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Ovalentaria

{{Short description|Clade of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Early Paleocene|present|ref={{Cite journal |last1=Cantalice |first1=Kleyton Magno |last2=Alvarado-Ortega |first2=Jesús |last3=Bellwood |first3=David Roy |date=2020-03-01 |title=†Chaychanus gonzalezorum gen. et sp. nov.: A damselfish fossil (Percomorphaceae; Pomacentridae), from the Early Paleocene outcrop of Chiapas, Southeastern Mexico |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0895981119303001 |journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences |volume=98 |pages=102322 |doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2019.102322 |bibcode=2020JSAES..9802322C |issn=0895-9811}}}}

| image = Chromis limbata3.jpg

| image_caption = Atlantic chromis (Chromis limbata), a damselfish

| image2 = Strongylura incisa.jpg

| image2_caption = Reef needlefish Strongylura incisa

| taxon = Ovalentaria

| authority = W. L. Smith and T. J. Near, 2012

| subdivision_ranks = Orders

| subdivision = * Atheriniformes

| synonyms = * Stiassnyiformes

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Ovalentaria is a clade of ray-finned fishes within the Percomorpha, referred to as a subseries.{{Cite journal |last1=Wainwright |first1=Peter C. |last2=Smith |first2=W. Leo |last3=Price |first3=Samantha A. |last4=Tang |first4=Kevin L. |last5=Sparks |first5=John S. |last6=Ferry |first6=Lara A. |last7=Kuhn |first7=Kristen L. |last8=Eytan |first8=Ron I. |last9=Near |first9=Thomas J. |date=2012-12-01 |title=The Evolution of Pharyngognathy: A Phylogenetic and Functional Appraisal of the Pharyngeal Jaw Key Innovation in Labroid Fishes and Beyond |url=https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/article-abstract/61/6/1001/1666179 |journal=Systematic Biology |volume=61 |issue=6 |pages=1001–1027 |doi=10.1093/sysbio/sys060 |pmid=22744773 |issn=1063-5157}} It is made up of a group of fish families which are referred to in Fishes of the World's fifth edition as incertae sedis, as well as the orders Mugiliformes, Cichliformes, and Blenniiformes. It was named by W. L. Smith and T. J. Near in Wainwright et al. (2012) based on a molecular phylogeny, but the authors suggested that the group was united by the presence of demersal eggs that are attached to a substrate. Some authors have used the ordinal name Stiassnyiformes for a clade including Mugiloidei, Plesiopidae, Blenniiformes, Atherinomorpha, and Cichlidae, and this grouping does appear to be monophyletic.{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages=752 |publisher=Wiley |isbn= 978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ }}

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Classification

Based on the Catalog of Fishes (2025), with additional clade names added when necessary:{{Cite web |last1=Fricke |first1=R. |last2=Eschmeyer |first2=W. N. |last3=Van der Laan |first3=R. |date=2025 |title=ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION |url=https://www.calacademy.org/eschmeyers-catalog-of-fishes-classification |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=California Academy of Sciences |language=en}}

The sister clades to the Ovalentaria is the group of taxa called the Carangimorpharia or Carangaria, which includes the flatfishes, billfishes, and jacks among others.{{Cite journal | author1 = Ricardo Betancur-R | author2 = Edward O. Wiley | author3 = Gloria Arratia | author4 = Arturo Acero | author5 = Nicolas Bailly | author6 = Masaki Miya | author7 = Guillaume Lecointre | author8 = Guillermo Ortí | display-authors = 3 | year = 2017 | title = Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes | url= | journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume= 17 | issue = 1 | page = 1 | doi=10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3 | pmid = 28683774 | pmc = 5501477 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2017BMCEE..17..162B }}

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Category:Ray-finned fish orders

Category:Percomorpha