Zeiformes

Taxobox
name = Zeiformes


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image_caption = Mirror dory, family Zeidae
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Zeiformes
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision = Suborder Zeioidei
*Family Cyttidae
*Family Grammicolepididae
*Family Oreosomatidae (oreos)
*Family Parazenidae (parazen and allies)
*Family Zeidae (true dories)
*Family Zenionidae (Macrurocyttidae)Suborder Caproidei
*Family Caproidae (boarfishes)The Zeiformes are a small order of marine ray-finned fishes most notable for the dories, a group of common food fish.The order consists of about 40 species in seven families, mostly deep-sea types.

Zeiform bodies are usually thin and deep. Mouths are large, with distensible jaws, and there is no orbitosphenoid] . Pelvic fins have 5-10 soft rays and possibly a spine, 5-10 dorsal fin spines and up to 4 anal fin spines.

The classification of the boarfishes (Caproidae) in this order is uncertain, since they have many perciform characters, for instance in the caudal skeleton.

References

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* J.S. Nelson, "Fishes of the World"