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Taxon: Order Lophiiformes Rafinesque, 1810 - anglerfishes (fish)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Actinopterygii

Subsequent positions

Percomorphacea (Division) Wiley & Johnson, 2010 Ref: E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson, 2010: 165.

Current position

Pediculati ([unranked]) Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 250.

Alternative positions

Actinopterygii (Class) Woodward, 1891 Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer & J.D. Fong, 2011: 31.
Actinopterygii (Subclass) Woodward, 1891 Ref: R.A. Fritzsche, 1982: 892.
Osteichthyes (Class) Huxley, 1880 Ref: J.J. Sepkoski Jr., 2002: 312.
Paracanthopterygii (Superorder) Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman & Myers, 1966 Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 392.
Percomorphacea (Division) Wiley & Johnson, 2010 Ref: E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson, 2010: 128. [new position]

Historical positions

Actinopterygii (Class) Woodward, 1891 Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 2004-2016: 24 Jan 2006.
Actinopterygii (Class) Woodward, 1891 Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer & J.D. Fong, 2011: 31.
Percomorphacea (Division) Wiley & Johnson, 2010 Ref: E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson, 2010: 128, 165. [new position]
Pediculati ([unranked]) Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 250.
Paracanthopterygii (Superorder) Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman & Myers, 1966 Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 392.
Osteichthyes (Class) Huxley, 1880 Ref: J.J. Sepkoski Jr., 2002: 312.
Osteichthyes (Class) Huxley, 1880 Ref: N. Bailly et al., 2001: 366.
Actinopterygii (Class) Woodward, 1891 Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2468.
Actinopterygii (Class) Woodward, 1891 Ref: 1998
Paracanthopterygii (Superorder) Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman & Myers, 1966 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 607.
Actinopterygii (Subclass) Woodward, 1891 Ref: R.A. Fritzsche, 1982: 892; 1115.
Paracanthopterygii (Superorder) Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman & Myers, 1966 Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979: 684-685.
Teleostei (Superorder) Bonaparte, 1836 Ref: B. Grzimek, 1973-1975

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 18f;66g;319s; †1s
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000 [18f;66g;318s]
2004-2016 W.N. Eschmeyer [18f]
2011 W.N. Eschmeyer & J.D. Fong: 31 18f
2010 E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson: 165 [5so;15f]
1998 W.N. Eschmeyer 18f
1988 R.L. Carroll: 607 [15f]
1982 R.A. Fritzsche: 892 3so;15[16]f;[59g];215s
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