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Osmeriformes - English
URL: http://cichlidresearch.com/fish_html/oosmerif.html

The Order Osmeriformes contains these Families: Argentinidae [argentines or herring smelts], Microstomatidae [microstomatids], Bathylagidae [deap-sea smelts], Opisthoproctidae [barreleyes or spookfishes], Leptochilichthyidae [leptochilichthyids], Alepocephalidae [slickheads], Platytroctidae [platytroctids], Osmeridae [smelts], Salangidae [icefishes or noodlefishes], Sundasalangidae [Sundaland noodlefishes], Retropinnidae [New Zealand smelts], Lepidogalaxiidae [salamanderfishes], Galaxiidae [galaxiids].

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Order Summary for Osmeriformes - English
URL: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/OrdersSummary.cfm?order=Osmeriformes

Maxilla included in gape of mouth (the toothless maxilla is excluded from the gape in Protroctes and Lovettia and almost so in Aplochiton; adipose fin present or absent; radii absent on scales; loss of basisphenoid and orbitosphenoid bones.

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Osmeriformes - English
URL: http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/pisces/actinopterygii/osmeriformes/

List of taxa.

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