Atheriniformes: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Atheriniformes
- Family
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Atheriniformes
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Atheriniformes
The Atheriniformes, also known as the silversides, are an order of ray-finned fishes that includes the Old & New World silversides, the rainbowfishes, and several less-familiar families, including the unusual Phallostethidae. The order includes at least 354 species. They are found worldwide in tropical and temperate marine and freshwater environments.
...Atheriniformes in languages:
- Chinese
- 銀漢魚目
- Czech
- gavúni
- Danish
- Stribefiskordenen
- English
- Silversides
- Estonian
- Ateriinilised
- Finnish
- hopeakylkikalat
- German
- Ährenfischartige
- Japanese
- トウゴロウイワシ目
- Korean
- 색줄멸목
- Latvian
- Aterīnveidīgās
- Modern Greek
- Αθερινόμορφα
- Russian
- Атеринообразные
- Swedish
- silversidartade fiskar
- Ukrainian
- Атериноподібні
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Acanthuriformes
- Acipenseriformes
- Acropomatiformes
- Aesopichthyidae
- Aethalionopsis
- Alepocephaliformes
- Amiiformes
- Anabantiformes
- Argentiniformes
- Aspidorhynchiformes
- Ateleopodiformes
- Atheriniformes
- Aulopiformes
- Batrachoidiformes
- Beloniformes
- Beryciformes
- Blenniiformes
- Caesioscorpididae
- Carangiformes
- Centrarchiformes
- Characiformes
- Cichliformes
- Clupeiformes
- Cypriniformes
- Cyprinodontiformes
- Elopomorpha
- Esociformes
- Gadiformes
- Galaxiiformes
- Gobiesociformes
- Gobiiformes
- Gonorynchiformes
- Gymnotiformes
- Hiodontiformes
- Holocentriformes
- Kurtiformes
- Lampriformes
- Lepidogalaxiiformes
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lophiiformes
- Mugiliformes
- Myctophiformes
- Ophidiiformes
- Osmeriformes
- Osteoglossiformes
- Perciformes
- Percopsiformes
- Polymixiiformes
- Polypteriformes
- Pycnodontiformes
- Pycnodus
- Saccopharyngiformes
- Salmoniformes
- Scombriformes
- Siluriformes
- Stomiiformes
- Stylephoriformes
- Synbranchiformes
- Syngnathiformes
- Tetraodontiformes
- Trachichthyiformes
- Zeiformes