Beloniformes

• Suborder Adrianichthyoidei
  • • Adrianichthyidae - Ricefishes
• Suborder Belonoidei
  • Superfamily Scomberesocoidea
    • Belonidae - Needlefishes
    • Scomberesocidae - Sauries
  • Superfamily Exocoetoidea
    • Exocoetidae - Flyingfishes
    • Hemiramphidae - Halfbeaks

Beloniformes is an order of ray-finned fish most notable for the flyingfishes and medakas .

Originally, the two suborders Adrianichthyoidei and Belonoidei were part of the Cyprinidontiformes , but monophyly is indicated by various characteristics including the absence of the interhyal , resulting in the upper jaw being fixed or nonprotrusible.

Reference

• J.S. Nelson , Fishes of the World