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Stephanoberycoidei
- prickle-fishes
(fish)
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Entity:
Beryciformes (Order) - beryciforms
..Berycoidei (Suborder) - bigscales and alfonsinos
..Holocentroidei (Suborder)
..Stephanoberycoidei (Suborder) - prickle-fishes
....Cetomimoidea (Superfamily) - whalefishes
....Stephanoberycoidea (Superfamily)
Types
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]
:
Stephanoberycidae
(Family)
Gill, 1884
Variants
Current rank
:
Stephanoberyciformes
(Order)
Berg, 1937
Ref:
E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson, 2010
: 127.
[indirect]
Former rank
:
Stephanoberycacea
(Division)
Wiley & Johnson, 2010
Ref:
R. van der Laan, 2018
: 73.
[inferred]
Former rank
:
Stephanoberyciformes
(Order)
Berg, 1937
Ref:
R. van der Laan, 2018
: 73.
Former rank
:
Stephanoberycoidea
(Superfamily)
Gill, 1884
Ref:
R. van der Laan, 2018
: 73.
[inferred]
Synonyms
Including
:
Cetomimoidea
(Superfamily)
Goode & Bean, 1895
Ref:
R. van der Laan, 2018
: 73.
[inferred]
Including
:
Cetomimoidei
(Suborder)
Ref:
R. van der Laan, 2018
: 73.
[inferred]
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
doornvissen
Ref:
B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
prickle-fishes
Ref:
J.S. Nelson et al., 2016
: 308.
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