#superorder_Malacopterygii__Malacopterygii  an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays
  supertype:  #animal_order  the order of animals
  member of:  #subclass_Teleostei
  member:  #soft-finned_fish__malacopterygian  any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
     member:  #whitebait  the edible young of especially herrings and sprats and smelts
  member:  #order_Cypriniformes__Cypriniformes  an order of animals including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as a suborder of Ostariophysi
     member:  #cypriniform_fish__cypriniformfish  a soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes
     member:  #family_Cobitidae__Cobitidae  loaches
        member:  #loach  slender freshwater fishes of Eurasia and Africa resembling catfishes
     member:  #family_Cyprinidae__Cyprinidae  a family of fish including: carp; tench; roach; rudd; dace
        member:  #cyprinid_fish__cyprinid  soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales
        member:  #carp  any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
        member:  #genus_Cyprinus__Cyprinus  type genus of the family Cyprinidae: carp
           member:  #domestic_carp__Cyprinus_carpio  large Old World freshwater bottom-feeding fish introduced into Europe from Asia; inhabits ponds and sluggish streams and often raised for food; introduced into United States where it has become a pest
        member:  #genus_Abramis__Abramis  European fishes
           member:  #European_bream__Abramis_brama  European freshwater fish having a flattened body and silvery scales; of little value as food
        member:  #genus_Tinca__Tinca  tench
           member:  #tench__Tinca_tinca  freshwater dace-like game fish of Europe and western Asia noted for ability to survive outside water
        member:  #genus_Leuciscus__Leuciscus  a genus of fish including: dace, chub
           member:  #dace__Leuciscus_leuciscus  small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body
           member:  #chub__Leuciscus_cephalus  European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body
        member:  #genus_Notropis__Notropis  shiners
           member:  #common_shiner__silversides__Notropis_cornutus  the common North American shiner
        member:  #genus_Notemigonus__Notemigonus  golden shiners
        member:  #genus_Rutilus__Rutilus  roaches
           member:  #Rutilus_rutilus__roach  European freshwater food fish having a greenish back
        member:  #genus_Scardinius__Scardinius  rudds
           member:  #rudd__Scardinius_erythrophthalmus  European freshwater fish resembling the roach
        member:  #genus_Phoxinus__Phoxinus  minnows
           member:  #minnow__Phoxinus_phoxinus  very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams
        member:  #genus_Gobio__Gobio  true gudgeons
           member:  #gudgeon__gobiogobio  small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers
        member:  #genus_Carassius__Carassius  goldfish
           member:  #goldfish__Carassius_auratus  small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes
           member:  #crucian_carp__cruciancarp__Carassius_carassius__Carassius_vulgaris  European carp closely resembling wild goldfish
     member:  #family_Electrophoridae__Electrophoridae  small family comprising the electric eels
        member:  #genus_Electrophorus__Electrophorus  type genus of the family Electrophoridae; electric eels
           member:  #electric_eel__Electrophorus_electric  eel-shaped freshwater fish of South America having electric organs in its body
     member:  #family_Catostomidae__Catostomidae  suckers; closely related to the family Cyprinidae
        member:  #catostomid  a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae
        member:  #sucker  mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps
        member:  #genus_Catostomus__Catostomus  type genus of the family Catostomidae
        member:  #genus_Ictiobus__Ictiobus  buffalo fishes
           member:  #black_buffalo__blackbuffalo__Ictiobus_niger  fish of the lower Mississippi
        member:  #genus_Hypentelium__Hypentelium  a genus of fish in the family Catostomidae
        member:  #genus_Maxostoma__Maxostoma  a genus of fish in the family Catostomidae
           member:  #redhorse_sucker__redhorse  North American sucker with reddish fins
     member:  #family_Cyprinodontidae__Cyprinodontidae  large family of small soft-finned fishes; killifishes; flagfishes; swordtails; guppies
        member:  #cyprinodont  any member of the family Cyprinodontidae
        member:  #genus_Fundulus__Fundulus  killifish
           member:  #mummichog__Fundulus_heteroclitus  silver-and-black killifish of saltwater marshes along the United States Atlantic coast
           member:  #striped_killifish__stripedkillifish__mayfish__fundulusmajali  black-barred fish of bays and coastal marshes of United States Atlantic and Gulf coasts
