Perch-Like and Related Marine Fish Orders is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the large fish orders of perch-like fishes and their relatives, scorpionfishes, flatfishes, anglerfishes, pufferfishes, seahorses and killifishes. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that it is an order of perch-like or related fishes. It excludes carp, salmon and eel orders. Members are placed by the classification their cited article gives, not by common name or appearance alone.
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Perciformes (Wikipedia)
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Perciformes (), is an order of ray-finned fish in the clade Percomorpha.
Tetraodontiformes - Wikipedia
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Tetraodontiformes (), also known as the Plectognathi, is an order of ray-finned fishes which includes the pufferfishes and related taxa.
Wikipedia: Scorpaeniformes
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The Scorpaeniformes are a diverse order of ray-finned fish, encompassing species such as the stonefish, lionfish, and sculpins, but have also been called the Scleroparei.
Wikipedia: Flatfish
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Flatfish are a group of ray-finned fish belonging to the suborder Pleuronectoidei of the order Carangiformes.
Anglerfish (Wikipedia)
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The anglerfish are ray-finned fish in the order Lophiiformes ().
Wikipedia: Syngnathiformes
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The Syngnathiformes are an order of ray-finned fishes that includes the pipefishes, seahorses, trumpetfishes, goatfish, dragonets, flying gurnards, and sea moths, among others.
Wikipedia: Gasterosteoidei
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Gasterosteoidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes that includes the sticklebacks and relatives.
Wikipedia: Beloniformes
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Beloniformes is an order composed of six families (and about 264 species) of freshwater and marine ray-finned fish:
Wikipedia: Cyprinodontiformes
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Cyprinodontiformes () is an order of ray-finned fish, comprising mostly small, freshwater fish.
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