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Atherinoidei
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<h2 id="families">Families</h2> <p>The suborder contains the following families:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <ul><li>Family <a href="/facts/Isonidae/MevttNHU">Isonidae</a> Rosen, 1964 (surf sardines)</li> <li>Family <a href="/facts/Bedotiidae/L2f4PdV1">Bedotiidae</a> <a href="/facts/David_Starr_Jordan/qLNo5UIR">Jordan</a> & <a href="/facts/Carl_Leavitt_Hubbs/KCwzsJCI">Hubbs</a>, 1919 Madagascar rainbowfishes</li> <li>Family <a href="/facts/Melanotaeniidae/ttgjfjTX">Melanotaeniidae</a> <a href="/facts/Theodore_Nicholas_Gill/RIFNItGm">Gill</a>, 1894 Rainbowfishes and blue-eyes</li> <li>Family <a href="/facts/Pseudomugilidae/fAtmehqr">Pseudomugilidae</a> <a href="/facts/Rudolf_Kner/C4Y9kTWH">Kner</a>, 1867 Blue-eyes</li> <li>Family <a href="/facts/Telmatherinidae/4TL0kdb2">Telmatherinidae</a> <a href="/facts/Ian_Stafford_Ross_Munro/a5ug3mlF">Munro</a>, 1958 Celebes rainbowfishes</li> <li>Family <a href="/facts/Atherionidae/mTgD1yUe">Atherionidae</a> <a href="/facts/Leonard_Peter_Schultz/bvLKNs4K">Schultz</a>, 1948 Pricklenose silversides</li> <li>Family <a href="/facts/Dentatherinidae/4HNIcl1E">Dentatherinidae</a> Patten & Ivantsoff 1983 Mercer’s tusked silverside</li> <li>Family <a href="/facts/Phallostethidae/v4d0WUWx">Phallostethidae</a> <a href="/facts/Charles_Tate_Regan/lKATc9x4">Regan</a> 1916 priapiumfishes <ul><li>Subfamily <a href="/facts/Phallostethinae/IpQNmAmY">Phallostethinae</a> Regan, 1916</li> <li>Subfamily <a href="/facts/Gulaphallinae/PWatM3r0">Gulaphallinae</a> <a href="/facts/Albert_William_Herre/oGTNfnyU">Herre</a>, 1925</li></ul></li> <li>Family <a href="/facts/Atherinidae/yPrSnloR">Atherinidae</a> <a href="/facts/Antoine_Risso/oD8XfLUk">Risso</a>, 1827 Old World silversides <ul><li>Subfamily <a href="/facts/Atherinomorinae/j1tSmz6X">Atherinomorinae</a> Dyer & Chernoff, 1996</li> <li>Subfamily <a href="/facts/Craterocephalinae/v4ftvv2D">Craterocephalinae</a> Dyer & Chernoff, 1966 Hardheads</li> <li>Subfamily Bleheratherinae Aarn & <a href="/facts/Walter_Ivantsoff/914WDuWH">Ivantsoff</a>, 2009</li> <li>Subfmaily <a href="/facts/Atherininae/srPPPL7G">Atherininae</a> Risso, 1827</li></ul></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 358–363. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2019-06-27. <a href="978-1-118-34233-6" target="_blank">978-1-118-34233-6</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Richard van der Laan; William S. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675. S2CID 31014657. <a href="https://doi.org/10.11646%2Fzootaxa.3882.1.1" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.11646%2Fzootaxa.3882.1.1</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>