Ophidiiformes

Translingual

Ophidion rochei, one of the Ophidiiformes

Etymology

Ophidion +‎ -iformes

Proper noun

Ophidiiformes

1. A taxonomic order within the class Teleostei – certain fish with small heads, long, thin bodies, and a single long dorsal fin.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Osteichthyes – superclass; Actinopterygii – superclass; Actinopteri – class; Neopterygii – subclass; Teleostei – infraclass

Hyponyms

• (order): Carapidae (pearlfishes), Ophidiidae (cusk-eels), Bythitidae (brotulas), Aphyonidae (blind cusk-eels), Parabrotulidae (false brotulas) - families

References

• Ophidiiformes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ophidiiformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Ophidiiformes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Ophidiiformes at World Register of Marine Species
• Ophidiiformes at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Ophidiiformes at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• “Ophidiiformes”, in Paleobiology Database, 2026
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI