Suborder Squamipennes (ray-finned fish)
Alternative spelling: Squamipinnes
Parent taxon: Percomorphi according to D. S. Jordan 1963
See also Hay 1902
Sister taxa: Amphacanthi, Bramiformes, Carangoidea, Chaetodontoidea, Coryphaeniformes, Luvariformes, Pareiopliteae, Percesoces, Rhegnopteri, Xiphiiformes, Zaproroidea
Subtaxa: Toxotiformes Zancliformes
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder