Zoarcoidei
| Zoarcoidei | |
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| Atlantic wolffish Anarhichas lupus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Suborder: | Zoarcoidei Gill, 1893[1] |
| Families | |
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Zoarcoidei is a
. The suborder includes about 400 species. These fishes predominantly found in the boreal seas of the northern hemisphere but they have colonised the southern hemisphere.Taxonomy
Zoarcoidei was first proposed as a taxonomic grouping by the American zoologist Theodore Gill in 1893 as the
monophyletic.[3] The monophyly of this grouping has still not been fully ascertained but it is generally accepted that the most basal family is Bathymasteridae.[2]
Timeline
Superfamilies and Families
Zoarcoidei has the following superfamilies and families classified under it:[2][4]
- Superfamily:Anarhichadoidea
- Superfamily:Bathymasteroidea
- Family:Ptilichthyidae Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 (Quillfish)
- Family:)
- Family:
- Superfamily:Zaproroidea
- Superfamily:Zoarcoidea
- Family:Eulophiidae H. M. Smith, 1902 (Spinous eelpouts)[5]
- Family:)
Etymology
Zoarcoidei is based on the genus name Zoarces viviparus, the viviparous blenny.[6]
Characteristics
The Zoarcoidei families all share a single feature, the possession of a single nostril, and there is no other features or group of features which mark out the Zoarcoids as a taxonomic grouping.[2]
Distribution
The Zoarcoidei is thought to have originated in the northern hemisphere, particularly the northwestern Pacific Ocean and one of the families, the Zoarcidae, has colonised the southern hemisphere on a number of occasions.[7]
References
- ^ ISSN 0073-4381.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
- PMID 28683774.
- PMID 25543675.
- .
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (6 May 2022). "Order Perciformes (Part 11): Suborder Cottoidea: Infraorder Zoarcales: Family Zoarcidae (eelpouts)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
- S2CID 255269520.
- Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-18.