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Menidiinae 
Taxonomic Serial No.: 630585

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Subfamily  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2004   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassActinopterygii  – ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes, poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées  
                      ClassTeleostei   
                         SuperorderAcanthopterygii   
                            OrderAtheriniformes  – silversides  
                               FamilyAtherinopsidae  – charales y pejerreyes, New World silversides, poissons d'argent  
                                  SubfamilyMenidiinae   
    Direct Children:  
                                     Genus Atherinella Steindachner, 1875  
                                     Genus Chirostoma Swainson, 1839  
                                     Genus Labidesthes Cope, 1870 – brook silversides 
                                     Genus Melanorhinus Metzelaar, 1919  
                                     Genus Membras Bonaparte, 1836 – smoothscaled silversides, rough silversides 
                                     Genus Menidia Bonaparte, 1836 – Atlantic silversides 
                                     Genus Poblana de Buen, 1945  
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Dyer, B. S., and B. Chernoff  
  Publication Date: 1996   
  Article/Chapter Title: Phylogenetic relationships among atheriniform fishes (Teleostei: Atherinomorpha)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society, vol. 117, no. 1   
  Page(s): 1-69   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0024-4082   
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  Reference for: Menidiinae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Nelson, Joseph S.  
  Publication Date: 1994   
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  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   
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  Reference for: Menidiinae   
       

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