Predatory Fish Families (Jacks, Dolphinfishes and Marlins)

Perciform Fish Families (Perciformes) is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the fish families placed in the order Perciformes, the perch-like fishes, such as the jacks, dolphinfishes, billfishes and gouramis. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that it is a family of perciform fishes. It excludes families of other bony fish orders and the cartilaginous fishes. Perciformes is the largest order of vertebrates by number of described species, and its families range from small reef fishes to large open-ocean predators.

Predatory Fish Families (Jacks, Dolphinfishes and Marlins) is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the families of fast-swimming predatory marine fishes, such as the jacks and trevallies, the dolphinfishes and the marlins. An entry belongs here when its own cited article describes the family as made up of predatory fishes of the open sea or reefs. It excludes freshwater fish families, bottom-dwelling fish families and the cartilaginous fishes, and the families gathered here include some of the most important commercial and sporting fishes.