Trachiniformes

Trachiniformes is an order of percomorph bony fish which is traditionally the suborder Trachinoidei of the Perciformes.^[1]

However, the classification is also considered as a polyphyly by molecular phylogenies. Trachinidae itself is eventually part of Percoidei. Other members are respectively belongs to Scombriformes, Gobiiformes, new orders Uranoscopiformes, Pempheriformes, and other clades in Perciformes.^[2]

Timeline of genera[edit]

The following families make up the Trachiniformes:^[3] (with respectively belonging taxa following the molecular phylogenies)^[2]

Ammodytidae Bonaparte, 1832 - sandeels or sandlances (considered as part of Uranoscopiformes).
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 formed the monotypic Trichonotoidei, belong to Gobiiformes).
Uranoscopidae Bonaparte, 1831 - stargazers (considered as part of Uranoscopiformes).

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