4-480: The Gempylidae are a family of scombriform ray-finned fishes commonly known as snake mackerels or escolars . The family includes about 25 species. They are elongated fishes with a similar appearance to barracudas , having a long dorsal fin , usually with one or finlets trailing it. The largest species, including the snoek ( Thyrsites atun ), grow up to 2 m long, and the oilfish ( Ruvettus pretiosus ) can reach 3 m, though they rarely surpass 150 cm. Like
8-517: The Late Cretaceus Extinction event, potentially due to tectonic plate movements. This Scombriformes -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Scombriform See text Scombriformes , also known as Pelagia and Pelagiaria , is an order of ray-finned fish within the clade Percomorpha . It contains 287 extant species in 16 families , most of which were previously classified under
12-964: The suborders Scombroidei and Stromateoidei of the order Perciformes . The earliest known scombriform is the scombrid Landanichthys from the Middle Paleocene of Angola . Scombriformes includes the following families: The phylogenetic relationships within Scombriformes are shown in this cladogram from Near & Thacker (2024): Arripis † Pinichthys Stromateidae Ariomma Nomeidae Icosteus aenigmaticus Centrolophidae † Carangopsis Pomatomus saltatrix Scombridae Amarsipus carlsbergi Tetragonurus † Bannikovichthys Chiasmodontidae Bramidae Caristiidae Scombrolabrax heterolepis † Argestichthys Lepidocybium flavobrunneum Gempylidae † Anenchelum Trichiuridae This Scombriformes -related article
16-731: The barracudas, they are predators, with fang-like teeth. The Gempylidae are broadly categorized into two clades; Clade 1, which includes more derived & elongate genera, and Clade 2, which includes more basal & fusiform genera. The Trichiuridae are an outgroup. Trichiuridae [REDACTED] Lepidocybium [REDACTED] Ruvettus [REDACTED] Epinnula [REDACTED] Neoepinnula Nesiarchus [REDACTED] Gempylus [REDACTED] Thyrsitoides Rexea [REDACTED] Thyrsites Paradiplospinus Diplospinus Nealotus Promethichthys [REDACTED] Gempylidae are believed to have first evolved at least 20 million years after
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