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• Cobitidae, family Cobitidae go
  loaches
  
• Cyprinidae, family Cyprinidae go
  a family of fish including: carp
  
• Electrophoridae, family Electrophoridae go
  small family comprising the electric eels
  
• Catostomidae, family Catostomidae go
  suckers
  
• Cyprinodontidae, family Cyprinodontidae go
  large family of small soft-finned fishes
  
• Poeciliidae, family Poeciliidae go
  topminnows
  
• Holocentridae, family Holocentridae go
  squirrelfishes and soldierfishes
  
• Anomalopidae, family Anomalopidae go
  a family of fish including: flashlight fishes
  
• Zeidae, family Zeidae go
  a family of fish in the order Zeomorphi
  
• Caproidae, family Caproidae go
  boarfishes
  
• Fistulariidae, family Fistulariidae go
  cornetfishes
  
• Gasterosteidae, family Gasterosteidae go
  sticklebacks
  
• Syngnathidae, family Syngnathidae go
  pipefishes
  
• Macrorhamphosidae, family Macrorhamphosidae go
  bellows fishes
  
• Centriscidae, family Centriscidae go
  shrimpfishes
  
• Aulostomidae, family Aulostomidae go
  trumpetfishes
  
• Petromyzontidae, family Petromyzontidae go
  lampreys
  
• Myxinidae, family Myxinidae go
  slime-producing marine animals: hagfishes
  
• Chimaeridae, family Chimaeridae go
  a family of Holocephali
  
• Hexanchidae, family Hexanchidae go
  primitive sharks
  
• Lamnidae, family Lamnidae go
  oceanic sharks
  
• Isuridae, family Isuridae go
  in some classifications another name for the family Lamnidae
  
• Cetorhinidae, family Cetorhinidae go
  in some older classifications considered the family of the basking sharks
  
• Alopiidae, family Alopiidae go
  thresher sharks
  
• Orectolobidae, family Orectolobidae go
  nurse sharks and carpet sharks
  
• Carchariidae, family Carchariidae, Odontaspididae, family Odontaspididae go
  sand sharks
  
• Rhincodontidae, family Rhincodontidae go
  small-toothed sharks comprising only one species
  
• Scyliorhinidae, family Scyliorhinidae go
  small bottom-dwelling sharks
  
• Carcharhinidae, family Carcharhinidae go
  largest family of living sharks
  
• Triakidae, family Triakidae go
  small sharks with smooth skins and lacking spines on their dorsal fins
  
• Squalidae, family Squalidae go
  dogfishes having a spine in each dorsal fin
  
• Sphyrnidae, family Sphyrnidae go
  hammerhead sharks
  
• Squatinidae, family Squatinidae go
  bottom-dwelling ray-like sharks
  
• Torpedinidae, family Torpedinidae go
  electric rays
  
• Pristidae, family Pristidae go
  large primitive rays with elongated snouts
  
• Rhinobatidae, family Rhinobatidae go
  primitive rays with guitar-shaped bodies
  
• Dasyatidae, family Dasyatidae go
  sting rays
  
• Myliobatidae, family Myliobatidae go
  eagle rays
  
• Mobulidae, family Mobulidae go
  large rays lacking venomous spines: mantas
  
• Rajidae, family Rajidae go
  bottom-dwelling tropical rays: skates
  
• Latimeridae, family Latimeridae go
  extinct except for the coelacanth
  
• Ceratodontidae, family Ceratodontidae go
  lungfishes having hornlike ridges on the teeth
  
• Siluridae, family Siluridae go
  Old World catfishes
  
• Ameiuridae, family Ameiuridae go
  North American catfishes
  
• Laricariidae, family Laricariidae go
  armored catfish
  
• Ariidae, family Ariidae go
  sea catfishes
  
• Gadidae, family Gadidae go
  large family of important mostly marine food fishes
  
• Macrouridae, family Macrouridae, Macruridae, family Macruridae go
  grenadiers
  
• Anguillidae, family Anguillidae go
  eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn
  
• Muraenidae, family Muraenidae go
  marine eels
  
• Congridae, family Congridae go
  marine eels
  
• Gonorhynchidae, family Gonorhynchidae go
  coextensive with the genus Gonorhynchus
  
• Clupeidae, family Clupeidae go
  herrings
  
• Engraulidae, family Engraulidae go
  anchovies
  
• Salmonidae, family Salmonidae go
  salmon and trout
  
• Coregonidae, family Coregonidae go
  soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes
  
