CLASS OSTEiCHTHYES. BONY FISHES 



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Order 

 Order 

 Order 

 Order 

 ** Order 



Order 



Order 



Order 1. Lepisosteida. Ex. gars. 

 Order 2, Amiida. Ex. bowfin (Fig. 

 252). 

 Superorder 3. Teleosteica (perfected 



bone). 

 **Order 1. Isospondylida. Exs. herring, 

 salmon, deep-sea fishes, tar- 

 pon, shad, whitefish, and 

 lake herring. 

 Order 2. Bathyclupeida. Ex. deep-sea 

 herrings. 



3. Mormyrida. 



4. Ateleopida. 



5. Giganturida. 



6. Lyomerida. 



7. Ostariophysida. Exs. cat- 

 fishes, minnows, characins 

 (Fig. 252), suckers, carp, 

 buffalo. 



8. Anguillida. Ex. eels (Fig. 

 252). 



9. Heteromida. Ex. spiny eels. 

 Order 10. Synbranchiida. Ex. mud 



eels. 



Order 11. Cyprinodontida. Exs. 



toothed carps, top minnows. 



Order 12. Salmopercida. Ex. trout 

 perches. 



Order 13. Berycomorphida. Ex. Bery- 

 coid fishes. 



Order 14. Zeomorphida. Ex. John 

 dories. 

 **Order 15. Anacanthida. Exs. codfishes, 

 haddock, pollack, burbot. 



Order 16. Thoracosteida. Ex. stickle- 

 backs. 



Order 17. Solenichthyida. Exs. trum- 

 pet and pipefishes, sea 

 horses. 



Order 18. Allotriognathida. Exs. moon- 

 fishes, ribbonfishes. 

 **Order 19. Percomorphida. Exs. perches, 

 basses, gobies, blennies (Fig. 

 252), snappers, parrot fishes, 

 and butterfly fishes. 



Order 20. Scleropareida. Exs. scorpion 



and rockfishes. 

 Order 21. Cephalacanthida. Ex. gurn- 

 ards (Fig. 252). 

 **Order 22. Pleuronectida. Exs. flat- 



fishes, soles, flounders, hali- 

 but. 



Order 23. Icosteida. Ex. ragfishes. 



Order 24. Chaudhurida. 



Order 25. Discocephalida. Exs. Shark 

 suckers, rcmoras. 



Order 26. Plectognathida. Exs. puffers, 

 filefishes, trunkfishes (Fig. 

 252). 



Order 27. Gobiesocida. Ex. clingfishes. 



Order 28. Batrachoidida. Ex. toad- 

 fishes. 



Order 29. Pediculatida. Exs. anglers, 

 gooscfish (Fig. 252). 



SELECTED COLLATERAL 

 READINGS 



Axclrod, H.R., and Schultz, L.P. Handbook of 



Tropical Aquarium Fishes. McGraw-Hill, 



New York, 1955. 

 Berg, L.S. Classification of Fishes Both Recent 



and Fossil. Edwards, Ann Arbor, Mich., 



1940. 

 Brown, M.E. The Physiology of Fishes. Vols. 



1 and 2. Academic Press, New York, 1957. 

 Curtis, B. The Life Story of the Fish: His 



Morals and Manners. Harcourt, Brace, New 



York, 1949. 

 Hubbs, C.L., and Lagler, K.F. Fishes of the 



Great Lakes Region. Cranbrook Institute of 



Science, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., 1947. 

 Jordan, D.S. A Guide to the Study of Fishes. 



Holt, New York, 1905. 

 Lagler, K.F. Freshwater Fishery Biology, W.C. 



Brown, Dubuque, Iowa, 1956. 

 LaGorce, J.O. The Book of Fishes. National 



Geographic Society, Washington, 1939. 

 Norman, J.R. A History of Fishes. Bern, Lon- 

 don, 1931. 

 Schultz, L.P., with Stern, Edith. The Ways of 



Fishes. Van Nostrand, New York, 1948. 

 Treassler, D.K. Marine Products of Commerce. 



Chemical Catalogue Co., New York, 1923. 

 Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. Luck 



Company, London, 1653. 



** Orders of special economic importance. 



