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Cirrhitoidei
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<h2 id="systematics">Systematics</h2> <p>The group was previously treated as a superfamily, Cirrhitoidea, within the suborder <a href="/facts/Percoidei/4b14aF44">Percoidei</a> of the order <a href="/facts/Perciformes/DJeXbX7W">Perciformes</a>. Molecular studies confirmed the <a href="/facts/Monophyly/pD8Yrrn6">monophyly</a> of the cirrhitoid group, but moved it to the new order <a href="/facts/Centrarchiformes/MsXJgd7Y">Centrarchiformes</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> The 5th Edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise Centrarchiformes and retains the superfamily within the order Perciformes.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p><p>In his 1995 arrangement of the relationship between the <a href="/facts/Family_(biology)/qTrn6E8E">families</a> within the Cirrhitoidea <a href="/facts/Peter_Humphry_Greenwood/sADdlMLe">Greenwood</a> demonstrated that the Cirrhitidae was likely to be the most <a href="/facts/Basal_(phylogenetics)/JQPQXpYg">basal</a> group, with the Chironemidae as the next most <a href="/facts/Plesiomorphy_and_symplesiomorphy/n5K8vSKd">plesiomorphic</a> family, with the remaining three families, Aplodactylidae, Cheilodactylidae, and Latridae having unresolved relationships within the group. A molecular study of 2004 suggested that the Latridae should be expanded to include some species from the Cheilodactylidae, and the 5th edition of <i><a href="/facts/Fishes_of_the_World/DRNmGe54">Fishes of the World</a></i> suggests that more studies should be undertaken to resolve the <a href="/facts/Phylogeny/f5vVEpeY">phylogeny</a> of all of the taxa included in the Cirrhitoidea.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h3>Families</h3> <p>Cirrhitoidei includes the following families:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Cirrhitidae/JFkIK3DK">Cirrhitidae</a> <a href="/facts/William_John_Macleay/MzMgVoXd">Macleay</a>, 1841 (Hawkfishes)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Chironemidae/kUrgbgGX">Chironemidae</a> <a href="/facts/Theodore_Nicholas_Gill/RIFNItGm">Gill</a>, 1862 (Kelpfishes)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Aplodactylidae/2RQbNAEf">Aplodactylidae</a> <a href="/facts/Albert_G%25C3%25BCnther/SQzexVaS">Günther</a>, 1859 (Marblefishes)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Cheilodactylidae/WBaQHwHM">Cheilodactylidae</a> <a href="/facts/Charles_Lucien_Bonaparte/PunLn0Xz">Bonaparte</a>, 1850 (Fingerfishes)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Latridae/8jyaeoe9">Latridae</a> Gill, 1862 (Trumpeters)</li></ul> <h2 id="characteristics">Characteristics</h2> <p>Members of Cirrhitoidei are characterised by having the pelvics fins placed relatively far to the posterior of the pectoral fins, The most ventral 5–8 rays of the pectorals are simple and unbranched, typically thickened and sometimes separate from each other. The anal fin normally has 3 spines. </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Sébastien Lavoué; Kouji Nakayama; Dean R Jerry; et al. (2014). "Mitogenomic phylogeny of the Percichthyidae and Centrarchiformes (Percomorphaceae): comparison with recent nuclear gene-based studies and simultaneous analysis". Gene. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2014.07.033. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 459. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2021-07-07. <a href="978-1-118-34233-6" target="_blank">978-1-118-34233-6</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 459. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2021-07-07. <a href="978-1-118-34233-6" target="_blank">978-1-118-34233-6</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification - California Academy of Sciences". www.calacademy.org. Retrieved 13 November 2024. <a href="https://www.calacademy.org/scientists/catalog-of-fishes-classification/" target="_blank">https://www.calacademy.org/scientists/catalog-of-fishes-classification/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. Archived from the original on 2021-03-10. Retrieved 2021-07-07. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210310195213/https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20210310195213/https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>