• Osmeridae, family Osmeridae go
  smelts
  
• Elopidae, family Elopidae go
  tarpons and ladyfishes
  
• Albulidae, family Albulidae go
  bonefish
  
• Argentinidae, family Argentinidae go
  small marine soft-finned fishes with long silvery bodies
  
• Myctophidae, family Myctophidae go
  deep-sea fishes comprising the lantern fishes
  
• Synodontidae, family Synodontidae go
  soft-finned bottom-dwelling fishes
  
• Chlorophthalmidae, family Chlorophthalmidae go
  small family of soft-finned bottom-dwellers with large eyes
  
• Osteoglossidae, family Osteoglossidae go
  a family of large fishes that live in freshwater
  
• Lampridae, family Lampridae go
  opahs
  
• Trachipteridae, family Trachipteridae go
  ribbonfishes
  
• Regalecidae, family Regalecidae go
  ribbonfishes
  
• Ogcocephalidae, family Ogcocephalidae go
  batfishes: sluggish bottom-dwelling spiny fishes
  
• Lophiidae, family Lophiidae go
  large-headed marine fishes comprising the anglers
  
• Batrachoididae, family Batrachoididae go
  toadfishes
  
• Antennariidae, family Antennariidae go
  frogfishes
  
• Belonidae, family Belonidae go
  ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars
  
• Exocoetidae, family Exocoetidae go
  flying fishes
  
• Hemiramphidae, family Hemiramphidae go
  halfbeaks
  
• Scomberesocidae, family Scomberesocidae, Scombresocidae, family Scombresocidae go
  only sauries
  
• Ophiodontidae, family Ophiodontidae go
  fishes closely related to greenlings
  
• Anabantidae, family Anabantidae go
  small freshwater spiny-finned fishes of Africa and southern Asia
  
• Percidae, family Percidae go
  active freshwater fishes
  
• Trichodontidae, family Trichodontidae go
  two species of elongate compressed scaleless large-eyed fishes that live in sand or mud
  
• Ophidiidae, family Ophidiidae go
  eellike marine fishes
  
• Brotulidae, family Brotulidae go
  chiefly deep-sea fishes related to the Ophidiidae
  
• Carapidae, family Carapidae go
  pearlfishes: related to the Brotulidae
  
• Centropomidae, family Centropomidae go
  a family of fish or the order Perciformes including robalos
  
• Esocidae, family Esocidae go
  pikes
  
• Centrarchidae, family Centrarchidae go
  sunfish family
  
• Serranidae, family Serranidae go
  marine fishes: sea basses
  
• Embiotocidae, family Embiotocidae go
  viviparous percoid fishes comprising the surf fishes
  
• Priacanthidae, family Priacanthidae go
  small carnivorous percoid fishes found worldwide in tropical seas
  
• Apogonidae, family Apogonidae go
  bright-colored marine fishes that incubate eggs in the mouth
  
• Malacanthidae, family Malacanthidae go
  short-headed marine fishes
  
• Pomatomidae, family Pomatomidae go
  food and game fishes related to pompanos
  
• Rachycentridae, family Rachycentridae go
  family of pelagic fishes containing solely the cobia
  
• Echeneididae, family Echeneididae, family Echeneidae go
  fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships
  
• Carangidae, family Carangidae go
  large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails
  
• Coryphaenidae, family Coryphaenidae go
  large active pelagic percoid fish
  
• Bramidae, family Bramidae go
  deep-bodied percoid fishes of the open seas
  
• Branchiostegidae, family Branchiostegidae go
  small family of marine fishes having covered gills
  
• Characidae, family Characidae go
  tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and South America and Central America
  
• Characinidae, family Characinidae go
  former name of the Characidae
  
• Cichlidae, family Cichlidae go
  cichlids
  
• Lutjanidae, family Lutjanidae go
  snappers
  
• Haemulidae, family Haemulidae go
  grunts
  
• Sparidae, family Sparidae go
  porgies
  
• Sciaenidae, family Sciaenidae go
  warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout
  
• Mullidae, family Mullidae go
  goatfishes or red mullets
  
• Mugilidae, family Mugilidae go
  grey mullets
  
• Atherinidae, family Atherinidae go
  small spiny-finned fishes of both salt and fresh water
  
• Sphyraenidae, family Sphyraenidae go
  monotypic family of large active fishes of tropical and subtropical waters: barracuda
  
