Order STEPHANOBERYCIFORMES

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Introduction

This order contains seven families, down from nine, as the Megalomycteridae and the Mirapinnidae were recently synonymized with the Cetomimidae (Johnson et al. 2009). Moore (1993) included the group with the beryciform fishes in his Trachichthyiformes. Johnson & Patterson (1993) discussed relationships and separated the Stephanoberyciformes from the Beryciformes, as did Wiley & Johnson (2010). However, the molecular studies of Colgan et al. (2000), Miya et al. (2003) and Dettai & Lecointre (2005) place both holocentrids and berycids within a stephanoberyciform-beryciform clade. The order Stephanoberyciformes comprises more than 100 species (Eschmeyer & Fong 2012) and occurs in all oceans; most species are meso- or bathypelagic. Nelson et al. (2016) treated the group as a suborder of the Beryciformes following Betancur et al. (2013).

General References

Betancur-R, R., Broughton, R.E., Wiley, E.O., Carpenter, K., López, J.A., Li, C., Holcroft, N.I., Arcila, D., Sanciangco, M., Cureton, II J.C., Zhang, F., Buser, T &, Campbell, M.A., Ballesteros, J.A., Roa-Varon, A., Willis, S., Borden, W.C., Rowley, T., Reneau, P.C., Hough, D.J., Lu, G., Grande, T., Arratia, G. & Ortí, G. 2013. The tree of life and a new classification of bony fishes. PLOS Currents Tree of Life Edition 1: doi: 10.1371/currents.tol.53ba26640df0ccaee75bb165c8c26288

Colgan, D.J.C., Zhang, C. & Paxton, J.R. 2000. Phylogenetic investigations of the Stephanoberyciformes and beryciformes, particularly whalefishes (Euteleostei: Cetomimidae), based on partial 12S rDAN and 16s rDNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 17(1): 15-25

Dettai, A., & Lecointre, G. 2005. Further support for the clades obtained by multiple molecular phylogenies in the acanthomorph bush. C.R. Biologies 328: 674-689

Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fong, J.D. 2012. Species of Fishes by family/subfamily. Catalog of Fishes. Online version updated 15 March 2012. http://research.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/SpeciesByFamily.asp

Johnson, G.D., Paxton, J.R., Sutton, T.T., Satoh, T.P., Sado, T., Nishida, M. & Miya, M. 2009. Deep-sea mystery solved: astonishing larval transformations and extreme sexual dimorphism unite three fish families. Biology Letters 5: 235-239

Johnson, G.D. & Patterson, C. 1993. Percomorph phylogeny: a survey of acanthomorphs and a new proposal. Bulletin of Marine Science 52(1): 554-626

Miya, M., Takeshima, H., Endo, H., Ishiguro, N.B., Inoue, J.G., Mukai, T., Satoh, T.P., Yamaguchi, M., Kawaguchi, A., Mabuchi, K., Shirai, S.M. & Nishida, M. 2003. Major patterns of higher teleostean phylogenies: a new perspective based on 100 complete mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 26: 121-138

Moore, J.A. 1993. Phylogeny of the Trachichthyiformes (Teleostei: Percomorpha). Bulletin of Marine Science 52(1): 114-136

Nelson, J.S., Grande, T.C. & Wilson, M.V.H. 2016. Fishes of the World. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons 5, 752 pp.

Wiley, E.O. & Johnson, G.D. 2010. A teleost classification based on monophyletic groups. pp. 123-182 in Nelson, J.S., Schultze, H.-P. & Wilson, M.V.H. Origin and Phylogenetic Interrelationships of Teleosts. München, Germany : Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil 480 pp.

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