All Salmon, Smelt and Pike Orders

The salmon, smelt and pike orders are three orders of ray-finned fishes, Salmoniformes, Osmeriformes and Esociformes. Animal Diversity Web places the salmonids in Salmoniformes as its single family, Salmonidae. Osmeriformes holds 13 families, among them Osmeridae, the smelts, Argentinidae, the argentines or herring smelts, Bathylagidae, the deep-sea smelts, Galaxiidae, Retropinnidae, the New Zealand smelts, Salangidae, the icefishes or noodlefishes, and Alepocephalidae, the slickheads. Esociformes holds two families, Esocidae, the pikes, and Umbridae, the mudminnows.