Alternative spellings: Percoidea, Percoidea
Parent taxon: Perciformes according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Bannikov 2014, Bannikov and Carnevale 2009, Betancur et al. 2013, Bieńkowska-Wasiluk and Pałdyna 2018, Casier 1966, Cione 1987, Danil'chenko 1960, David 1943, Day 2002, Fierstine et al. 2012, Friedman and Johnson 2005, Frizzell and Dante 1965, Hay 1902, Lin et al. 2017, Miller 1967, Miya et al. 2013, Nolf and Dockery 1990, Patterson 1964, Schaeffer 1947, Schwarzhans 2003, Schwarzhans and Bratischko 2011, Schwarzhans et al. 2017, Schwarzhans and Nielsen 2021 and Thurmond and Jones 1981
Sister taxa: Acanthonotus, Alepes, Ammodytoidei, Amphiperca, Anarhichas, Anarrhichthys, Aphia, Apogonoides, Apolectus, Aramichthys, Arripidae, Avitolabrax, Bairdiella, Banjosidae, Bathyclupeidae, Bembropoidei, Bilinia, Blabe, Branchiostegidae, Brotulidae, Burtinia, Callyodon, Chaeturichthys, Chandidae, Cockerellites, Congiopodoidei, Coryphopterus, Cottioidei, Cottoidei, Cottopsis, Ctenodentex, Ctenosciaena, Dapaloides, Diaphyodus, Eocottidae, Eoluvarus, Eoserranus, Epinnula, Grammatorycnus, Haemulidae, Haliophis, Hypacanthus, Hyperprosopon, Icosteoidei, Isacia, Labroidea, Labroidei, Landanichthys, Latellopsis, Latidae, Lithognathus, Lonchistium, Lutjanidae, Lycodopsis, Lyconectes, Maccullochella, Matarchia, Menticirrhus, Mugiloidei, Nebris, Normanichthyoidei, Notothenioidei, Odonteobolca, Palaeoperca, Paraplatax, Parapygaeus, Pararhenanoperca, Pasaichthys, Pennahia, Pentacerotidae, Pentaprion, Percalates, Perciliidae, Percoideorum, Percophidae, Phanerodon, Phosphichthys, Plagioholocentrus, Platycephalidae, Platylates, Priacanthopsis, Propercarinidae, Propygidium, Psenes, Pseudoscarus, Quasicichla, Quasinectes, Rexea, Rhenanoperca, Robertanniidae, Saldenioichthys, Scomberoides, Scombrolabracoidei, Scombrosphyraena, Scorpaenoidei, Selar, Serranoidei, Sparidae, Sphyraenoidei, Sphyraenops, Stromateoidei, Synagrops, Tetrapterus, Thalasseloetridae, Thyrsitocephalus, Trachinoidei, Trichiuroidei, Trispinachidae, Tungtingichthys, Wangia, Xiphioidei, Zoarcoidei
Subtaxa: Apolectidae Blotichthys Bradyurus Chilodipteridae Dules Ephippididae Frigoichthys Frippia Gillidia Jimtylerius Maenidae Malacopygaeus Montepostalia Oliganodon Oligoserranoides Parapelates Pavarottia Pelates Perca Percidae Percoidae Platacidae Pomadasyidae Portentosoceros Pseudopriacanthidae Sparoidea Squamibolcoides Symphysanodontidae Veronabrax Voltamulloides
Ecology: nektonic carnivore