Salmoniformes
| Salmoniformes Temporal range:
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| Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) | |
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| Muskellunge (Esox masquinony) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Superorder: | Protacanthopterygii |
| Order: | Salmoniformes Bleeker, 1859 |
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Salmoniformes (/sælˈmɒnɪfɔːrmiːz/, lit. "salmon-shaped") is an order of ray-finned fishes native to the temperate and subarctic Northern Hemisphere.[1] In addition, potential fossil members of the group are also known from elsewhere.[2] It contains two suborders: Salmonoidei (containing only the Salmonidae) and Esocoidei (containing pikes and mudminnows).[1]
Taxonomy
[edit]The following classification is based on Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes:[1]
- Order Salmoniformes
- Suborder Esocoidei
- Suborder Salmonoidei
- Family Salmonidae Cuvier, 1816
- Subfamily Coregoninae Bonaparte, 1845
- Subfamily Thymallinae Gill, 1885
- Subfamily Salmoninae Cuvier, 1816
- Family Salmonidae Cuvier, 1816
The following fossil taxa are also considered much more basal members of this order:[2]
- †Barcarenichthys Gayet, 1989 (Cenomanian of Portugal)
- †Kermichthys Taverne, 1992 (Cenomanian of Morocco)[3]
- †Pyrenichthys Gayet & Lepicard, 1985 (Maastrichtian of France)[4]
- ?†Stompooria Anderson, 1998 (potentially a galaxiiform)[5] (Maastrichtian of South Africa)
Indeterminate potential salmoniform remains are known from the Santonian of Hungary.[6]
In the past, other euteleost fish such as the smelts or tubeshoulders were also placed within this order[7][8], but such a placement is now known to be inaccurate.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Fricke, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Van der Laan, R. (2025). "ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2025-02-10.
- ^ a b Near, Thomas J.; Thacker, Christine E. (2024-04-18). "Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii)". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 65 (1). doi:10.3374/014.065.0101. ISSN 0079-032X.
- ^ Fielitz, Christopher (2002). "A new Late Cretaceous (Turonian) basal euteleostean fish from Lac des Bois of the Northwest Territories of Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 39 (11): 1579–1590. doi:10.1139/e02-061. ISSN 0008-4077.
- ^ GAYET, M; LEPICARD, B. (1985). "Salmoniforme nouveau du Maastrichtien supérieur des Petites Pyrénées (Haute-Garonne, France): Pyrenichthys jauzaci nov. gen. nov. sp". Salmoniforme nouveau du Maastrichtien supérieur des Petites Pyrénées (Haute-Garonne, France): Pyrenichthys jauzaci nov. gen. nov. sp. 7 (2): 131–141. ISSN 0181-0642.
- ^ Anderson, M. Eric. "A late Cretaceous (Maasteichtian) Galaxiid fish from South Africa". Special Publication (60): 1–8. ISSN 0075-2088.
- ^ Szabó, Márton; Ősi, Attila (2017-09-01). "The continental fish fauna of the Late Cretaceous (Santonian) Iharkút locality (Bakony Mountains, Hungary)". Central European Geology. 60 (2): 230–287. doi:10.1556/24.60.2017.009. ISSN 1789-3348.
- ^ McDowall, R. M. (1976). "Fishes of the family Prototroctidae (Salmoniformes)". Marine and Freshwater Research. 27 (4): 641–659. doi:10.1071/mf9760641. ISSN 1448-6059.
- ^ Matsui, Tetsuo; Rosenblatt, Richard H. (1987). "Review of the Deep-Sea Fish Family Platytroctidae (Pisces: Salmoniformes)". Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (26).