Salmoniformes
Sign in to saveSalmoniformes (, lit. "salmon-shaped") is an order of ray-finned fishes native to the temperate and subarctic Northern Hemisphere.' It contains two suborders: Salmonoidei (containing only the Salmonidae) and Esocoidei (containing pikes and mudminnows).' In addition, potential fossil members of the group, dating back to the Late Cretaceous, are also known from Europe and Africa. Both large-sized members of this order (Salmonidae and Esocidae) are important food and sport fish of the Northern Hemisphere.
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29,152 papers- Pike and salmon as sister taxa: detailed intraclade resolution and divergence time estimation of Esociformes + Salmoniformes based on whole mitochondrial genome sequences.Gene · 2013
- Molecular analysis of ependymins from the cerebrospinal fluid of the orders Clupeiformes and Salmoniformes: no indication for the existence of an euteleost infradivision.Journal of molecular evolution · 1993
- Complete mitochondrial genome of the Kamchatka grayling Thymallus mertensii (Salmoniformes, Salmonidae).Mitochondrial DNA. Part A, DNA mapping, sequencing, and analysis · 2017
- Two complete mitochondrial genome sequences of white-spotted char Salvelinus leucomaenis (Salmoniformes: Salmonidae).Mitochondrial DNA. Part A, DNA mapping, sequencing, and analysis · 2016
- Complete mitochondrial genome of blunt-snouted lenok Brachymystax tumensis (Salmoniformes, Salmonidae).Mitochondrial DNA. Part A, DNA mapping, sequencing, and analysis · 2016
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Salmoniformes (, lit. "salmon-shaped") is an order of ray-finned fishes native to the temperate and subarctic Northern Hemisphere.' It contains two suborders: Salmonoidei (containing only the Salmonidae) and Esocoidei (containing pikes and mudminnows). In addition, potential fossil members of the group, dating back to the Late Cretaceous, are also known from Europe and Africa. Both large-sized members of this order (Salmonidae and Esocidae) are important food and sport fish of the Northern Hemisphere.
== Taxonomy == The relationship between salmons, pikes, and mudminnows has long been well-attested based on phylogenetic and morphological studies, and all three groups were long placed in the Salmoniformes. In the early 21st century, pikes and mudminnows were split from the Salmoniformes and placed into their own order, Esociformes. However, as recent studies have reaffirmed their close relationship, more recent taxonomic authorities again place the Esociformes as a group within the Salmoniformes (Esocoidei).'