Atherinoidei is a suborder of the order Atheriniformes comprising six families, with a mainly Old World distribution, although a few species are found in the western Atlantic Ocean.
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Families
The suborder contains the following families:12
- Family Isonidae Rosen, 1964 (surf sardines)
- Family Bedotiidae Jordan & Hubbs, 1919 Madagascar rainbowfishes
- Family Melanotaeniidae Gill, 1894 Rainbowfishes and blue-eyes
- Family Pseudomugilidae Kner, 1867 Blue-eyes
- Family Telmatherinidae Munro, 1958 Celebes rainbowfishes
- Family Atherionidae Schultz, 1948 Pricklenose silversides
- Family Dentatherinidae Patten & Ivantsoff 1983 Mercer’s tusked silverside
- Family Phallostethidae Regan 1916 priapiumfishes
- Subfamily Phallostethinae Regan, 1916
- Subfamily Gulaphallinae Herre, 1925
- Family Atherinidae Risso, 1827 Old World silversides
- Subfamily Atherinomorinae Dyer & Chernoff, 1996
- Subfamily Craterocephalinae Dyer & Chernoff, 1966 Hardheads
- Subfamily Bleheratherinae Aarn & Ivantsoff, 2009
- Subfmaily Atherininae Risso, 1827
References
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. 978-1-118-34233-6 ↩
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. https://doi.org/10.11646%2Fzootaxa.3882.1.1 ↩