NOAA National Benthic Inventory

Taxonomy and Nomenclature

Kingdom: Animalia
Rank: Superfamily

Taxonomic Status

Current Standing: valid
Credibility Rating: TWG standards met
Global Species Completeness: complete
Latest Record Review: 2005

Taxonomic Heirarchy

  Suborder - Cottoidei
  Order - Scorpaeniformes
  Superorder - Acanthopterygii
  Class - Teleostei
  Superclass - Actinopterygii
  Infraphylum - Gnathostomata
  Subphylum - Vertebrata
  Phylum - Chordata
  Infrakingdom - Deuterostomia
  Subkingdom - Bilateria
  Kingdom - Animalia

      Direct Children

      Family - Cottidae
      Family - Comephoridae
      Family - Psychrolutidae
      Family - Agonidae
      Family - Rhamphocottidae
      Family - Ereuniidae
      Family - Hemitripteridae
      Family - Bathylutichthyidae
      Family - Abyssocottidae