38 VERTEBRATA 



Order MICROCYPRINI 



( = Cyprinodontes, Cyprinodontiformes) 

 Fundulus (killifish); Oryzias (medaka, killifish); 

 Lebistes (guppy); Platypoecilus (platyfish, sword- 

 tail) ; Anableps (four-eyed fish) 

 Order SOLENICHTHYES 



( = SVNGNATHIFORMES + AULOSTOMIFORMES) 



Macrorhamphosus (snipe-fish); Hippocampus (sea- 

 horse) 

 Order ANACANTHINI 



( = Gadiformes + Macruriformes) 

 Gadus (cod, whiting); Merluccius (hake); 

 Macrourus 

 Order ALLOTRIOGNATHI 

 ( = Lampridiformes) 

 Lampris (moon-fish) ; Trachypterus (ribbon-fish) 

 Order BERYCOMORPHI 



Beryx; Monocentris 

 Order ZEOMORPHI 



Zeus (John Dory) ; Capros (boar-fish) 

 Order PERCOMORPffli 

 Sub-order Percoidea 



Perca (perch) ; Morone (bass) 

 Sub-order TEUTHrooroEA 

 ( = Siganoidei) 

 Teuthis 

 Sub-order Acanthuroidea 

 Acanthurus (surgeon-fish) 

 Sub-order Kurtoidea 



Kurtus 

 Sub-order TRicrauROiDEA 



Lepidopus (frost fish) ; Aphanopus (scabbard fish) 

 Sub-order Scombroidea 



Scomber (mackerel) ; Thunnus (tunny) 

 Sub-order Gobioidea 



Gobius (goby) ; Periophthalmus (mud-skipper) 

 Sub-order Callionymoidea (dragonets) 



Callionymus 

 Sub-order Blennioidea 

 Blennius (blenny); Anarhichas (sea catfish, wolf- 

 fish) 

 Sub-order Ophidioidea (cusk eels) 



Genypterus 

 Sub-order Stromateoidea 



Lirus (rudder-fish) ; Nomeus 

 Sub-order Channoidea 



( = Ophicephaloidea) 

 Channa ( = Ophicephalus) 

 Sub-order Anabantoidea 

 Anabas (climbing perch) 

 Sub-order Mugiloidea (grey mullets) 

 ( = Percesoces) 

 Mugil; Atherina; Sphyraena (barracuda) 



^ Acanthopterygii which, inter alia, includes the Percomorphi, is obsolete. 



