Bony Fishes Continued

Superorder Acanthopterygii

Spiny-finned

Order Holocentriformes

Squirrelfishes

Family Holocentridae

Squirrelfishes

Order Batrarchoidiformes

Midshipmen and toadfishes

Family Batrachoiididae

midshipmen and toadfishes

Order Mugiliformes

The mullets

Family Mugilidae

The mullets

Order Atheriniformes

Silversides

Family Atherinidae

Silversides

Order Beloniformes

Sauries, Needlefishes, Halfbeaks, Flying Fishes

Family Scomberescocidae

Sauries

Family Belonidae

Needlefishes

Family Hemiramphidae

Halfbeaks

Family Exocoetidae

Flying fishes

Order Cyprinidontiformes

topminnows, killifishes, pupfishes, livebearers

Family Fundulidae

topminnows and killifishes

Family Cyprinidontidae

Pupfishes

Family Poeciliidae

livebeareres

Order Syngnathiformes

Seahorses, pipefish, and trumpetfish

Order Scorpaeniformes

Scorpionfish

Order Perciformes

snooks, temperate basses, seabasses, sunfish, black basses, darters, perch, tilefish, dolphinfishes, remoras, jacks, pompanos, snappers, tripletails, grunts, threadfins, croakers, drums, porgies, barracudas

Family Centropomidae

snooks

Family Moronidae

temperate basses (white and stripped)

Family Serranidae

Seabasses

Family Centrarchidae

sunfish and black basses

Family Percidae

Darters and perch

Family Malacanthidae

tilefish

Family Coryphaenidae

dolphinfishes

Family Echeneidae

remoras

Family Carangidae

Jacks and pompanos

Family Lutjanidae

snappers

Family Lobotidae

tripletails

Family Haemulidae

grunts

Family polynemidae

threadfins

Family Sciaenidae

Croakers and drums

Family Sparidae

porgies

Family Sphyraenidae

barracudas

Superorder Laboidei

cichlids, surfperches, damselfishes, wrasses, parrotfishes

Family Cichlidae

cichlids

Family Embiotocidae

surfperches

Family Pomacentridae

damselfishes

Family Labridae

wrasses

Family Scaridae

parrotfishes

Superorder Blennioidei

blenny

Family Blennioidae

blenny

Superorder Gobioidei

goby

Superorder Xiphioidei

swordfish and billfish

Family Xiphiidae

swordfish

Family Istiophoridae

billfish

Suborder Sconbroidei

tunas

Suborder Channoidei

snakeheads

Order Pleuronectiformes

left eye flounder, right eye flounder, soles, tonguefishes

Family Bothidae

Left eye flounder

Family Pleuronectidae

right eye flounder

Family Soleidae

soles

Family Cynoglossidae

tonguefishes

Order Lophiiformes

batfishes and frogfishes

Family Ogcocephalidae

bat fish

Family Antennariidae

frogfishes