ANIMAL ORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does animal order mean? 

• ANIMAL ORDER (noun)
  The noun ANIMAL ORDER has 1 sense:

1. the order of animals

  Familiarity information: ANIMAL ORDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANIMAL ORDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The order of animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("animal order" is a kind of...):

order ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "animal order"):

Eubacteriales; order Eubacteriales (one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria; Gram-positive spherical or rod-shaped forms; some are motile; in some classifications considered an order of Schizomycetes)

order Pseudomonadales; Pseudomonadales (one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria; Gram-negative spiral or spherical or rod-shaped bacteria usually motile by polar flagella; some contain photosynthetic pigments)

order Rickettsiales; Rickettsiales (pleomorphic Gram-negative microorganisms)

Mycoplasmatales; order Mycoplasmatales (coextensive with the family Mycoplasmataceae)

Actinomycetales; order Actinomycetales (filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria)

Myxobacterales; Myxobacteriales; order Myxobacterales; order Myxobacteria; order Myxobacteriales (an order of higher bacteria)

order Spirochaetales; Spirochaetales (higher bacteria; slender spiral rodlike forms)

Heliozoa; order Heliozoa (mostly freshwater protozoa)

order Radiolaria; Radiolaria (marine protozoa)

Amoebida; Amoebina; order Amoebida; order Amoebina (the animal order including amoebas)

Foraminifera; order Foraminifera (foraminifers)

order Testacea; Testacea (testacean rhizopods)

Fucales; order Fucales (coextensive with the family Fucaceae)

order Zygnemales; order Zygnematales; Zygnemales; Zygnematales (pond scums; desmids)

Cilioflagellata; Dinoflagellata; order Cilioflagellata; order Dinoflagellata (in some classifications considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista; in others included in the plant phylum Pyrrophyta)

Hypermastigina; order Hypermastigina (cellulose-producing flagellates)

order Polymastigina; Polymastigina (small usually parasitic flagellates)

Coccidia; order Coccidia; Gregarinida; order Gregarinida; Haemosporidia; order Haemosporidia (an order in the subclass Telosporidia)

order Sarcosporidia; Sarcosporidia (imperfectly known parasites of the muscles of vertebrates)

Haplosporidia; order Haplosporidia (an order in the subclass Acnidosporidia)

Actinomyxidia; order Actinomyxidia (parasites of worms)

Mycrosporidia; order Mycrosporidia; Myxosporidia; order Myxosporidia (an order in the subclass Cnidosporidia)

Malacopterygii; superorder Malacopterygii (an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays)

Cypriniformes; order Cypriniformes (an order of animals including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as a suborder of Ostariophysi)

Berycomorphi; order Berycomorphi (an order of spiny-finned fish in the superorder Acanthopterygii)

order Zeomorphi; Zeomorphi (dories)

order Solenichthyes; Solenichthyes (bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout)

order Ostracodermi; Ostracodermi (extinct group of armored jawless vertebrates; taxonomy is not clear)

Heterostraci; suborder Heterostraci (extinct group of armored jawless fishes or fish-like vertebrate; taxonomy is not clear)

Cephalaspida; Osteostraci; suborder Cephalaspida; suborder Osteostraci (extinct group of armored fish-like vertebrates; taxonomy is not clear)

Anaspida; order Anaspida (extinct order of jawless vertebrates)

Conodonta; Conodontophorida; order Conodonta; order Conodontophorida (extinct order of primitive vertebrates; the precise taxonomy is not clear; in some classifications considered a separate phylum)

Cyclostomata; order Cyclostomata (primitive jawless aquatic vertebrate: lampreys; hagfishes)

Hyperoartia; Petromyzoniformes; suborder Hyperoartia; suborder Petromyzoniformes (lampreys as distinguished from hagfishes)

Hyperotreta; Myxiniformes; Myxinoidea; Myxinoidei; suborder Hyperotreta; suborder Myxiniformes; suborder Myxinoidei (hagfishes as distinguished from lampreys)

order Torpediniformes; Torpediniformes (rays with bodies shaped like torpedoes)