• Pempheridae, family Pempheridae go
  sweepers
  
• Kyphosidae, family Kyphosidae go
  sea chubs
  
• Ephippidae, family Ephippidae go
  small family comprising the spadefishes
  
• Chaetodontidae, family Chaetodontidae go
  butterfly fishes
  
• Pomacentridae, family Pomacentridae go
  damselfishes
  
• Labridae, family Labridae go
  wrasses
  
• Scaridae, family Scaridae go
  parrotfishes
  
• Polynemidae, family Polynemidae go
  threadfins
  
• Opisthognathidae, family Opisthognathidae go
  jawfishes
  
• Uranoscopidae, family Uranoscopidae go
  stargazers
  
• Dactyloscopidae, family Dactyloscopidae go
  sand stargazers
  
• Blenniidae, family Blenniidae go
  a family of fish including: combtooth blennies
  
• Clinidae, family Clinidae go
  viviparous blennies of temperate and tropical seas
  
• Pholidae, family Pholidae, family Pholididae go
  a family of fish of suborder Blennioidea
  
• Stichaeidae, family Stichaeidae go
  pricklebacks
  
• Anarhichadidae, family Anarhichadidae go
  wolffishes
  
• Zoarcidae, family Zoarcidae go
  eelpouts
  
• Ammodytidae, family Ammodytidae go
  sand lances
  
• Callionymidae, family Callionymidae go
  dragonets
  
• Gobiidae, family Gobiidae go
  gobies
  
• Eleotridae, family Eleotridae go
  sleepers
  
• Percophidae, family Percophidae go
  percoid flatheads
  
• Toxotidae, family Toxotidae go
  archerfishes
  
• Microdesmidae, family Microdesmidae go
  worm fish
  
• Acanthuridae, family Acanthuridae go
  surgeonfishes
  
• Gempylidae, family Gempylidae go
  snake mackerels
  
• Trichiuridae, family Trichiuridae go
  cutlassfishes
  
• Scombridae, family Scombridae go
  marine food fishes: mackerels
  
• Katsuwonidae, family Kasuwonidae go
  in some classifications considered a separate family comprising the oceanic bonitos
  
• Xiphiidae, family Xiphiidae go
  comprising the common swordfishes
  
• Istiophoridae, family Istiophoridae go
  sailfishes
  
• Luvaridae, family Luvaridae go
  louvars
  
• Stromateidae, family Stromateidae go
  butterfishes: harvest fishes
  
• Gobiesocidae, family Gobiesocidae go
  clingfishes
  
• Lobotidae, family Lobotidae go
  tripletails
  
• Gerridae, family Gerridae, Gerreidae, family Gerreidae go
  mojarras
  
• Sillaginidae, family Sillaginidae go
  small family of small food fishes in shallow waters of the Pacific around Indonesia
  
• Amiidae, family Amiidae go
  only the bowfins
  
• Polyodontidae, family Polyodontidae go
  paddlefishes
  
• Acipenseridae, family Acipenseridae go
  sturgeons
  
• Lepisosteidae, family Lepisosteidae go
  comprises the genus Lepisosteus
  
• Scorpaenidae, family Scorpaenidae go
  scorpionfishes
  
• Cottidae, family Cottidae go
  sculpins
  
• Cyclopteridae, family Cyclopteridae go
  lumpfishes
  
• Liparididae, family Liparididae, Liparidae, family Liparidae go
  snailfishes
  
• Agonidae, family Agonidae go
  poachers
  
• Hexagrammidae, family Hexagrammidae go
  greenlings
  
• Platycephalidae, family Platycephalidae go
  scorpaenoid flatheads
  
• Triglidae, family Triglidae go
  in some classifications restricted to the gurnards and subdivided into the subfamilies Triglinae (true sea robins) and Peristediinae (armored sea robins)
  
• Triglinae, subfamily Triglinae go
  in some classifications considered a subfamily of Triglidae comprising searobins having ordinary scales and no barbels (true searobins)
  
• Peristediinae, subfamily Peristediinae go
  in some classifications considered a subfamily of Triglidae comprising the armored searobins
  
• Dactylopteridae, family Dactylopteridae go
  flying gurnards
  
• Balistidae, family Balistidae go
  triggerfishes
  
• Monocanthidae, family Monocanthidae go
  filefishes
  
• Ostraciidae, family Ostraciidae, family Ostraciontidae go
  boxfishes
  
• Tetraodontidae, family Tetraodontidae go
  puffers
  
• Diodontidae, family Diodontidae go
  spiny puffers
  
• Molidae, family Molidae go
  ocean sunfishes
  
• Pleuronectidae, family Pleuronectidae go
  righteye flounders
  
• Bothidae, family Bothidae go
  a family of fish of the order Heterosomata
  
• Cynoglossidae, family Cynoglossidae go
  tonguefishes
  
• Soleidae, family Soleidae go
  soles