Zeiformes Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Zeiforms
: Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : 'Zeiformes'\
Families
Suborder Zeioidei Parazenidae Macrurocyttidae Zeidae (dories) Oreosomatidae (oreos) Grammicolepididae Suborder Caproidei Caproidae (boarfishes)

Zeiformes is a small order of marine ray-finned fishes most notable for the dories, a common food fish. The order consists of about 40 species in six families, mostly deep-sea types.

Zeiform bodies are usually thin and deep. Mouths are large, with distensible jaws, and there is no orbitosphenoid. Pelvic fins have 5-10 soft rays and possibly a spine, 5-10 dorsal fin spines and up to 4 anal fin spines.

The classification of the boarfishes (Caproidae) in this order is uncertain, since they have many perciform characters, for instance in the caudal skeleton.

Reference

• J.S. Nelson, Fishes of the World

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