Batoidei; order Batoidei; order Rajiformes; Rajiformes (fish with dorsoventrally flattened bodies; includes: rays; skates; guitarfishes; sawfishes)

Ratitae; superorder Ratitae (used in former classifications to include all ratite bird orders)

order Struthioniformes; Struthioniformes (a ratite bird order: ostriches and related extinct birds; known from the Pleistocene onward)

Casuariiformes; order Casuariiformes (a ratite bird order: cassowaries and emus)

Apterygiformes; order Apterygiformes (a ratite bird order: flightless ground birds having vestigial wings and long bills and small eyes: kiwis)

order Rheiformes; Rheiformes (a ratite bird order: birds intermediate in characteristics between ostriches and emus: recent and extinct rheas)

Aepyorniformes; order Aepyorniformes (huge extinct flightless birds: elephant birds)

Dinornithiformes; order Dinornithiformes (a ratite bird order: recently extinct flightless birds of New Zealand)

Insessores; order Insessores; percher; perching bird (a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists)

order Passeriformes; Passeriformes (largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeres)

Oscines; Passeres; suborder Oscines; suborder Passeres (two names for the suborder of typical songbirds)

Menurae; suborder Menurae (lyrebirds and scrubbirds)

Eurylaimi; suborder Eurylaimi (broadbills)

suborder Tyranni; Tyranni (New World flycatchers; antbirds; oven birds; woodhewers)

Clamatores; suborder Clamatores (used in some classification systems; a suborder or superfamily nearly coextensive with suborder Tyranni; Passeriformes having relatively simple vocal organs and little power of song; clamatorial birds)

order Raptores; Raptores (term used in former classifications; erroneously grouped together birds of the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes)

Falconiformes; order Falconiformes (chiefly diurnal carnivorous birds having hooked beaks and long talons with opposable hind toe: falcons; hawks; eagles; ospreys; caracaras; vultures)

order Strigiformes; Strigiformes (owls)

Caudata; order Caudata; order Urodella; Urodella (salamanders; newts; congo snakes)

Anura; Batrachia; order Anura; order Batrachia; order Salientia; Salientia (frogs, toads, tree toads)

Gymnophiona; order Gymnophiona (an order of amphibians including caecilians)

Labyrinthodonta; Labyrinthodontia; superorder Labyrinthodonta; superorder Labyrinthodontia (extinct amphibians typically resembling heavy-bodied salamanders or crocodiles and having a solid flattened skull and conical teeth; Devonian through Triassic)

order Stereospondyli; Stereospondyli (formerly a suborder of Stegocephalia; amphibia having vertebrae whose component elements are fused into a single piece)

order Stegocephalia; Stegocephalia (in former classifications a division of class Amphibia comprising all pre-Jurassic and some later extinct large salamandriform amphibia)

order Temnospondyli; Temnospondyli (formerly a suborder of Stegocephalia; large Carboniferous and Permian amphibians having vertebrae in which some elements remain separate)

Chelonia; order Chelonia; order Testudinata; order Testudines; Testudinata; Testudines (tortoises and turtles)

order Rhynchocephalia; Rhynchocephalia (tuataras; extinct forms from middle Triassic)

order Squamata; Squamata (diapsid reptiles: snakes and lizards)

Lacertilia; Sauria; suborder Lacertilia; suborder Sauria (true lizards; including chameleons and geckos)

Crocodilia; Crocodylia; order Crocodilia; order Crocodylia (crocodiles; alligators; caimans; gavials)

Loricata; order Loricata (former name for the order Crocodylia)

order Ornithischia; Ornithischia (extinct terrestrial reptiles having bird-like pelvises: armored dinosaurs (thyreophorans); boneheaded and horned dinosaurs (marginocephalians); duck-billed dinosaurs (euronithopods))

suborder Thyreophora; Thyreophora; thyreophoran (armored dinosaurs: stegosaurs and ankylosaurs)

Marginocephalia; marginocephalian; suborder Marginocephalia (includes boneheaded (pachycephalosaurs) and horned (ceratopsian) dinosaurs)

suborder Pachycephalosaurus (boneheaded dinosaurs; late Cretaceous)

