Suborder
Scorpaenoidei
Sebastes mystinus. Photo: (c) NOAA Photo Library, some rights reserved (CC BY)
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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