Order Summary for Stephanoberyciformes

  Main Ref
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  Order
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Stephanoberyciformes pricklefishes, bigscales and gibberfishes
  Class
:
Teleostei
  Sister Order
:
Beryciformes 70 M years
  Ref.
:
  First Fossil Record
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  Occurs in
:
Marine
Fresh
Brackish
  Remark
:
Body usually roundish; palate toothless; skull bones, in general, exceptionally thin; orbitosphenoid absent (except in Hispidoberyx; subocular shelf absent; supramaxilla absent or reduced.
  Class etymology
:
Greek aktis = ray, thunderbolt, beam + Greek pterygion, diminutive of pteryx = wing, fin. Ref. 45335.
  Order etymology
:
Greek, stephanos = crown + Greek, Greek, beryx or berys = a name of a fish, in reference to Berycidae with thin osseus ridges on the head.
  Families
:
( n = 4 ) -

Ref.
[ e.g. 9948]                       
Glossary
                    [ e.g. cephalopods]

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