Ceratopsia; suborder Ceratopsia (horned dinosaurs)

euronithopod; Euronithopoda; Ornithopoda; suborder Euronithopoda; suborder Ornithopoda (widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon))

order Saurischia; Saurischia (extinct terrestrial reptiles: theropods (carnivorous); sauropods (herbivorous))

Sauropodomorpha; suborder Sauropodomorpha (gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having huge bodies with long necks and small heads: Prosauropoda and Sauropoda (apatosaurus, diplodocus and titanosaurs))

Prosauropoda; suborder Prosauropoda (the earliest known dinosaurs)

Sauropoda; suborder Sauropoda (any of the sauropod dinosaurs)

suborder Theropoda; Theropoda (carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs with short forelimbs; Jurassic and Cretaceous)

suborder Ceratosaura (primitive saurischian dinosaurs)

Carnosaura; suborder Carnosaura (largest carnivorous land animals ever known)

Ornithomimida; suborder Ornithomimida (lightly built medium-size theropods)

Maniraptora; suborder Maniraptora (advanced theropods including oviraptorids and dromaeosaurs and possibly even modern birds)

order Therapsida; Therapsida (extinct mammal-like reptiles found inhabiting all continents from the mid Permian to late Triassic)

Ictodosauria; order Ictodosauria (extinct reptiles of the later Triassic period)

order Pelycosauria; Pelycosauria (edaphosaurus; dimetrodon)

order Pterosauria; Pterosauria (extinct flying reptiles: pterosaurs)

order Thecodontia; Thecodontia (extinct terrestrial reptiles having teeth set in sockets; of the late Permian to Triassic)

Ichthyosauria; order Ichthyosauria (extinct marine reptiles: ichthyosaurs)

order Sauropterygia; Sauropterygia (extinct marine reptiles: plesiosaurs; nothosaurs)

Plesiosauria; suborder Plesiosauria (any of the plesiosaurs)

Nothosauria; suborder Nothosauria (a suborder of Sauropterygia)

Ophidia; Serpentes; suborder Ophidia; suborder Serpentes (snakes)

Opiliones; order Opiliones; order Phalangida; Phalangida (harvestmen)

order Scorpionida; Scorpionida (true scorpions)

Chelonethida; order Chelonethida; order Pseudoscorpiones; order Pseudoscorpionida; Pseudoscorpiones; Pseudoscorpionida (false scorpions)

order Pedipalpi; order Uropygi; Pedipalpi; Uropygi (whip scorpions)

Araneae; Araneida; order Araneae; order Araneida (spiders)

Acarina; order Acarina (mites and ticks)

Geophilomorpha; order Geophilomorpha (small elongate centipedes living in soil and under stones and having more than 30 pairs of legs)

order Pycnogonida; Pycnogonida (sea spiders)

order Xiphosura; Xiphosura (horseshoe crabs and extinct forms)

Eurypterida; order Eurypterida (extinct aquatic arthropods of the Paleozoic)

Galliformes; order Galliformes (pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins)

order Tinamiformes; Tinamiformes (coextensive with the family Tinamidae)

Columbiformes; order Columbiformes (sand grouse; pigeons; doves; extinct dodos and solitaires)

order Psittaciformes; Psittaciformes (an order of birds including parrots and amazons and cockatoos and lorikeets and lories and macaws and parakeets)

Cuculiformes; order Cuculiformes (cuckoos; touracos; etc.)

Coraciiformes; order Coraciiformes (rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee eaters; todies)

order Picariae; Picariae (term used in some classifications as nearly equivalent to the order Coraciiformes)

Apodiformes; order Apodiformes (swifts; hummingbirds)

Caprimulgiformes; order Caprimulgiformes (goatsuckers; frogmouths; oilbirds)

order Piciformes; Piciformes (woodpeckers; jacamars; puffbirds; barbets; honey guides; toucans)

order Trogoniformes; Trogoniformes (trogons)

Anseriformes; order Anseriformes (ducks; geese; swans; screamers)

Anseres; suborder Anseres (used in some especially older classifications; coextensive with the family Anatidae)

Monotremata; order Monotremata (coextensive with the subclass Prototheria)

Marsupialia; order Marsupialia (coextensive with the subclass Metatheria)

