ACTINOPTERYGII
(ray-finned fishes)

Subtaxon		Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
ACIPENSERIFORMES an order of bony fishes		Order	1 subtaxa		1 ident. refs
CYPRINIFORMES an order of bony fishes		Order	6 subtaxa	11 images	6 ident. refs
MUGILIFORMES an order of bony fishes		Order	1 subtaxa	26 images	1 ident. refs
OSMERIFORMES an order of bony fishes		Order	1 subtaxa		1 ident. refs
	OSMERIDAE smelts	Family	1 subtaxa		1 ident. refs
SILURIFORMES an order of bony fishes		Order	1 subtaxa		1 ident. refs
	SILURIDAE wels	Family	1 subtaxa		1 ident. refs
Teleostei teleost fishes		Infraclass	20 subtaxa	266 images	5 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Class	ACTINOPTERYGII (ray-finned fishes)
Informal	[Pisces] (fishes)
Superclass	GNATHOSTOMATA (jawed craniates)
Subphylum	VERTEBRATA (vertebrates)
Phylum	CHORDATA (vertebrates)
Superphylum	DEUTEROSTOMIA (deuterostomes)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Jenkins, J.T.	1925	The fishes of the British Isles both freshwater and salt
	Maitland, P.S. & Herdson, D.		Key to the Marine and Freshwater Fishes of Britain and Ireland	480pp, Environment Agency
Marine
()	Wheeler, A. (Illust: Stebbing, P.)	1994	Field Key to the Shore Fishes of the British Isles	41pp, Field Studies Council
Planktonic Stages
	Todd, C.D., Laverack, M.S. & Boxshall, G.	1996	Coastal Marine Zooplankton: A Practical Manual for Students	2nd edition, 106pp, Cambridge University Press

ACTINOPTERYGII (ray-finned fishes) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

[Pisces]
(fishes)

GNATHOSTOMATA
(jawed craniates)

CHORDATA
(vertebrates)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for ACTINOPTERYGII (ray-finned fishes)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 109 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for ACTINOPTERYGII (ray-finned fishes)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Identification Works

Marine

Planktonic Stages

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