Perches, Scorpionfishes, Sticklebacks, and Allies
Perciformes
Perciformes, also called the Percomorpha or Acanthopteri, are the most numerous order of vertebrates, containing about 41% of all bony fish. Perciformes means "perch-like". They belong to the class of ray-finned fish, and comprise over 10,000 species found in almost all aquatic ecosystems.
6 branches of this order, most-observed first · about 3,279 known species
Perches, groupers and allies
suborderPercoidei
Scorpionfishes and Allies
suborderScorpaenoidei
Sculpins and Allies
suborderCottoidei
Sticklebacks and Allies
suborderGasterosteoidei
Eelpouts and allies
suborderZoarcoidei
Icefishes and allies
suborderNotothenioidei
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47233.