        member:  #genus_Rivulus  killifish
           member:  #rivulus__rivulu  found in small streams of tropical America; often kept in aquariums; usually hermaphroditic
        member:  #genus_Jordanella__Jordanella  flagfishes
           member:  #American_flagfish__flagfish__Jordanella_floridae  flagfish with a dark-blue back and whitish sides with red stripes; found in swamps and streams of Florida
        member:  #genus_Xyphophorus__Xyphophorus  swordtails
           member:  #swordtail__helleri__Xyphophorus_helleri  freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish
        member:  #genus_Lebistes__Lebistes  guppies
     member:  #family_Poeciliidae__Poeciliidae  topminnows
        member:  #topminnow__poeciliid_fish__poeciliidfish__poeciliid__live-bearer  small usually brightly-colored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters; often used in mosquito control
        member:  #genus_Gambusia__Gambusia  mosquitofish
           member:  #mosquitofish__Gambusia_affinis  silvery topminnow with rows of black spots of tropical North America and West Indies; important in mosquito control
        member:  #genus_Platypoecilus__Platypoecilus  platys
           member:  #platy__Platypoecilus_maculatus  small stocky Mexican fish; popular aquarium fish
        member:  #genus_Mollienesia__Mollienesia  mollies
           member:  #mollie__molly  popular aquarium fish
     member:  #family_Characidae__Characidae  tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and S and Central America
        member:  #characin_fish__characin__characid  any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae
        member:  #genus_Hemigrammus__Hemigrammus  tetras
           member:  #tetra  brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes
        member:  #genus_Paracheirodon__Paracheirodon  a genus of Characidae
           member:  #cardinal_tetra__Paracheirodon_axelrodi  small bright red and blue aquarium fish from streams in Brazil and Columbia
        member:  #genus_Serrasalmus__Serrasalmus  piranhas
           member:  #piranha__pirana__caribe  small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals
  member:  #order_Siluriformes__Siluriformes  an order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes
     member:  #siluriform_fish__catfish  any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
     member:  #family_Siluridae__Siluridae  Old World catfishes
        member:  #silurid_fish__siluridfish__silurid  Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin
        member:  #genus_Silurus__Silurus  type genus of the Siluridae: catfishes
           member:  #European_catfish__sheatfish__Silurus_glanis  large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe
        member:  #genus_Malopterurus__Malopterurus  electric catfish
           member:  #electric_catfish__Malopterurus_electricus  freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organ
     member:  #family_Ameiuridae__Ameiuridae  North American catfishes
        member:  #genus_Ameiurus__Ameiurus  type genus of the Ameiuridae: bullhead catfishes
           member:  #bullhead  any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States
        member:  #genus_Ictalurus__Ictalurus  channel catfishes
        member:  #genus_Pylodictus__Pylodictus  flathead catfishes
           member:  #flathead_catfish__mudcat__goujon__shovelnose_catfish__spoonbill_catfish__spoonbillcatfish__Pylodictus_olivaris  large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw
     member:  #family_Laricariidae__Laricariidae  armored catfish
        member:  #armored_catfish  South American catfish having the body covered with bony plates
     member:  #family_Ariidae__Ariidae  sea catfishes
        member:  #sea_catfish  any of numerous marine fishes most of which are mouthbreeders; not used for food
        member:  #genus_Arius__Arius  type genus of the Ariidae: sea catfishes
           member:  #crucifix_fish  catfish of the Caribbean area
  member:  #order_Gadiformes__Gadiformes  cods, haddocks, grenadiers; in some classifications considered equivalent to the order Anacanthini
     member:  #family_Gadidae__Gadidae  large family of important mostly marine food fishes
        member:  #gadoid_fish__gadoid  a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae
        member:  #genus_Gadus__Gadus  type genus of the Gadidae: the typical codfishes
           member:  #cod__codfish  major food fish of arctic and cold-temperate waters
        member:  #genus_Merlangus__Merlangus  whitings
           member:  #Merlangus_merlangus__whiting__Gadus_merlangus  a food fish of European Atlantic waters resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus
        member:  #genus_Lota__Lota  burbot
        member:  #genus_Melanogrammus__Melanogrammus  haddock
