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Snooks
Common snook, Centropomus undecimalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes Suborder: Percoidei Family: Centropomidae
Genera
Centropomus Download high resolution version (801x333, 59 KB)Common snook (Centropomus undecimalis) in an aquarium at Epcot Living Seas exhibit. ... Binomial name Centropomus undecimalis ( Bloch, 1792) The common snook (Centropomus undecimalis) is a species of marine fish in family Centropomidae of order Perciformes. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ... Animalia redirects here. ... Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ... Orders See text The Actinopterygii are the ray-finned fish. ... Families many, see text The Perciformes, also called the Percomorphi or Acanthopteri, include about 40% of all fish and are the largest order of vertebrates. ... For other uses of the word, please see Genus (disambiguation). ...

The Centropomidae are a family of freshwater and marine fishes in Order Perciformes, including the common snook or róbalo, Centropomus undecimalis. Prior to 2004, three other genera were placed in Centropomidae in subfamily Latinae, which has since been raised to the family level and renamed Latidae because a cladistic analysis showed the old Centropomidae to be paraphyletic. Each of the four species(fat,swordspine,common, and tarpon) can be easily identified by their lateral black line. They are good tablefare. They are a sought after gamefish and tricky to catch. In biological classification, family (Latin: familia, plural familiae) is 1) a rank or 2) a taxon in that rank. ... For the village on the Isle of Wight, see Freshwater, Isle of Wight. ... Annual mean sea surface temperature for the World Ocean. ... A giant grouper at the Georgia Aquarium Fish are aquatic vertebrates that are typically cold-blooded; covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. ... Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Families many, see text The Perciformes, also called the Percomorphi or Acanthopteri, include about 40% of all fish and are the largest order of vertebrates. ... Binomial name Centropomus undecimalis ( Bloch, 1792) The common snook (Centropomus undecimalis) is a species of marine fish in family Centropomidae of order Perciformes. ... Genera (see text) The Centropomidae are a family of freshwater and marine fishes in order Perciformes. ... It has been suggested that Clade be merged into this article or section. ... In phylogenetics, a grouping of organisms is said to be paraphyletic (Greek para = near and phyle = race) if all the members of the group have a common ancestor, but the group does not include all the descendants of the most recent common ancestor of all group members. ...

Dating from the upper Cretaceous, the centropomids are of typical percoid shape, distinguished by having two-part dorsal fins and, frequently, a concave shape to the head. The Cretaceous Period is one of the major divisions of the geologic timescale, reaching from the end of the Jurassic Period (i. ... Dorsal Fin of the Orca A dorsal fin is a fin located on the backs of fishes, whales, dolphins and porpoises. ...

References

• "Centropomidae". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. October 2004 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2004.
• Centropomidae (TSN 167642). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 20 December 2004.
• Otero, Olga (May 2004). "Anatomy, systematics and phylogeny of both Recent and fossil latid fishes (Teleostei, Perciformes, Latidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141 (1). Retrieved on 2006-08-15.