Carangiformes is an order of ray-finned fishes that is part of a sister clade to the Ovalentaria, the other orders in the clade being the Synbranchiformes, Anabantiformes, Istiophoriformes, and Pleuronectiformes. The Carangiformes have been long regarded as a monotypic order with only the family Carangidae within it by some authorities, and the other current families within the order have been previously classified as part of the wider order Perciformes. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classify six families within Carangiformes,[2] with other authorities expanding the order to include up to 30 families.[3]
| Carangiformes Temporal range:
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| Bluefin trevally (Caranx melampygus) | |
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| Remora remora | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Percomorpha |
| Order: | Carangiformes Jordan, 1923[1] |
| Type species | |
| Caranx praeustus Anonymous [Bennett], 1830 | |
The earliest known carangiforms are two fossil species of Mene, Mene purydi from Peru and Mene phosphatica from Tunisia, both of which are known from the Late Paleocene.[4]
Families
editThese families are classified within the order Carangiformes:[2]
- Nematistiidae Gill[5] (roosterfish)
- Coryphaenidae Rafinesque, 1815[5] (dolphinfish)
- Rachycentridae Gill 1896[5] (cobia)
- Echeneidae Rafinesque, 1815[5] (remoras)
- Carangidae Rafinesque, 1815[5] (jacks)
- Menidae Fitzinger, 1873[5] (moonfishes)
The Coryphaenidae, Rachycentridae, and Echeneidae have been suggested to comprise a monophyletic grouping, which has been recovered as a sister clade to the Carangidae.[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Taxon: Order Carangiformes Jordan, 1923 (fish)". Taxonomicon. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
- ^ a b c J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 380–383. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
- ^ Girard, Matthew G.; Davis, Matthew P.; Smith, W. Leo (2020-05-08). "The Phylogeny of Carangiform Fishes: Morphological and Genomic Investigations of a New Fish Clade". Copeia. 108 (2): 265. doi:10.1643/CI-19-320. ISSN 0045-8511.
- ^ Friedman, Matt; V. Andrews, James; Saad, Hadeel; El-Sayed, Sanaa (2023-06-16). "The Cretaceous–Paleogene transition in spiny-rayed fishes: surveying "Patterson's Gap" in the acanthomorph skeletal record André Dumont medalist lecture 2018". Geologica Belgica. doi:10.20341/gb.2023.002. ISSN 1374-8505.
- ^ a b c d e f Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230.