Ovalentaria

a percomorph series of ray-finned fishes, includes mullet, cichlids, damselfishes, etc.

Ovalentaria is a clade of ray-finned fishes within the Percomorpha. It includes the order Stiassnyiformes. Some authors have used it for a clade including Mugiloidei, Plesiopidae, Blenniiformes, Atherinomorpha, and Cichlidae. It was named by W. L. Smith and T. J. Near in Wainwright in 2012.

Yellowhead jawfish (Opistognathus aurifrons)

Classification change

Atheriniformes change

Taxonomy change

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Clade: Percomorpha
(unranked): Ovalentaria

References change

  1. J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 752. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.