Beryciformes
Translingual
Proper noun
Beryciformes
- A taxonomic order within the class Actinopterygii – the roughies, flashlight fishes and squirrelfishes, and their close relatives.
- A taxonomic order within the class Teleostei – flashlight fish, fangtooths, whalefish, and certain other closely related deepsea fish.[1]
Hypernyms
- (order in Teleostei): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Deuterostomia - infrakingdom; Chordata - phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Actinopterygii - superclass; Teleostei - class[1]
Hyponyms
- (order in Actinopterygii): Berycoidei, Holocentroidei, Trachichthyoidei - suborder
- (order in Teleostei): Anomalopidae (flashlight fishes), Anoplogastridae (fangtooths), Barbourisiidae (velvet whalefishes), Berycidae (alfonsinos), Cetomimidae (flabby whalefishes), Diretmidae (spinyfins), Gibberichthyidae (gibber fishes), Hispidoberycidae (pricklefishes), Melamphaidae (ridgeheads), Monocentridae (pinecone fishes), Rondeletiidae (redmouth whalefishes), Stephanoberycidae (pricklefishes), Trachichthyidae (slimeheads) - families[1]
References
- Beryciformes at World Register of Marine Species
- Acanthopterygii at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521
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