Zeiformes
English: Dories.
Genera: 33 species; 7 families
Habitat: marine, deep-sea.
Use: dories, a group of common food fish.
Zoology
Fish; marine; ray-finned; 43 mm, up to 90 cm.
Form: thin, deep; mouths are large, with distensible jaws, and there is no orbitosphenoid.
Fins: pelvic fins have 5 to 10 soft rays, possibly a spine; 5 to 10 dorsal fin spines; up to 4 anal fin spines.
Taxconomy
The boarfishes, Caproidae, have been formerly included in this order though they are currently included in the Perciformes.
Families
• Cyttidae: Lookdown dories.
• Grammicolepididae: Tinselfishes.
• Oreosomatidae: Oreos.
• Parazenidae: Parazens.
• Zeidae: Dories.
• Zenionidae: Zeniontids, formerly Macrurocyttidae.
• Bajaichthyidae: Bajaichthys elegans.