Labriformes

<h2 id="families">Families</h2>
The following families are classified within this order, based on <a href="/facts/Eschmeyer%27s_Catalog_of_Fishes/fpGIhCaq">Catalog of Fishes</a> (2025):<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4">4</a>

<ul><li>Order Labriformes
<ul><li>Suborder <a href="/facts/Labroidei/cQFQXlrd">Labroidei</a>
<ul><li>Family <a href="/facts/Centrogenyidae/0Wcjsh8E">Centrogenyidae</a> <a href="/facts/Henry_Weed_Fowler/G61dH0LV">Fowler</a>, 1907 (false scorpionfishes)</li>
<li>Family <a href="/facts/Labridae/gleyUjKA">Labridae</a> <a href="/facts/Georges_Cuvier/4mmE7NzN">Cuvier</a>, 1816 (<a href="/facts/Wrasse/gleyUjKA">wrasses</a> and <a href="/facts/Parrotfish/mqV6ShlV">parrotfishes</a>)</li>
<li>Family <a href="/facts/Odacidae/cQABPoYa">Odacidae</a> <a href="/facts/Albert_G%C3%BCnther/SQzexVaS">Günther</a>, 1861 (cales)</li></ul></li>
<li>Suborder Uranoscopoidei
<ul><li>Family <a href="/facts/Ammodytidae/QY4UAEGG">Ammodytidae</a> <a href="/facts/Charles_Lucien_Bonaparte/PunLn0Xz">Bonaparte</a>, 1835 (sand lances)</li>
<li>Family <a href="/facts/Uranoscopidae/J3g02Dzg">Uranoscopidae</a> Bonaparte ,1831 (stargazers)</li>
<li>Family <a href="/facts/Southern_sandfish/XQlvJ4pk">Leptoscopidae</a> <a href="/facts/Theodore_Gill/RIFNItGm">Gill</a>, 1859 (southern sandfishes)</li>
<li>Family <a href="/facts/Pinguipedidae/CGp2xDVj">Pinguipedidae</a> Günther, 1860 (sandperches)</li>
<li>Family <a href="/facts/Cheimarrichthyidae/rK9ewUoW">Cheimarrichthyidae</a> <a href="/facts/Charles_Tate_Regan/lKATc9x4">Regan</a>, 1913 (torrentfish)</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>
*Nota bene: Although traditionally considered its own family Scaridae, parrotfish have more recently been found deeply nested within the wrasse family Labridae by molecular phylogenetics, such that parrotfish are instead classified in the tribe Scarini.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5">5</a>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

<ol>
<li id="fn:1">J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 427–430. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2019-12-25. <a href="978-1-118-34233-6" target="_blank">978-1-118-34233-6</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 427–430. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2019-12-25. <a href="978-1-118-34233-6" target="_blank">978-1-118-34233-6</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">Thacker, Christine E.; Near, Thomas J. (2025-03-13). "Phylogeny, biology, and evolution of acanthopterygian fish clades". Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. doi:10.1007/s11160-025-09935-w. ISSN 1573-5184. <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11160-025-09935-w" target="_blank">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11160-025-09935-w</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:4">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 href="https://www.calacademy.org/eschmeyers-catalog-of-fishes-classification" target="_blank">https://www.calacademy.org/eschmeyers-catalog-of-fishes-classification</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:5">Westneat, Mark W.; Alfaro, Michael E. (2005-03-11). "Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the reef fish family Labridae". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 36 (2): 370–390. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.02.001. <a href="https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1055790305000400" target="_blank">https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1055790305000400</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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Labriformes