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Perciformes  
Taxonomic Serial No.: 167640

 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Order  
  Synonym(s): Channiformes
 
  Common Name(s): perch-like fishes [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial    
  Latest Record Review: 2004    
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  -- Animal, animals, animaux  
    PhylumChordata  -- chordates, cordado, cordés  
       SubphylumVertebrata  -- vertebrado, vertebrates, vertébrés  
          SuperclassOsteichthyes  -- bony fishes, osteíceto, peixe ósseo, poissons osseux  
             ClassActinopterygii  -- poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées, ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes  
                SubclassNeopterygii  -- neopterygians  
                   InfraclassTeleostei   
                      SuperorderAcanthopterygii   
                         OrderPerciformes  -- perch-like fishes  
    Direct Children:  
                            Suborder Acanthuroidei  -- surgeonfishes 
                            Suborder Anabantoidei  -- labyrinthfishes 
                            Suborder Blennioidei  -- blennidés, blennies 
                            Suborder Callionymoidei  -- dragonets 
                            Suborder Channoidei   
                            Suborder Elassomatoidei   
                            Suborder Gobiesocoidei   
                            Suborder Gobioidei  -- gobies, gobies 
                            Suborder Icosteoidei   
                            Suborder Kurtoidei  -- forehead brooders 
                            Suborder Labroidei  -- labres, parrotfishes, poissons-perroquets, rainbowfishes, wrasses 
                            Suborder Notothenioidei  -- Antarctic blennies 
                            Suborder Percoidei   
                            Suborder Scombroidei  -- albacores, bonites, bonitos, germons, mackerels, maquereaux, ribbonfishes, thons, tunas 
                            Suborder Stromateoidei  -- butterfishes, harvestfishes 
                            Suborder Trachinoidei  -- lottes, stargazers, vives, weevers 
                            Suborder Xiphioidei  -- billfishes, espadons, marlins, sailfishses, spearfishes, swordfishses, voiliers 
                            Suborder Zoarcoidei  -- zoarcoids 
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Bruce B. Collette  
  Notes: Senior Scientist, National Systematics Laboratory, National Marine Fisheries Service; Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA   
  Reference for: Perciformes   
       
  Expert: Wayne C. Starnes  
  Notes: Research Curator of Fishes, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Laboratory, 4301 Reedy Creek Rd., Raleigh, NC, 27607, USA   
  Reference for: Perciformes   
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Perciformes   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes  
  Publication Date: 2003   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada   
  Page(s):    
  Publisher:    
  Publication Place:    
  ISBN/ISSN:    
  Notes: As-yet (2003) unpublished manuscript from 1998   
  Reference for: Perciformes   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Nelson, Joseph S.  
  Publication Date: 1994   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Fishes of the World, Third Edition   
  Page(s): xvii + 600   
  Publisher: John Wiley and Sons   
  Publication Place: New York, New York, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-471-54713-1   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Perciformes   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Shiino, Sueo M.  
  Publication Date: 1976   
  Article/Chapter Title: List of Common Names of Fishes of the World, Those Prevailing among English-speaking Nations   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Science Report of Shima Marineland, no. 4   
  Page(s): 262   
  Publisher: Shima Marineland   
  Publication Place: Kashikojima, Shima, Mie, Japan   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0385-1109   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Perciformes   
       

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