Zeiformes
| Zeiformes Temporal range:
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Zeus faber
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Superorder: | Paracanthopterygii |
| Order: | Zeiformes Regan, 1909 |
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The Zeiformes food fish. The order consists of about 33 species in six extant families, mostly deep-sea types.
Zeiform bodies are usually thin and deep. Mouths are large, with distensible jaws, and there is no orbitosphenoid.
dwarf dory (Macrurocyttus acanthopodus), at 43 millimetres (1.7 in) in length, to the Cape dory (Zeus capensis), which measures up to 90 centimetres (35 in).[1]
The boarfishes (Caproidae) have been included in this order though they are currently included in the Perciformes.
Families
- Family Cyttidae(lookdown dories)
- Family Grammicolepididae(tinselfishes)
- Family Oreosomatidae (oreos)
- Family Parazenidae (parazens)
- Family Zeidae (dories)
- Family Zenionidae(zeniontids) (formerly known as Macrurocyttidae)
- Family †Archaeozeidae (extinct, Archaeozeus skamolensis)
- Family †Bajaichthyidae (extinct, Bajaichthys elegans)
- Family †Sorbinipercidae (extinct)
Timeline of genera
References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2005). "Zeiformes" in FishBase. March 2005 version.
- J.S. Nelson, Fishes of the World
- Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Retrieved 2011-05-17.