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Scombriformes, also known as Pelagia and Pelagiaria, is an order of ray-finned fish within the clade Percomorpha.^[1]^[2]^[3] It contains 287 extant species in 16 families, most of which were previously classified under the suborders Scombroidei and Stromateoidei of the order Perciformes.^[1]^[4]

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Scombriformes Temporal range: Middle Paleocene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

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Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Clade:	Percomorpha
Order:	Scombriformes Woodward, 1901
Families
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The earliest known scombriform is the scombrid Landanichthys from the Middle Paleocene of Angola.^[5]

Scombriformes includes the following families:^[6]^[2]

Suborder Stromateoidei
- Family Amarsipidae (amarsipa)
- Family Centrolophidae (medusafishes)
- Family Nomeidae (driftfishes)
- Family Tetragonuridae (squaretails)
- Family Ariommatidae (ariommas)
- Family Stromateidae (butterfishes)
Suborder Scombroidei
- Family Pomatomidae (bluefishes)
- Family Icosteidae (ragfish)
- Family Arripidae (Australasian salmon (kahawai))
- Family Chiasmodontidae (swallowers)
- Family Scombridae
  - Subfamily Gasterochismatinae (butterfly kingfish)
  - Subfamily Scombrinae (mackerels, bonitos and tunas)
- Family Caristiidae (manefishes)
- Family Bramidae (pomfrets)
- Family Scombrolabracidae (longfin escolar)
- Family †Euzaphlegidae
- Family Gempylidae (snake mackerels)
- Family Trichiuridae (cutlassfishes)
  - Subfamily Aphanopodinae (frostfishes)
  - Subfamily Lepidopodinae (scabbardfishes)
  - Subfamily Trichiurinae (hairtails)

Phylogeny

The phylogenetic relationships within Scombriformes are shown in this cladogram from Near & Thacker (2024):^[1]

Scombriformes

pan‑stromateoids

†Pinichthys

	Ariomma

	Nomeidae

Icosteus aenigmaticus

pan‑pomatomids

	†Carangopsis

	Pomatomus saltatrix

Amarsipus carlsbergi

pan‑chiasmodontids

	†Bannikovichthys

	Chiasmodontidae

	Bramidae

	Caristiidae

Scombrolabrax heterolepis

pan‑gempyloids

†Argestichthys

Lepidocybium flavobrunneum

	†Anenchelum

	Trichiuridae

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[1]
Near, T. J.; Thacker, C. E. (2024). "Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii)" (PDF). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 65 (1). doi:10.3374/014.065.0101.
[2]
Nelson, JS; Grande, TC & Wilson, MVH (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.).
[3]
R. Betancur-R; E. O. Wiley; G. Arratia; et al. (2017). "Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (162): 162. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3. PMC 5501477. PMID 28683774.
[4]
Bailly N, ed. (2017). "Scombroidei". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
[5]
Friedman, Matt; V. Andrews, James; Saad, Hadeel; El-Sayed, Sanaa (2023-06-16). "The Cretaceous–Paleogene transition in spiny-rayed fishes: surveying "Patterson's Gap" in the acanthomorph skeletal record André Dumont medalist lecture 2018". Geologica Belgica. doi:10.20341/gb.2023.002. ISSN 1374-8505.
[6]
"Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification - California Academy of Sciences". www.calacademy.org. Retrieved 8 November 2024.

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