Concise hierarchy

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

Current position

Cyprinodontoidei ([unranked]) Dyer & Chernoff, 1996

Ref: E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson, 2010: 127.

Alternative positions

Actinopterygii (Class) Woodward, 1891	Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer & J.D. Fong, 2011: 32.
Atherinomorpha (Series) Greenwood et al., 1966	Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 392.
Cyprinodontea (Superorder)	Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 282.
Osteichthyes (Class) Huxley, 1880	Ref: N. Bailly et al., 2001: 367.

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: 32.
Cyprinodontoidei ([unranked]) Dyer & Chernoff, 1996	Ref: E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson, 2010: 127, 157.
Cyprinodontea (Superorder)	Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 282-283.
Atherinomorpha (Series) Greenwood et al., 1966	Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 392.
Osteichthyes (Class) Huxley, 1880	Ref: N. Bailly et al., 2001: 367.
Actinopterygii (Class) Woodward, 1891	Ref: 1998
Actinopterygii (Class) Woodward, 1891	Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2469.
Atherinomorpha (Series) Greenwood et al., 1966	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 607.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	10f;119g;1048s;56ss; †1s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[10f;118g;1046s;56ss]
2004-2016	W.N. Eschmeyer	[13f]
2011	W.N. Eschmeyer & J.D. Fong: 32	10f
2010	E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson: 157	[2so;8f]
2000		82s; †10s
1998	W.N. Eschmeyer	8f
1988	R.L. Carroll: 607	[13f]
1982	R.A. Fritzsche: 895	[8f]