes Perciformes (), also called the Percomorpha or Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish. If considered a single order, they are the most numerous order of vertebrates, containing about 41% of all bony fish. Perciformes means ...

, ''

Fishes of the World ''Fishes of the World'' by the American ichthyologist Joseph S. Nelson (1937–2011) is a standard reference for fish systematics. Now in its fifth edition (2016), the work is a comprehensive overview of the diversity and classification of the ...

'', 5th ed. (2016), recognised the order but subsequent workers have suggested that Scombriformes forms part of the larger

Pelagiaria Scombriformes is an Order (biology), order of bony fish containing nine Family (Biology), families which were classified under the suborders Scombroidei and Stromateoidei, of the wider grouping known as Perciformes, ''Fishes of the World'', 5th e ...

clade A clade (), also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a group of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree. Rather than the English term, ...

Families

The families placed under Scombriformes in Nelson 2016 are: * Order Scombriformes ** Suborder

*** Family

Gempylidae The Gempylidae are a family of perciform fishes commonly known as snake mackerels or escolars. The family includes about 25 species. They are elongated fishes with a similar appearance to barracudas, having a long dorsal fin, usually with one or ...

(snake mackerels) *** Family Trichiuridae (cutlassfishes) **** Subfamily Aphanopodinae **** Subfamily Lepidopodinae **** Subfamily Trichiurinae *** Family

Scombridae The mackerel, tuna, and bonito family, Scombridae, includes many of the most important and familiar food fishes. The family consists of 51 species in 15 genera and two subfamilies. All species are in the subfamily Scombrinae, except the butterfly ...

(mackerels and tunas) **** Subfamily

Gasterochismatinae The butterfly kingfish (''Gasterochisma melampus'') is an ocean-dwelling ray-finned bony fish in the mackerel family, Scombridae – a family which it shares with the tunas, mackerels, Spanish mackerels, and bonitos. Unlike the 50 species from th ...

**** Subfamily

Scombrinae The Scombrinae are a subfamily of ray-finned bony fishes in the family Scombridae. Of the 51 species in the Scombridae, 50 are in Scombrinae – with the sole exception being the butterfly kingfish, which is placed in the monospecific subfamily ...

** Suborder

*** Family

Amarsipidae ''Amarsipus'' is the sole genus in the bagless glassfish family, Amarsipidae. It contains the single species ''Amarsipus carlsbergi'', the amarsipa, which is a small and slender fish that lives in equatorial parts of the Indian and Pacific Ocean ...

(the amarsipa) *** Family Centrolophidae (medusafishes) *** Family Nomeidae (driftfishes) *** Family

Ariommatidae Ariomattidae is a family of marine ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fishes, is a class of bony fish. They comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. The ray-finned fishes are so called becau ...

(ariommatids) *** Family Tetragonuridae (squaretails) *** Family

Stromateidae The family Stromateidae or butterfish contains 15 species of fish in three genera. Butterfishes live in coastal waters off the Americas, western Africa and in the Indo-Pacific. The endemic New Zealand species '' Odax pullus'' is commonly called b ...

(butterfishes) In Betancur-R et al., 2017, the following additional families are placed under Scombriformes, which is considered synonymous with the Pelagiaria clade. * Family

Arripidae ''Arripis'' is a genus of marine fishes from Australia and New Zealand, known as Australian salmon, kahawai and Australian herring. They are the only members of the family Arripidae. Despite the common name, Australian salmon are not related t ...

(Australasian salmon (kahawai)) * Family

Bramidae Pomfrets are perciform fishes belonging to the family Bramidae. The family currently includes 20 species across seven genera. Several species are important food sources for humans, especially ''Brama brama'' in South Asia. The earlier form of t ...

(pomfrets) * Family

Caristiidae Caristiidae, the manefishes, are a family of perciform fishes which today includes 19 extant species distributed in four genera. ''Chalcidichthys malacapterygius'' and ''Absalomichthys velifer'' are extinct species from the Upper Miocene of South ...

(manefishes) * Family

Chiasmodontidae The Chiasmodontidae, snaketooth fishes or swallowers, are a family of deep-sea percomorph fishes, part of the order Trachiniformes, known from oceans worldwide. Timeline ImageSize = width:1000px height:auto barincrement:15px PlotArea = l ...

(swallowers) * Family

Icosteidae The ragfish (''Icosteus aenigmaticus'') is a ray-finned fish of the northern Pacific Ocean; although a perciform, its skeleton is mostly cartilage, and the larvae have pelvic fins that disappear as they mature. It is the sole member of the fam ...

(the ragfish) * Family Pomatomidae (the bluefish) * Family

Scombrolabracidae The longfin escolar, ''Scombrolabrax heterolepis'', also known as the black mackerel, is a widespread but uncommon deep sea fish that presents some difficulties for Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy. It is placed in its own family Scombrolabracidae, ...

(the longfin escolar) * Family

Scombropidae The gnomefishes form a small family, Scombropidae, consisting of three extant species of marine fish in the genus ''Scombrops''. They have two dorsal fins and are notable for scales covering the soft parts of the dorsal and anal fins. The eyes ar ...

(gnomefishes)

References

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