{{short description|Order of ray-finned fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Early Eocene|recent}} | image = Labrus bimaculatus.jpg | image_caption = Cuckoo wrasse (''Labrus mixtus'') | image2 = Uranoscopus scaber.jpg | image2_caption = Atlantic stargazer ''Uranoscopus scaber'' | taxon = Labriformes | authority = Kaufman & Liem, 1982<ref name = Hastings>{{cite book | author1 = Philip A. Hastings | author2 = Harold Jack Walker | author3 = Grantly R. Galland | title = Fishes: A Guide to Their Diversity | page = 176 | publisher = Univ of California Press | year = 2015 | isbn = 978-0520283534}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Families | subdivision = See text | type_species = ''Labrus mixtus'' | type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758<ref name = CofFG>{{Cof record|genid=135|title=''Labrus''|access-date=14 January 2020}}</ref> }}
'''Labriformes''' is an order of ray-finned fishes within the clade Percomorpha.<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=427–430 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |access-date=2019-12-25 |archive-date=2019-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408194051/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Some authors include the Labriformes as the clade Labroidei within the Perciformes while others include more families within the Labriformes, such as the cichlids and damselfishes.<ref name = Nelson5/> This order was previously restricted to wrasses, parrotfishes, cales, and their close relatives, but most recent studies suggest that the Labriformes also contains highly aberrant groups such as the stargazers and sand lances, which are placed in their own suborder. Almost all members of this order are marine, with the only exception being the amphidromous torrentfish of New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Thacker |first1=Christine E. |last2=Near |first2=Thomas J. |date=2025-03-13 |title=Phylogeny, biology, and evolution of acanthopterygian fish clades |journal=Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=805–845 |language=en |doi=10.1007/s11160-025-09935-w |bibcode=2025RFBF...35..805T |issn=1573-5184|doi-access=free }}</ref>
==Families== The following families are classified within this order, based on Catalog of Fishes (2025):<ref name=":13">{{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}}</ref>
* Order Labriformes ** Suborder Labroidei *** Family Centrogenyidae <small>Fowler</small><small>, 1907</small> (false scorpionfishes) *** Family Labridae <small>Cuvier</small><small>, 1816</small> (wrasses and parrotfishes) *** ?Family †Tortonesiidae <small>Sorbini, Boscaini & Bannikov, 1991</small><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Laan |first=Richard van der |date=2018-10-11 |title=Family-group names of fossil fishes |url=https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/597 |journal=European Journal of Taxonomy |language=en |issue=466 |doi=10.5852/ejt.2018.466 |issn=2118-9773|doi-access=free }}</ref> ** Suborder Uranoscopoidei *** Family Ammodytidae <small>Bonaparte</small><small>, 1835</small> (sand lances) *** Family Uranoscopidae <small>Bonaparte</small> <small>,1831</small> (stargazers) *** Family Leptoscopidae <small>Gill</small><small>, 1859</small> (southern sandfishes) *** Family Pinguipedidae <small>Günther</small><small>, 1860</small> (sandperches) *** Family Cheimarrichthyidae <small>Regan</small><small>, 1913</small> (torrentfish)
Although traditionally considered its own family Scaridae, parrotfish have more recently been found deeply nested within the wrasse family Labridae by molecular phylogenetics, such that parrotfish are instead classified in the tribe Scarini.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Westneat |first1=Mark W. |last2=Alfaro |first2=Michael E. |date=2005-03-11 |title=Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the reef fish family Labridae |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1055790305000400 |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |language=en |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=370–390 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2005.02.001|bibcode=2005MolPE..36..370W |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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Category:Labriformes Category:Percomorpha