Insectivora; order Insectivora (shrews; moles; hedgehogs; tenrecs)

Lipotyphla; suborder Lipotyphla (moles; hedgehogs; true shrews)

Menotyphla; suborder Menotyphla (elephant shrews; tree shrews)

order Siphonophora; Siphonophora (marine colonial hydrozoans)

Actinaria; Actiniaria; order Actinaria; order Actiniaria (sea anemones)

Alcyonaria; order Alcyonaria (corals and sea anemones having eight branches)

Alcyonacea; suborder Alcyonacea (comprising the soft corals)

Gorgonacea; Gorgoniacea; suborder Gorgonacea; suborder Gorgoniacea (red corals and sea fans)

Madreporaria; order Madreporaria (stony corals)

Cydippea; Cydippida; Cydippidea; order Cydippea; order Cydippida; order Cydippidea (ctenophores having two long pinnate tentacles)

order Platyctenea; Platyctenea (an order of Tentaculata)

Cestida; order Cestida (ctenophore having short tentacles; one family)

Lobata; order Lobata (ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage; body compressed vertically having two large oral lobes and four pointed processes)

Nudibranchia; order Nudibranchia (comprising numerous marine gastropod mollusks lacking a shell in the adult state and usually having a body like a slug)

order Pulmonata; Pulmonata (large order of gastropods usually breathing by means of a lung-like sac comprising most land snails and slugs and many freshwater snails)

order Pectinibranchia; Pectinibranchia (large order of gastropods comprising univalve mollusks that have a single gill resembling a comb)

Aplacophora; order Aplacophora; order Solenogastres; Solenogastres (an order of Amphineura)

Myaceae; order Myaceae (clams)

Octopoda; order Octopoda (octopuses and paper nautilus)

Decapoda; order Decapoda (squids and cuttlefishes)

Belemnoidea; order Belemnoidea (order of extinct dibranchiate cephalopods related to the surviving spirulas)

Decapoda; order Decapoda (lobsters; crayfish; crabs; shrimps; prawns)

Brachyura; suborder Brachyura (an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface)

Reptantia; suborder Reptantia (lobsters; crabs)

Natantia; suborder Natantia (shrimp; prawns; etc.)

Schizopoda (in former classifications a division of Malacostraca; superseded by the orders Mysidacea and Euphausiacea)

Euphausiacea; order Euphausiacea (small commonly luminescent crustaceans; important element of marine plankton: krill)

Mysidacea; order Mysidacea (opossum shrimp)

order Stomatopoda; Stomatopoda (mantis shrimps)

Isopoda; order Isopoda (woodlice)

Amphipoda; order Amphipoda (small flat-bodied semiterrestrial crustaceans: whale lice; sand-hoppers; skeleton shrimp)

Anostraca; order Anostraca (small aquatic crustaceans lacking a carapace: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps)

Notostraca; order Notostraca (small freshwater crustaceans with a shield-shaped carapace)

Branchiura; order Branchiura (copepods with suctorial mouthparts; parasitic on fishes)

Ciconiiformes; order Ciconiiformes (order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; ibises)

Gruiformes; order Gruiformes (inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes; rails; bustards)

Otides; suborder Otides (terrestrial game birds of the Old World and Australia: bustards)

Charadriiformes; order Charadriiformes (large diverse order of aquatic birds found along seacoasts and inland waters: shorebirds and coastal diving birds; most feed on anima life)

Charadrii; suborder Charadrii (shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews)

Limicolae; suborder Limicolae (term used in some classifications for migratory shorebirds; coextensive with the Charadrii)

Lari; suborder Lari (gulls; terns; jaegers; skimmers)

Gaviiformes; order Gaviiformes (large aquatic birds: loons and some extinct forms)

Colymbiformes; order Colymbiformes; order Podicipediformes; order Podicipitiformes; Podicipediformes; Podicipitiformes (grebes)

order Pelecaniformes; Pelecaniformes (pelicans; frigate birds; gannets; cormorants)

order Sphenisciformes; Sphenisciformes (penguins)

order Procellariiformes; Procellariiformes (petrels; albatrosses; shearwaters; diving petrels)

Cetacea; order Cetacea (an order of Eutheria)

