Suborder
Cottoidei (Sculpins and allies)
Liparis mucosus. Photo: no rights reserved
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.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Class: Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
- Order: Perciformes (Perch-like fishes)
- Suborder: Cottoidei (Sculpins and allies)
- Order: Perciformes (Perch-like fishes)
- Class: Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
