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Relating to, or resembling, fish of suborder Percesoces, including gray mullets, barracudas, and silversides..
It is possible that it may have been an early offshoot from a Percesocine or Acanthopterygian stock, and cognate with the Hemibranchii; but too little is known of its anatomy to warrant an authoritative opinion.
Regan (1913) classified the percesocine fishes as two suborders of his order Percomorphi.
The placement and relationships of the atherinoid (sometimes called percesocine) fishes are still in dispute.
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Percesocine means Relating to, or resembling, fish of suborder Percesoces, including gray mullets, barracudas, and silversides..
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It is possible that it may have been an early offshoot from a Percesocine or Acanthopterygian stock, and cognate with the Hemibranchii; but too little is known of its anatomy to warrant an authoritative opinion.
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