           member:  #Melanogrammus_aeglefinus__haddock  important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller
        member:  #genus_Pollachius__Pollachius  pollack
           member:  #Pollachius_pollachius__pollack  important food and game fish of northern seas especially North Atlantic; related to cod
        member:  #genus_Merluccius__Merluccius  hakes
        member:  #genus_Urophycis__Urophycis  hakes
           member:  #ling  American hakes
        member:  #genus_Molva__Molva  ling
           member:  #Molva_molva__ling  elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried
        member:  #Brosmius__genus_Browmius  cusk
     member:  #family_Macrouridae__Macrouridae__Macruridae__family_Macruridae  grenadiers
        member:  #rattail__grenadier__rattail_fish__rattailfish  deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail
  member:  #order_Anacanthini__Anacanthini  at least partially equivalent to the order Gadiformes in some classifications
  member:  #order_Anguilliformes__Anguilliformes__order_Apodes  elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced
     member:  #eel  voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
     member:  #family_Anguillidae__Anguillidae  eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn
        member:  #genus_Anguilla__Anguilla  type genus of the Anguillidae: eels
           member:  #common_eel__freshwater_eel  eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked
     member:  #family_Muraenidae__Muraenidae  marine eels
        member:  #moray_eel__morayeel__moray  family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked
     member:  #family_Congridae__Congridae  marine eels
        member:  #conger_eel__conger  large somber-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food
  member:  #order_Isospondyli__Isospondyli  most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon
     member:  #family_Gonorhynchidae__Gonorhynchidae  coextensive with the genus Gonorhynchus
        member:  #genus_Gonorhynchus__Gonorhynchus  slender cylindrical marine fishes lacking air bladders and teeth
           member:  #beaked_salmon__sandfish__Gonorhynchus_gonorhynchus  fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand
     member:  #family_Clupeidae__Clupeidae  herrings; shad; sardines; etc.
        member:  #clupeid_fish__clupeidfish__clupeid  any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas
        member:  #genus_Alosa__Alosa  shad
           member:  #shad  herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to freshwater to spawn
           member:  #Alosa_pseudoharengus__alewife__Pomolobus_pseudoharengus  shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
        member:  #genus_Pomolobus__Pomolobus  genus to which the alewife is sometimes assigned
        member:  #genus_Brevoortia__Brevoortia  menhaden
           member:  #menhaden__Brevoortia_tyrannis  shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer
        member:  #genus_Clupea__Clupea  type genus of the Clupeidae: typical herrings
           member:  #Clupea_harangus__herring  commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
           member:  #Atlantic_herring__Clupea_harengus_harengus  important food fish; found in enormous shoals in North Atlantic
           member:  #Pacific_herring__Clupea_harengus_pallasii  important food fish of the north Pacific
           member:  #Clupea_sprattus__brisling__sprat  small herring processed like a sardine
        member:  #genus_Sardina__Sardina__genus_Sardinia  pilchards
           member:  #Sardina_pilchardus__pilchard__sardine  small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
        member:  #genus_Sardinops__Sardinops  pilchards
           member:  #Pacific_sardine__Sardinops_caerulea  small pilchards common off the pacific coast of North America
     member:  #family_Engraulidae__Engraulidae  anchovies
        member:  #anchovy  small herring-like plankton-feeding fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide
     member:  #family_Salmonidae__Salmonidae  salmon and trout
        member:  #salmonid  soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters
        member:  #salmon  any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
        member:  #genus_Salmo__Salmo  type genus of the Salmonidae: salmon and trout
           member:  #Salmo_salar__Atlantic_salmon  found in northern coastal Atlantic waters or tributaries; adults do not die after spawning
           member:  #brown_trout__browntrout__salmon_trout__Salmo_trutta  speckled trout of European rivers; introduced in North America
           member:  #Salmo_gairdneri__rainbow_trout__rainbowtrout  found in Pacific coastal waters and streams from lower California to Alaska
        member:  #genus_Onchorynchus__Onchorynchus  sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; coho salmon
