ACTINOPTERYGII
(ray-finned fishes)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
ACIPENSERIFORMES
an order of bony fishes
Order 1 subtaxa 1 ident. refs
CYPRINIFORMES
an order of bony fishes
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 		Order 6 subtaxa 11 images 6 ident. refs
MUGILIFORMES
an order of bony fishes
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 		Order 1 subtaxa 26 images 1 ident. refs
OSMERIFORMES
an order of bony fishes
Order 1 subtaxa 1 ident. refs
OSMERIDAE
smelts
Family 1 subtaxa 1 ident. refs
SILURIFORMES
an order of bony fishes
Order 1 subtaxa 1 ident. refs
SILURIDAE
wels
Family 1 subtaxa 1 ident. refs
Teleostei
teleost fishes
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 		Infraclass 20 subtaxa 266 images 5 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
ClassACTINOPTERYGII (ray-finned fishes)
Informal[Pisces] (fishes)
SuperclassGNATHOSTOMATA (jawed craniates)
SubphylumVERTEBRATA (vertebrates)
PhylumCHORDATA (vertebrates)
SuperphylumDEUTEROSTOMIA (deuterostomes)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Jenkins, J.T. 1925 The fishes of the British Isles both freshwater and salt
Maitland, P.S. & Herdson, D. Key to the Marine and Freshwater Fishes of Britain and Ireland 480pp, Environment Agency

Marine

() Wheeler, A. (Illust: Stebbing, P.) 1994 Field Key to the Shore Fishes of the British Isles 41pp, Field Studies Council

Planktonic Stages

Todd, C.D., Laverack, M.S. & Boxshall, G. 1996 Coastal Marine Zooplankton: A Practical Manual for Students 2nd edition, 106pp, Cambridge University Press

ACTINOPTERYGII (ray-finned fishes) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for ACTINOPTERYGII (ray-finned fishes)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 109 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for ACTINOPTERYGII (ray-finned fishes)
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