Perches, Scorpionfishes, Sticklebacks, and Allies
Perciformes
Perciformes (), is an order of ray-finned fish in the clade Percomorpha. Perciformes means "perch-like". Among the well-known members of this group are perches and darters (Percidae), and also sea basses (Serranidae). This order contains many familiar freshwater temperate and tropical marine fish groups, but also extremophiles that have successfully colonized both the North and South Poles, as well as the deepest depths of the ocean.
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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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.