           member:  #blueback_salmon__sockeye__sockeyesalmon__redsalmon__Onchorynchus_nerka  small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the north Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
           member:  #quinnat_salmon__quinnatsalmon__chinook__chinooksalmon__king_salmon__Onchorynchus_tshawtscha  large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning
           member:  #blue_jack__coho__cohoe__coho_salmon__silver_salmon__Onchorynchus_kisutch  small salmon of north Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes
        member:  #genus_Salvelinus__Salvelinus  brook trout
           member:  #Salvelinus_namaycush__lake_trout__salmon_trout  large fork-tailed trout of lakes of Canada and the northern United States
           member:  #Salvelinus_fontinalis__brook_trout__speckled_trout  North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe
           member:  #char  any of several small-scaled trout
     member:  #family_Coregonidae__Coregonidae  soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae
        member:  #whitefish  silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
        member:  #genus_Coregonus__Coregonus  type genus of the Coregonidae: whitefishes
           member:  #lake_whitefish__Coregonus_clupeaformis  found in Great Lakes and north to Alaska
           member:  #Coregonus_artedi__cisco__lake_herring  important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America
        member:  #genus_Prosopium__Prosopium  whitefishes
           member:  #round_whitefish__Menominee_whitefish__Prosopium_cylindraceum  bronze-backed whitefish of northern North America and Siberia
           member:  #Rocky_Mountain_whitefish__Prosopium_williamsonii  whitefish of the western United States and Canada
     member:  #family_Osmeridae__Osmeridae  smelts
        member:  #smelt  small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
        member:  #genus_Osmerus__Osmerus  type genus of the Osmeridae
           member:  #rainbow_smelt__rainbowsmelt__Osmerus_mordax  important marine and landlocked food fish of eastern North America and Alaska
           member:  #Osmerus_eperlanus__sparling__European_smelt  the common smelt of Europe
        member:  #genus_Mallotus__Mallotus  capelins
           member:  #capelin__capelan__caplin  very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes
     member:  #family_Elopidae__Elopidae  tarpons and ladyfishes
        member:  #genus_Tarpon  tarpons
           member:  #tarpon__Tarpon_atlanticus  large silvery game fish of warm Atlantic coastal waters especially off Florida
        member:  #genus_Elops__Elops  type genus of the Elopidae: tenpounder
           member:  #ladyfish__tenpounder__Elops_saurus  game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller
     member:  #family_Albulidae__Albulidae  bonefish
        member:  #genus_Albula__Albula  type and sole genus of the family Albulidae
           member:  #bonefish__Albula_vulpes  slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons
     member:  #family_Argentinidae__Argentinidae  small marine soft-finned fishes with long silvery bodies; related to salmons and trouts
        member:  #genus_Argentina__Argentina  type genus of the Argentinidae: argentines
           member:  #argentine  any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes
     member:  #family_Myctophidae__Myctophidae  deep-sea fishes comprising the lantern fishes
        member:  #lanternfish  small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night
  member:  #family_Synodontidae__Synodontidae  soft-finned bottom-dwelling fishes
     member:  #lizardfish__snakefish  tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide
  member:  #family_Chlorophthalmidae__Chlorophthalmidae  small family of soft-finned bottom-livers with large eyes; relatives of lizardfishes
     member:  #greeneye  bottom-livers having large eyes with metallic green luster
  member:  #family_Lampridae__Lampridae  opahs
     member:  #genus_Lampris__Lampris  type genus of the Lampridae
        member:  #opah__moonfish__Lampris_regius  large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean
        member:  #New_World_opah__Lampris_guttatus  from Nova Scotia to West Indies and Gulf of Mexico
  member:  #family_Trachipteridae__Trachipteridae  ribbonfishes
     member:  #ribbonfish  marine fish having a long compressed ribbon-like body
     member:  #genus_Trachipterus__Trachipterus  type genus of the Trachipteridae
        member:  #dealfish__Trachipterus_arcticus  deep-sea ribbonfish
  member:  #family_Regalecidae__Regalecidae  ribbonfishes
     member:  #Reglaecus__genus_Regalecus  type genus of the Regalecidae
        member:  #oarfish__king_of_the_herring__ribbonfish__Regalecus_glesne  thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin

No statement uses or specializes #superorder_Malacopterygii; click here to add one.