Lampriformes
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Lampriformes is an order of ray-finned fishes. Members are commonly known as lampriforms, and include such open-ocean and partially deep-sea Teleostei as the opahs, sailfin velifer, crestfishes, ribbo
Lampris guttatus on Faroese stamp FO 546 by Astrid Andreasen
Reconstruction of Analectis pala, the youngest-known member of the extinct bathysome Turkmenidae, which dates from the Late Oligocene
Giant oarfish, Regalecus glesne (Regalecidae), caught in 1996 off Coronado, California
Scalloped ribbonfish, Zu cristatus (Trachipteridae)
Acanthomorpha
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Acanthomorpha is an extraordinarily diverse taxon of teleost fishes with spiny fin rays. The clade contains about one-third of the world's modern species of vertebrates: over 14,000 species.
Lampriformes
…detailed studies reveal they are not as advanced, and many authors assign them to a basal position inside the advanced spiny-rayed Teleostei clade called Acanthomorpha, as monotypic superorder Lampridiomorpha. Unlike their presumed relatives, they lack fin spines, however, and other authors have considered them to…
Percopsis omiscomaycus