Scombriformes

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

| image = Blackfin tuna, Duane Raver Jr.jpg

| image_caption = Blackfin tuna (Thunnus atlanticus)

| taxon = Scombriformes

| authority = Woodward, 1901

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision = See text

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Scombriformes, also known as Pelagia and Pelagiaria, is an order of ray-finned fish within the clade Percomorpha.{{cite book | title = Fishes of the World | edition=5th | author1 = Nelson, JS | author2 = Grande, TC | author3 = Wilson, MVH | name-list-style = amp | year = 2016 }}{{cite journal | author1 = R. Betancur-R | author2 = E. O. Wiley | author3 = G. Arratia | author4 = A. Acero | author5 = N. Bailly | author6 = M. Miya | author7 = G. Lecointre | author8 = G. Ortí | display-authors = 3 | year = 2017 | title = Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes | doi = 10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3| journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 17 | issue = 162| page = 162 | pmc = 5501477 | pmid=28683774 | doi-access = free }} It contains 287 extant species in 16 families, most of which were previously classified under the suborders Scombroidei and Stromateoidei of the order Perciformes.{{cite WoRMS |title=Scombroidei |id=151748 |year=2017 |access-date=13 May 2018 |db=FishBase}}

The earliest known scombriform is the scombrid Landanichthys from the Middle Paleocene of Angola.{{Cite journal |last1=Friedman |first1=Matt |last2=V. Andrews |first2=James |last3=Saad |first3=Hadeel |last4=El-Sayed |first4=Sanaa |date=2023-06-16 |title=The Cretaceous–Paleogene transition in spiny-rayed fishes: surveying "Patterson's Gap" in the acanthomorph skeletal record André Dumont medalist lecture 2018 |url=https://popups.uliege.be/1374-8505/index.php?id=7048 |journal=Geologica Belgica |language=en |doi=10.20341/gb.2023.002 |issn=1374-8505|doi-access=free }}

Taxonomy

Scombriformes includes the following families:{{Cite web |last=Fricke |first=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}}

Suborder Stromateoidei
Family Amarsipidae (amarsipa)
Family Centrolophidae (medusafishes)
Family Nomeidae (driftfishes)
Family Tetragonuridae (squaretails)
Family Ariommatidae (ariommas)
Family Stromateidae (butterfishes)
Suborder Scombroidei
Family Pomatomidae (bluefishes)
Family Icosteidae (ragfish)
Family Arripidae (Australasian salmon (kahawai))
Family Chiasmodontidae (swallowers)
Family Scombridae
Subfamily Gasterochismatinae (butterfly kingfish)
Subfamily Scombrinae (mackerels, bonitos and tunas)
Family Caristiidae (manefishes)
Family Bramidae (pomfrets)
Family Scombrolabracidae (longfin escolar)
Family †Euzaphlegidae
Family Gempylidae (snake mackerels)
Family Trichiuridae (cutlassfishes)
Subfamily Aphanopodinae (frostfishes)
Subfamily Lepidopodinae (scabbardfishes)
Subfamily Trichiurinae (hairtails)

= Phylogeny =

The phylogenetic relationships within Scombriformes are shown in this cladogram from Near & Thacker (2024):{{cite journal |last1=Near |first1=T. J. |last2=Thacker |first2=C. E. |title=Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii) |journal=Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History |date=2024 |volume=65 |issue=1 |doi=10.3374/014.065.0101|url=https://zenodo.org/records/8352027/files/Near%26Thacker_preprint.pdf }}

{{Clade

|label1=Scombriformes

|1={{Clade sequential

|1=Arripis

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|label1=pan-stromateoids

|1={{Clade sequential

|1=†Pinichthys

|2=Stromateidae

|3=Ariomma

|4=Nomeidae

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