Mysticeti; suborder Mysticeti (baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; humpbacks)

Odontoceti; suborder Odontoceti (toothed whales: dolphins; porpoises; sperm whales; beaked whales)

order Sirenia; Sirenia (an animal order including: manatees; dugongs; Steller's sea cow)

Carnivora; order Carnivora (cats; lions; tigers; panthers; dogs; wolves; jackals; bears; raccoons; skunks; and members of the suborder Pinnipedia)

Pinnipedia; suborder Pinnipedia (seals; sea lions; walruses)

order Tubulidentata; Tubulidentata (an order of Eutheria)

Chiroptera; order Chiroptera (an old order dating to early Eocene: bats: suborder Megachiroptera (fruit bats); suborder Microchiroptera (insectivorous bats))

Megachiroptera; suborder Megachiroptera (fruit bats)

Microchiroptera; suborder Microchiroptera (most of the bats in the world; all bats except fruit bats insectivorous bats)

Mantophasmatodea; order mantophasmatodea (an order of insect identified in 2002 in a 45 million year old piece of amber from the Baltic region)

Mecoptera; order Mecoptera (an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip)

Collembola; order Collembola (minute wingless arthropods: springtails)

order Protura; Protura (minute wingless arthropods: telsontails)

Coleoptera; order Coleoptera (beetles)

Embiodea; Embioptera; order Embiodea; order Embioptera (web spinners)

Anoplura; order Anoplura (sucking lice)

Mallophaga; order Mallophaga (biting lice)

order Siphonaptera; Siphonaptera (fleas)

Diptera; order Diptera (a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies)

Nematocera; suborder Nematocera (mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies)

Hymenoptera; order Hymenoptera (an order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc.)

Isoptera; order Isoptera (order of social insects that live in colonies, including: termites; often placed in subclass Exopterygota)

order Orthoptera; Orthoptera (grasshoppers and locusts; crickets)

order Phasmatodea; order Phasmida; Phasmatodea; Phasmida (in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects)

Dictyoptera; order Dictyoptera (in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsumed under a much broader order Orthoptera)

Blattaria; Blattodea; suborder Blattaria; suborder Blattodea (cockroaches; in some classifications considered an order)

Manteodea; suborder Manteodea (mantises; in former classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera)

Hemiptera; order Hemiptera (plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas))

Heteroptera; suborder Heteroptera (true bugs)

Homoptera; suborder Homoptera (plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insects)

Corrodentia; order Corrodentia; order Psocoptera; Psocoptera (an order of insects: includes booklice and bark-lice)

Ephemerida; Ephemeroptera; order Ephemerida; order Ephemeroptera (mayflies)

order Plecoptera; Plecoptera (stoneflies)

Neuroptera; order Neuroptera (an order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies; mantispids; spongeflies)

Megaloptera; suborder Megaloptera (in some classifications considered a separate order: alderflies; dobsonflies; snake flies)

Odonata; order Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies)

Anisoptera; suborder Anisoptera (dragonflies)

suborder Zygoptera; Zygoptera (damselflies)

order Trichoptera; Trichoptera (an order of insects consisting of caddis flies)

order Thysanura; Thysanura (firebrats; silverfish; machilids)

order Thysanoptera; Thysanoptera (thrips)

Dermaptera; order Dermaptera (earwigs and a few related forms)

Lepidoptera; order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies)

Exocycloida; order Exocycloida (flat sea urchins)

order Spatangoida; Spatangoida (heart-shaped sea urchins)

Lagomorpha; order Lagomorpha (rabbits; hares; pikas; formerly considered the suborder Duplicidentata of the order Rodentia)

order Rodentia; Rodentia (small gnawing animals: porcupines; rats; mice; squirrels; marmots; beavers; gophers; voles; hamsters; guinea pigs; agoutis)

Myomorpha; suborder Myomorpha (true rats and mice and related rodents)

Hystricomorpha; suborder Hystricomorpha (an order of rodents including: porcupines; guinea pigs; chinchillas; etc.)

Sciuromorpha; suborder Sciuromorpha (large more or less primitive rodents: squirrels; marmots; gophers; beavers; etc.)

