Trachiniformes

Trachiniformes Temporal range: Early Eocene to present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

Trachinus araneus, Sardinia

Ammodytes personatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Clade:	Percomorpha
Order:	Trachiniformes
Families
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The following families make up the Trachiniformes:^[1] (with respectively belonging taxa following the molecular phylogenies)^[3]

Ammodytidae Bonaparte, 1832 - sandeels or sandlances (considered as part of Uranoscopiformes).
†Callipterygidae Jordan, 1905 (fossil; Eocene of Italy)^[4]
Chiasmodontidae Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 - the swallowers (considered as part of Scombriformes).
Champsodontidae Jordan & Snyder, 1902 - gulpers, gapers or crocodile toothfishes (considered as part of Pempheriformes).
Cheimarrichthyidae Regan, 1913 - New Zealand torrentfishes (considered as part of Uranoscopiformes).
Creediidae Waite, 1899 - sandburrowers (considered as part of Pempheriformes).
Leptoscopidae Gill, 1859 - southern sandfishes (considered as part of Pempheriformes).
Percophidae Swainson, 1839 - duckbills (as a polyphyly, respectively part of Pempheriformes and Perciformes (Notothenioidei and Bembropoidei)).
Pinguipedidae Günther, 1860 - sandperches (considered as part of Uranoscopiformes).
Trachinidae Rafinesque, 181 - weeverfishes (considered as part of Percoidei, belong to Perciformes).
Trichodontidae Bleeker, 1859 - sandfish (considered as a part of Cottoidei, belong to Scorpaeniformes).
Trichonotidae Günther, 1861 - sanddivers (considered to form the monotypic Trichonotoidei, belong to Gobiiformes).
Uranoscopidae Bonaparte, 1831 - stargazers (considered as part of Uranoscopiformes).

^ ^a ^b Nelson, JS; Grande, TC & Wilson, MVH (2016). "Classification of fishes from Fishes of the World 5th Edition" (PDF). Retrieved 10 June 2018.

^ Bailly N, ed. (2017). "Trachinoidei". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 15 June 2018.

^ ^a ^b Ricardo Betancur-R; Edward O. Wiley; Gloria Arratia; Arturo Acero; Nicolas Bailly; Masaki Miya; Guillaume Lecointre; Guillermo Ortí (2017-07-06). "Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (1): 162. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 5501477. PMID 28683774.

Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Retrieved 2011-05-19.

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