''Aulostomoidei'' is a
suborder
Order ( la, ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and ...
of the
order
Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to:
* Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood
* Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...
Syngnathiformes, which also contains groups such as the
seahorse
A seahorse (also written ''sea-horse'' and ''sea horse'') is any of 46 species of small marine fish in the genus ''Hippocampus''. "Hippocampus" comes from the Ancient Greek (), itself from () meaning "horse" and () meaning "sea monster" or " ...
s,
pipefishes and
dragonets.
Classification
There are two
superfamilies within the Aulostomoidei and they are:
* Superfamily
Aulostomoidea
''Aulostomoidei'' is a superfamily of the order Syngnathiformes, which also contains groups such as the seahorses, pipefishes and dragonets. It is one of two superfamilies which make up the suborder Aulostomoidei within the Syngnathiformes.
...
** Family
Aulostomidae
The trumpetfishes are three species of highly specialized, tubularly-elongated marine fishes in the genus ''Aulostomus'', of the monogeneric family Aulostomidae. The trumpetfishes are members of the order Syngnathiformes, together with the seaho ...
(
trumpetfish
The trumpetfishes are three species of highly specialized, tubularly-elongated marine fishes in the genus ''Aulostomus'', of the monogeneric family Aulostomidae. The trumpetfishes are members of the order Syngnathiformes, together with the seaho ...
es)
** Family
Fistularidae (
cornetfish
The cornetfishes or flutemouths are a small family, the Fistulariidae, of extremely elongated fishes in the order Syngnathiformes. The family consists of a single genus, ''Fistularia'', with four species, found worldwide in tropical and subtropic ...
es)
* Superfamily
Centriscoidea
** Family
Macroramphosidae (snipefishes)
** Family
Centriscidae (shrimpfishes)
** Family
Dactylopteridae (flying gurnards)
Other authorities subsume the Aulostomoidea, as well as the Centriscidae (including ''
Macroramphosus''), into the "long-snouted clade" which makes up the suborder Syngnathoidei while placing the
Dactylopteridae in the "benthic clade".
References
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Syngnathiformes