Dinocerata; order Dinocerata (small order of primitive ungulates of the Paleocene and Eocene)

Hyracoidea; order Hyracoidea (hyraxes and some extinct animals)

order Perissodactyla; Perissodactyla (nonruminant ungulates: horses; tapirs; rhinoceros; extinct forms)

Artiodactyla; order Artiodactyla (an order of hooved mammals of the subclass Eutheria (including pigs and peccaries and hippopotami and members of the suborder Ruminantia) having an even number of functional toes)

Ruminantia; suborder Ruminantia (cattle; bison; sheep; goats; antelopes; deer; chevrotains; giraffes; camels)

Edentata; order Edentata (order of mammals having few or no teeth including: New World anteaters; sloths; armadillos)

suborder Xenarthra; Xenarthra (armadillos; American anteaters; sloths)

order Pholidota; Pholidota (pangolins; in some former classifications included in the order Edentata)

order Primates; Primates (an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings)

Anthropoidea; suborder Anthropoidea (monkeys; apes; hominids)

order Scandentia; Scandentia (a small order comprising only the tree shrews: in some classifications tree shrews are considered either primates (and included in the suborder Prosimii) or true insectivores (and included in the order Insectivora))

Prosimii; suborder Prosimii (not used in all classifications; in some classifications considered coextensive with the Lemuroidea; in others includes both Lemuroidea and Tarsioidea)

Lemuroidea; suborder Lemuroidea (Lemuridae; Lorisidae; Daubentoniidae; Indriidae; used in some classifications instead of Prosimii; in others considered a subdivision of Prosimii)

Strepsirhini; suborder Strepsirhini (in some classifications either coextensive with the Lemuroidea or comprising the true lemurs)

suborder Tarsioidea; Tarsioidea (in some classifications assigned to the suborder Prosimii)

Dermoptera; order Dermoptera (flying lemurs)

order Proboscidea; Proboscidea (an order of animals including elephants and mammoths)

order Siluriformes; Siluriformes (an order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes)

Gadiformes; order Gadiformes (cods, haddocks, grenadiers; in some classifications considered equivalent to the order Anacanthini)

Anacanthini; order Anacanthini (at least partially equivalent to the order Gadiformes in some classifications)

Anguilliformes; order Anguilliformes; order Apodes (elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced)

Isospondyli; order Isospondyli (most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon)

Order Osteoglossiformes; Osteoglossiformes (teleost fish with bony tongues)

order Pediculati; Pediculati (anglers and batfishes; spiny-finned marine fishes having pectoral fins at the ends of armlike processes and a long movable spine on the dorsal fin to lure prey to the large mouth)

order Synentognathi; Synentognathi (order of fishes having spineless fins; needlefishes; sauries; flying fishes; halfbeaks)

Acanthopterygii; superorder Acanthopterygii (teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays)

order Perciformes; order Percomorphi; Perciformes; Percomorphi (one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna)

Percoidea; suborder Percoidea (in some classifications nearly or exactly equivalent to the Perciformes which are considered a suborder)

Discocephali; order Discocephali (small order of fishes comprising the remoras)

Mugiloidea; suborder Mugiloidea (fishes distinguished by abdominal pelvic fins: families Mugilidae; Atherinidae; Sphyraenidae)

Blennioidea; suborder Blennioidea (blennies; butterfishes; gunnels)

Scombroidea; suborder Scombroidea (mackerels; tunas; albacores; bonitos; swordfishes; sailfishes)

Ganoidei; order Ganoidei (a group of mostly extinct primitive bony fishes characterized by armor-like bony scales)

order Scleroparei; Scleroparei (scorpionfishes; sculpins; gurnards; greenlings; flying gurnards)

Scorpaenoidea; suborder Scorpaenoidea (mail-cheeked fishes: scorpionfishes; gurnards)

order Plectognathi; order Tetraodontiformes; Plectognathi (boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffers)

Heterosomata; order Heterosomata; order Pleuronectiformes (flatfishes: halibut; sole; flounder; plaice; turbot; tonguefishes)

Holonyms ("animal order" is a member of...):

animal kingdom; Animalia; kingdom Animalia (taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals)