Centropomoidei
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| Centropomoidei Temporal range: | |
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| Snooks, Centropomus sp. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Suborder: | Centropomoidei Girard et al., 2020 |
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Centropomoidei is a suborder of marine and freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the order Carangiformes. Its families were previously placed elsewhere, but more recent studies have found them to form a distinct clade within the Carangiformes, as the most basal members of the order.[1][2][3]