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Gasterosteiformes

Fish Orders

Gasterosteiformes is the traditional order name for the sticklebacks and their relatives. Modern classifications increasingly treat the group instead as the suborder Gasterosteoidei within the much larger order Perciformes, rather than as an independent order.

Facts
Taxonomic Rank
Order 1
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Gasterosteoidei
Taxonomic rank (Wikipedia confirms the entity; rank from slug/structure-wave classification)View the Source
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