Biology Encyclopedia 
List of Teleost Fish Orders

Herein are alphabetically listed the all taxa, excluding tetrapods, given rank of order within the group of Teleostei, without regard to their phylogenetic relationships.  Effectively, this list contains all orders regarded as "fish" excluding Chondrichthyes (sharks, rays, skates, and chimaeras), Agnathans (jawless fish), and a few extinct groups (placoderms and conodonts).
Order Common Name(s) Families/Genera/Species Taxonomy Status
Acipenseriformes      
Albuliformes      
Anguilliformes      
Argentiniformes      
Ateleopodiformes      
Atheriniformes      
Aulopiformes      
Batrachoidiformes      
Beloniformes      
Beryciformes      
Characiformes      
Clupeiformes      
       
Cypriniformes      
Cyprinodontiformes      
Elopiformes      
Esociformes      
Gadiformes      
Gasterosteiformes      
Gonorynchiformes      
Gymnotiformes      
Hiodontiformes      
Lampriformes      
Lepisosteiformes      
Lophiiformes Anglerfishes 18/c.66/313  
Mugiliformes      
Myctophiformes      
Ophidiiformes      
Osmeriformes      
Osteoglossiformes      
Perciformes      
Percopsiformes      
Pleuronectiformes      
Polymixiiformes      
Polypteriformes      
Saccopharyngiformes      
       
Salmoniformes   1/11/66  
Scorpaeniformes      
Siluriformes      
Stephanoberyciformes      
Stomiiformes      
Synbranchiformes      
       
       
Tetraodontiformes      
Zeiformes      

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Literature

Nelson, Joseph S. 2006.  Fishes of the world.  4th ed.  John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

 

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