Centropomoidei

{{Short description|Suborder of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Late Paleocene|present}}

| image = Centropomus.jpg

| image_caption = Snooks, Centropomus sp.

| taxon = Centropomoidei

| authority = Girard et al., 2020

| subdivision_ranks = Family

| subdivision = *Family Latidae _{Jordan 1888} (giant perches)

• Family Centropomidae _{Poey 1867} (snooks)
• Family Lactariidae _{Boulenger 1904} (false trevallies)
• Family Sphyraenidae _{Rafinesque 1815} (barracudas)

}}

Centropomoidei is a suborder of marine and freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the class Actinopterygii, a diverse group of vertebrates characterized by their bony skeletons. It contains a number of families that were previously placed in both the Perciformes and the Carangiformes. More recent studies have found them to form a distinct clade together within the Carangiformes, as the most basal members of the group.{{Cite journal |last=Girard |first=Matthew G. |last2=Davis |first2=Matthew P. |last3=Smith |first3=W. Leo |date=2020-05-08 |title=The Phylogeny of Carangiform Fishes: Morphological and Genomic Investigations of a New Fish Clade |url=https://bioone.org/journals/copeia/volume-108/issue-2/CI-19-320/The-Phylogeny-of-Carangiform-Fishes--Morphological-and-Genomic-Investigations/10.1643/CI-19-320.full |journal=Copeia |volume=108 |issue=2 |pages=265 |doi=10.1643/CI-19-320 |issn=0045-8511}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=BioLib: Biological library |url=https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1488360/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20220706121519/https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1488360/ |archive-date=2022-07-06 |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=www.biolib.cz |language=cs}}{{Cite web |title=Centropomoidei {{!}} Overview {{!}} Finnish Biodiversity Info Facility |url=https://laji.fi/en/taxon/MX.5086667 |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=laji.fi |language=fi}}