? Gasterosteiformes
Trumpetfish Aulostomus maculatis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Gasterosteiformes
Families
See text Image File history File links Download high resolution version (918x1200, 422 KB)Trumpetfish (Aulostomus maculatus) hiding in a Porous sea rod () colony. ... Binomial name Aulostomus maculatus (Valenciennes, 1837) Trumpetfish (Aulostomus maculatus) are long bodied fish that often swim vertically while trying to blend with vertical coral, like sea rods or sea whips, and pipe sponges. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Subregnum Bilateria  Acoelomorpha  Orthonectida  Rhombozoa  Myxozoa  Superphylum Deuterostomia     Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ... Typical Classes Subphylum Urochordata - Tunicates Ascideiacea Thaliacea Larvacea Subphylum Cephalochordata - Lancelets Subphylum Myxini - Hagfishes Subphylum Vertebrata - Vertebrates Petromyzontida - Lampreys Placodermi (extinct) Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes Acanthodii (extinct) Actinopterygii - Ray-finned fishes Actinistia - Coelacanths Dipnoi - Lungfishes Amphibia - Amphibians Reptilia - Reptiles Aves - Birds Mammalia - Mammals Chordates (phylum Chordata) include the vertebrates, together with... Orders See text The Actinopterygii are the ray-finned fish. ... Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ...

Gasterosteiformes is an order of ray-finned fishes that includes a number of familiar types, like the sticklebacks, pipefishes, and seahorses. There are about 260 species in 11 families. Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Orders See text The Actinopterygii are the ray-finned fish. ... Genera Apeltes Culaea Gasterosteus Pungitius Spinachia The Gasterosteidae are a family of fishes including the Sticklebacks. ... Species See text. ... Species See text. ...

In the gasterosteiformes, the Pelvis is never attached to the cleithra directly, and the supramaxillary, orbitosphenoid, and basisphenoid bones are absent. The body is often partly or completely covered with dermal plates. Human male pelvis, viewed from front Human female pelvis, viewed from front The pelvis is the bony structure located at the base of the spine (properly known as the caudal end). ...

The two suborders Gasterosteoidei and Syngnathoidei have also been ranked as two closely-related orders.

Etymology

Gasterosteiformes means stomach-bone shaped is derived from the Greek words gaster (stomach), osteon (bone) and the Latin word forma (shape). In historical linguistics, etymology is the study of the origins of words. ... Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...

Families

• Suborder Gasterosteoidei
  • Family Aulorhynchidae (tubesnouts and tubenoses)
  • Family Gasterosteidae (sticklebacks)
  • Family Hypoptychidae (sand eels)

• Suborder Syngnathoidei (seahorses and pipefishes)
  • Family Aulostomoidae (cornetfishes and trumpetfishes)
  • Family Centriscoidae (razorfishes, shrimpfishes and snipefishes)
  • Family Fistulariidae (cornetfishes)
  • Family Indostomidae
  • Family Macroramphosidae (snipefishes)
  • Family Pegasidae (dragonfishes and sea moths)
  • Family Solenostomidae (false pipefishes, ghost pipefishes and tubemouth fishes)
  • Family Syngnathidae (pipefishes and seahorses)

Genera Apeltes Culaea Gasterosteus Pungitius Spinachia The Gasterosteidae are a family of fishes including the Sticklebacks. ... Procellariiformes (from the Latin procella, a storm) is an order of birds formerly called Tubinares and still called tubenoses in English. ... Genera Apeltes Culaea Gasterosteus Pungitius Spinachia The Gasterosteidae are a family of fishes including the Sticklebacks. ... Genera Apeltes Culaea Gasterosteus Pungitius Spinachia The Gasterosteidae are a family of fishes including the Sticklebacks. ... Sand Eel or Sandeel is the common name used for a considerable number of species of fish. ... Species See text. ... Species See text. ... Binomial name Aulostomus maculatus (Valenciennes, 1837) Trumpetfish (Aulostomus maculatus) are long bodied fish that often swim vertically while trying to blend with vertical coral, like sea rods or sea whips, and pipe sponges. ... Razorfish Inc. ... Shrimpfish, also called Razorfish, are a set of four small tropical marine fish of the family Centriscidae and are found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. ... Species Indostomus crocodilus Indostomus paradoxus Indostomus spinosus The family of fishes Indostomidae is very small. ... The common name dragonfish may refer to several unrelated groups of fishes: Barbeled dragonfishes, small bioluminescent deep-sea stomiiform fishes of the family Stomiidae Arowana, large freshwater osteoglossiform fishes of the family Osteoglossidae Lionfishes, showy, venomous marine scorpaeniform fishes of the genera Pterois and Dendrochirus, family Scorpaenidae Several species of... Syngnathidae is a family of fishes, including seahorses, pipehorse, pipefish and sea dragons, among others. ... Species See text. ... Species See text. ...

Reference

• J.S. Nelson, Fishes of the World

Fishes of the World by Joseph S. Nelson is a standard reference for fish systematics. ...

External links

• Gasterosteiformes entry on ITIS Report
• Gasterosteiformes entry on Animal Diversity Web