Carangiformes is a large, diverse order of ray-finned fishes within the clade Percomorpha. It is part of a sister clade to the Ovalentaria, alongside its sister group, the Anabantaria (including Anabantiformes and Synbranchiformes). 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 more recent authorities expanding the order to include up to 30 families, based on phylogenetic evidence.[3]

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]

Taxonomy

This order has often been either subsumed within Perciformes or used exclusively to refer to families classified within the suborder Carangoidei. However, more recent studies using genetic data have found such a placement to be paraphyletic, and have incorporated many more groups into it, including the highly unusual flatfishes.

This classification is from Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification.[5]

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] A basal member of this clade is thought to be Ductoridae from the early Eocene.[6]

Traditional Classification

In past classifications such as Fishes of the World 5, Carangiformes were restricted to these families. This placement is now known to be paraphyletic:[2]

Fossil of Mene oblonga

See also

References

  1. ^ "Taxon: Order Carangiformes Jordan, 1923 (fish)". Taxonomicon. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification - California Academy of Sciences". www.calacademy.org. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
  6. ^ Friedman, Matt; Johanson, Zerina; Harrington, Richard C.; Near, Thomas J.; Graham, Mark R. (2013-09-07). "An early fossil remora (Echeneoidea) reveals the evolutionary assembly of the adhesion disc". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 280 (1766): 20131200. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.1200. PMC 3730593. PMID 23864599.
  7. ^ 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.
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