{{Short description|Superfamily of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Siganus magnificus.jpg | image_caption = ''Siganus magnificus'' | image2 = Scatophagus argus (Wroclaw zoo)-2.JPG | image2_caption = ''Scatophagus argus'' | taxon = Siganoidea | authority = }} '''Siganoidea''' is a superfamily belonging to the suborder Acanthuroidei which in turn is part of the order Acanthuriformes. It contains two families of largely Indo-Pacific distribution.

==Taxonomy== Siganoidea is recognised by the 5th edition of the Fishes of the World as a superfamily within the Percoidei.<ref name = Nelson5>{{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= 462–463 |publisher=Wiley |isbn= 978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ }}</ref>

===Families=== The two families placed in the Siganoidea are:<ref name = Nelson5/><ref name = VDLEF>{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer | author3 = Ronald Fricke | name-list-style = amp | year = 2014 | title = Family-group names of Recent fishes | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268078514 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue = 2 | pages = 001–230 | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 | access-date = 24 July 2021| doi-access = free }}</ref>

* Scatophagidae <small>Gill, 1883</small> * Siganidae <small>Richardson, 1837</small>

===Molecular studies=== Molecular analyses suggest that these families are closer to the surgeonfishes than to other Percoidei and place these families in the order Acanthuriformes.<ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase order|order=Acanthuriformes|month=June|year=2021}}</ref> Other workers have suggested that the two families are among those stated as ''incertae sedis'' with the series Eupercaria.<ref name = Deepfin>{{cite journal | author1 = Betancur-R, R. | author2 = Wiley, E.O. | author3 = Arratia, G. | author4 = Arturo Acero | author5 = Nicolas Bailly | author6 = Masaki Miya | author7 = Guillaume Lecointre | author8 = Guillermo Ortí | display-authors = 3 | title = Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes | journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 17 | issue = 162 | year = 2017 | page = 162 | doi =10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3| pmid = 28683774 | pmc = 5501477 | doi-access = free }}</ref>

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Category:Taxa named by John Richardson (naturalist) Category:Percoidei