Suborder

Cottoidei (Sculpins and allies)

Hemilepidotus spinosus. Photo: (c) Alex Bairstow, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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.

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Subtaxa

Where in Humboldt



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