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Esociformes is the traditional order name for the pikes and mudminnows. Current classification more often treats the group as the suborder Esocoidei, one of two suborders within the order Salmoniformes, containing the two families Umbridae and Esocidae; the pikes of genus Esox give the group its name.

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