The PEDIGREE of
Order Tetraodontiformes (Pufferfish, Filefish, etc.)

     (these fish have unusual forms; prob. clade with Perciformes); aka Plectognathi

 "Child(ren)":       Family Tetraodontidae (Pufferfishes)   ;   Aracanidae (deepwater boxfishes)   ;   Balistidae (triggerfishes)   ;   Diodontidae (porcupinefishes)   ;   Molidae (ocean sunfishes)   ;   Monacanthidae (filefishes)   ;   Ostraciidae (boxfishes :: incl. honeycomb cowfish)   ;   Triacanthidae (triplespines)   ;   Triacanthodidae (spikefishes)   ;   Triodontidae (Threetooth puffer)   ;   several extinct families
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/-- Superphylum Planulozoa   +====> [ 72]
/-- Clade of Bilateria and Placozoa
/   / (skip this generation?)
/-- Branch Bilateria
/-- Infrakingdom (Grade) of Coelomates
/   / or: prob. Clade Nephrozoa
/-- Superphylum Deuterostomia (Chordates, Echinoderms, & kin)
/-- Phylum Chordata (Vertebrates, tunicates, and lancelets)
/-- Clade Craniata
/-- Subphylum Vertebrata  (510 M BC - ?)
/-- Infraphylum Gnathostomata (Jawed Vertebrates)
/-- Microphylum Teleostomi (Bony fishes & Spiny sharks)
/-- Superclass Osteichthyes (Bony fishes)
/-- Class Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
/-- Subclass Neopterygii
/-- Infraclass Teleostei
/-- Superorder Acanthopterygii
/  
- Order Tetraodontiformes (Pufferfish, Filefish, etc.)
 

 
  ``Grandchild:''       Genus Takifugu (Fugu Pufferfish)
 

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