Acanthuriformes

Brown meagre (Sciaena umbra)

Ctenochaetus tominiensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Clade:	Percomorpha
Order:	Acanthuriformes Jordan, 1923^[1]
Suborders
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Acanthuriformes is an order of ray-finned fishes, part of the Percomorpha clade. Some authorities place the fishes in the order within the Acanthuriformes in the suborders Acanthuroidea and Percoidea of the order Perciformes.

Classification

The Acanthuriformes as defined in the 5th edition of Fishes of the World is set out as follows: ^[2]^[3]

Order Acanthuriformes
- Suborder Sciaenoidei Gill, 1872
  - Family Emmelichthyidae Poey, 1867 (Rovers)
  - Family Sciaenidae Cuvier, 1829 (Drums)
- Suborder Acanthuroidei Greenwood et al, 1966^[4]
  - Family Luvaridae Gill, 1885 (Luvar)
  - Family Zanclidae Bleeker, 1876 (Moorish angels)
  - †Family Massalongiidae Tyler & Bannikov, 2005
  - Family Acanthuridae Bonaparte, 1835 (Surgeonfishes)
    - Subfamily Nasinae Fowler & Bean, 1929
    - Subfamily Acanthurinae Bonaparte, 1835
      - Tribe Prionurini J.L.B. Smith, 1966
      - Tribe Zebrasomini Winterbottom, 1993
      - Tribe Acanthurini Bonaparte, 1835

Other authorities do not include the Scianoidei within the Acanthuriformes and place the two families included in that suborder as incertae sedis in the Eupercaria.^[5]

References

^ "Taxon: Order Acanthuriformes Jordan, 1923". The Taxonomicon. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
^ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 497–502. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
^ Richard Winterbottom (1993). "Myological Evidence for the Phylogeny of Recent Genera of Surgeonfishes (Percomorpha, Acanthuridae), with Comments on the Acanthuroidei". Copeia. 1993 (1): 21–39. doi:10.2307/1446292.
^ Ricardo Betancur-R; Edward O. Wiley; Gloria Arratia; et al. (2017). "Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (162). doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3. PMC 5501477.