Gadiformes

Gadiformes: Pelvic fins, when present, inserted below or in front of pectorals (thoracic or jugular, rarely behind in Macrouridae) with up to 11 rays; no true spines in the fins; most with long dorsal and anal fins; scales usually cycloid, rarely ctenoid; premaxilla forms the entire margin of upper jaw, protractile in some; ectopterygoid toothless; orbitosphenoid and basisphenoid absent; branchiostegal rays 6-8; posterior vertebral reduction results in posterior dorsal and anal pterygiophores exceeding the number of caudal vertebrae; swim bladder without pneumatic duct (the swim bladder is absent in Melanonus and Squalogadus).

• See Fishbase.

Families in this order:

• Bregmacerotidae
• Euclichthyidae
• Gadidae
• Lotidae
• Macrouridae
• Melanonidae
• Merlucciidae
• Moridae
• Muraenolepididae
• Phycidae