Stromateoidei
Sign in to saveStromateoidei or Stromateales is a suborder or infraorder of marine ray-finned fish within the order Scombriformes or suborder Scombroidei. It includes the medusafishes, squaretails and driftfishes which associate with jellyfish, the latter families preying on them while the medusafish use them for protection while scavenging food scraps. It also contains the true butterfish, a common food fish.
Species
イボダイ亜目
Suborder
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 16
- Family
- Stromateidae
- Collections
- LACM
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States, Panama
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Stromateoidei or Stromateales is a suborder or infraorder of marine ray-finned fish within the order Scombriformes or suborder Scombroidei. It includes the medusafishes, squaretails and driftfishes which associate with jellyfish, the latter families preying on them while the medusafish use them for protection while scavenging food scraps. It also contains the true butterfish, a common food fish.
== Taxonomy == In earlier classifications, it has sometimes been treated as its own order, Stromateiformes, and some studies still treat it as such. However, Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes considers it one of two major suborders or infraorders of Scombriformes or Scombroidei.
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