Concise hierarchy

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

Phylogeny

Questionably Monophyletic

Ref: E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson, 2010: 166.

Subsequent positions

Percomorphacea (Division) Wiley & Johnson, 2010

Ref: E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson, 2010: 166.

Current position

Percomorphacea (Division) Wiley & Johnson, 2010

Ref: E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson, 2010: 128. [new position]

Alternative positions

Actinopterygii (Class) Woodward, 1891	Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer & J.D. Fong, 2011: 31.
Anacanthini ([unranked])	Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 243.
Osteichthyes (Class) Huxley, 1880	Ref: J.J. Sepkoski Jr., 2002: 312.
Paracanthopterygii (Superorder) Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman & Myers, 1966	Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 392.

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, 166. [new position]
anacanthines ([unranked])	Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 243-244.
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: 2467.
Actinopterygii (Class) Woodward, 1891	Ref: 1998
Paracanthopterygii (Superorder) Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman & Myers, 1966	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 607.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	5f;104g;391s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[5f;111g;426s]
2004-2016	W.N. Eschmeyer: 24 Jan 2006	[5f]
2011	W.N. Eschmeyer & J.D. Fong: 31	5f
2010	E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson: 166	[4f]
1998	W.N. Eschmeyer	5f
1988	R.L. Carroll: 607	[3f]