Order Perciformes
(perch-like fishes and perchlike fishes)

Scientific names for Aves taxonomy (family and below) are from The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Princeton University Press, copyright 2003. Used by permission.

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  Kingdom Animalia (animals)
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  Eumetazoa (metazoans)
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  Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
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  Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
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  Phylum Chordata (chordates)
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  Craniata (craniates)
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  Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
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  Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
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  Euteleostomi (bony vertebrates)
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  Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
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  Subclass Neopterygii
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  Infraclass Teleostei
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  Superorder Acanthopterygii
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  Order Perciformes (perch-like fishes and perchlike fishes)
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  Suborder Acanthuroidei (surgeonfishes)
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  Family Acanthuridae (surgeonfishes and tangs)
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  Family Luvaridae (louvars and luvarsus fishes)
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  Family Scatophagidae2 (butterfishes, scats, and spadefishes)
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  Family Siganidae (rabbitfishes and spinefishes)
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  Family Zanclidae
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  Suborder Ammodytoidei (sand lances)
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  Suborder Anabantoidei (labyrinthfishes)
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  Family Anabantidae (climbing perches)
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  Family Belontiidae (gouramies and labyrinthfishes)
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  Family Helostomatidae (kissing gouramis)
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  Family Luciocephalidae (pike-heads)
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  Family Osphronemidae (giant gouramis)
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  Suborder Blennioidei (blennies)
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  Family Blenniidae (blennies, combtooth blennies, and scaleless blennies)
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  Family Chaenopsidae (flag blennies)
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  Family Clinidae (clinids, kelpfishes, klipfishes, and scaled blennies)
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  Family Congrogadidae
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  Family Dactyloscopidae (sand stargazers)
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  Family Labrisomidae
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  Family Ophiclinidae
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  Family Peronedysidae
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  Family Tripterygiidae (threadfin blennies)
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  Family Xenocephalidae
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  Suborder Callionymoidei (dragonets)
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  Family Callionymidae (dragonets and scotter blennies)
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  Family Draconettidae
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  Suborder Channoidei
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  Family Channidae (snakeheads)
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  Suborder Elassomatoidei
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  Family Elassomatidae (pygmy sunfishes)
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  Family Ephippidae (spadefishes)
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  Suborder Gobiesocoidei
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  Family Gobiesocidae (clingfishes)
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  Suborder Gobioidei (gobies)
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  Family Eleotridae (sleepers)
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  Family Gobiidae (gobies and true gobies)
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  Family Gobioididae (eellike gobies)
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  Family Kraemeriidae (sand fishes, sand gobies, and sandfishes)
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  Family Microdesmidae (dartfishes and wormfishes)
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  Family Odontobutidae
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  Family Rhyacichthyidae (loach gobies)
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  Family Schindleriidae
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  Family Trypauchenidae (burrowing gobies)
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  Family Xenisthmidae
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  Suborder Icosteoidei
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  Family Icosteidae (ragfishes)
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  Suborder Kurtoidei (forehead brooders)
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  Family Kurtidae (bump heads and forehead brooders)
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  Suborder Labroidei (parrotfishes, rainbowfishes, and wrasses)
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  Family Cichlidae (cichlids)
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  Family Embiotocidae (surf perches and surfperches)
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  Family Labridae (parrotfishes, rainbowfishes, and wrasses)
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  Family Odacidae
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  Family Pomacentridae (damselfishes)
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  Family Scaridae (parrotfishes)
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  Suborder Luciocephaloidei (pikeheads)
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  Suborder Mugiloidei (mullets)
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  Suborder Notothenioidei (Antarctic blennies)
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  Family Bathydraconidae (Antarctic dragonfishes and dragonfishes)
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  Family Bovichthyidae
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  Family Channichthyidae (crocodile icefishes and icefishes)
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  Family Harpagiferidae
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  Family Nototheniidae (Antarctic blennies)
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  Suborder Percoidei
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  Family Acanthoclinidae
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  Family Acropomatidae (lanterbellies and lanternbellies)
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  Family Anisochromidae
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  Family Aplodactylidae
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  Family Apogonidae (cardinalfishes)
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  Family Apolectidae
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  Family Arripididae (jewfishes)
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  Family Banjosidae
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  Family Bathyclupeidae (deepsea herrings)
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  Family Bramidae (pomfrets)
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  Family Callanthiidae
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  Family Carangidae (jacks and pompanos)
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  Family Caristiidae (manefishes)
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  Family Centracanthidae
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  Family Centrarchidae (sunfish and sunfishes)
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  Family Centropomidae (snooks)
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  Family Cepolidae (red bandfishes)
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  Family Chaetodontidae (butterflyfishes)
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  Family Chandidae (Asiatic glassfishes)