Editing Salmoniformes (section)

== Taxonomy ==
The relationship between [[Salmon|salmons]], [[Pike (fish)|pikes]], and [[Umbridae|mudminnows]] has long been well-attested based on phylogenetic and morphological studies, and all three groups were long placed in the Salmoniformes.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=Mark V. H. |last2=Brinkman |first2=Donald B. |last3=Neuman |first3=Andrew G. |date=1992 |title=Cretaceous Esocoidei (Teleostei): early radiation of the pikes in North American fresh waters |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/abs/cretaceous-esocoidei-teleostei-early-radiation-of-the-pikes-in-north-american-fresh-waters/1886085B088AD3F7381EF8047E0A3835 |journal=Journal of Paleontology |language=en |volume=66 |issue=5 |pages=839–846 |doi=10.1017/S0022336000020849 |bibcode=1992JPal...66..839W |issn=0022-3360}}</ref> In the early 21st century, pikes and mudminnows were split from the Salmoniformes and placed into their own order, [[Esociformes]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last1=Betancur-R |first1=Ricardo |last2=Wiley |first2=Edward O. |last3=Arratia |first3=Gloria |last4=Acero |first4=Arturo |last5=Bailly |first5=Nicolas |last6=Miya |first6=Masaki |last7=Lecointre |first7=Guillaume |last8=Ortí |first8=Guillermo |date=2017-07-06 |title=Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |language=en |volume=17 |issue=1 |page=162 |doi=10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3 |doi-access=free |issn=1471-2148 |pmc=5501477 |pmid=28683774|bibcode=2017BMCEE..17..162B }}</ref> However, as recent studies have reaffirmed their close relationship, more recent taxonomic authorities again place the Esociformes as a group within the Salmoniformes (Esocoidei).'''<ref name=":1322" />'''<ref name=":0" />

The following classification is based on ''[[Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes]]'':'''<ref name=":1322" />'''

* Order '''Salmoniformes'''
** Suborder [[Esocoidei]]
*** Family [[Esocidae]] <small>[[Constantine Samuel Rafinesque|Rafinesque]], 1815</small> - pikes
**** Subfamily [[Dallia|Dalliinae]] <small>[[David Starr Jordan|Jordan]], 1885</small> - blackfishes
**** Subfamily [[Esocidae|Esocinae]] <small>Rafinesque, 1815</small> - pikes
*** Family [[Umbridae]] <small>[[Charles Lucien Bonaparte|Bonaparte]], 1845</small> - mudminnows
** Suborder [[Salmonoidei]]
*** Family [[Salmonidae]] <small>[[Georges Cuvier|Cuvier]], 1816</small>
**** Subfamily [[Freshwater whitefish|Coregoninae]] <small>[[Charles Lucien Bonaparte|Bonaparte]]</small><small>, 1845</small> 
**** Subfamily [[Thymallinae]] <small>[[Theodore Gill|Gill]]</small><small>, 1885</small>
**** Subfamily [[Salmonidae|Salmoninae]] <small>Cuvier</small><small>, 1816</small>

The following fossil taxa are also considered much more [[Basal (phylogenetics)|basal]] members of this order:<ref name=":0" />

* †''[[Barcarenichthys]]'' <small>Gayet, 1989</small> ([[Cenomanian]] of Portugal)
* †''[[Kermichthys]]'' <small>Taverne, 1992</small> (Cenomanian of Morocco)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fielitz |first=Christopher |date=2002 |title=A new Late Cretaceous (Turonian) basal euteleostean fish from Lac des Bois of the Northwest Territories of Canada |url=https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/e02-061 |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=39 |issue=11 |pages=1579–1590 |doi=10.1139/e02-061 |bibcode=2002CaJES..39.1579F |issn=0008-4077}}</ref>
* †''[[Pyrenichthys]]'' <small>Gayet & Lepicard, 1985</small> ([[Maastrichtian]] of France)<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=GAYET |first1=M |last2=LEPICARD |first2=B. |date=1985 |title=Salmoniforme nouveau du Maastrichtien supérieur des Petites Pyrénées (Haute-Garonne, France): Pyrenichthys jauzaci nov. gen. nov. sp |trans-title=New Salmoniforme from the Upper Maestrichtian of the "Petites Pyrénées" (Haute Garonne, France): Pyrenichthys jauzaci nov. gen. nov. sp |url=https://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=getRecordDetail&idt=8417686 |journal=Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Section C, Sciences de la terre, paléontologie, géologie, minéralogie |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=131–141 |issn=0181-0642}}</ref>
* ?†''[[Stompooria]]'' <small>Anderson, 1998</small> (potentially a [[Galaxiiformes|galaxiiform]])<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Anderson |first=M. Eric |title=A late Cretaceous (Maasteichtian) Galaxiid fish from South Africa |url=http://www.bioline.org.br/abstract?fs98001 |journal=Special Publication |language=English |issue=60 |pages=1–8 |issn=0075-2088}}</ref> (Maastrichtian of South Africa)

Indeterminate potential salmoniform remains are known from [[Santonian]]-aged freshwater deposits of Hungary.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Szabó |first1=Márton |last2=Ősi |first2=Attila |date=2017-09-01 |title=The continental fish fauna of the Late Cretaceous (Santonian) Iharkút locality (Bakony Mountains, Hungary) |url=https://akjournals.com/view/journals/24/60/2/article-p230.xml |journal=Central European Geology |language=en-US |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=230–287 |doi=10.1556/24.60.2017.009 |bibcode=2017CEJGl..60..230S |issn=1789-3348|hdl=10831/67493 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

In the past, other euteleost fish such as the [[Osmeriformes|smelts]] or [[Platytroctidae|tubeshoulders]] were also placed within this order,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=McDowall |first=R. M. |date=1976 |title=Fishes of the family Prototroctidae (Salmoniformes) |url=https://www.publish.csiro.au/mf/mf9760641 |journal=Marine and Freshwater Research |language=en |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=641–659 |doi=10.1071/mf9760641 |bibcode=1976MFRes..27..641M |issn=1448-6059}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Matsui |first1=Tetsuo |last2=Rosenblatt |first2=Richard H. |date=1987 |title=Review of the Deep-Sea Fish Family Platytroctidae (Pisces: Salmoniformes) |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/35v4k0ks |journal=Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography |language=en |issue=26}}</ref> but such a placement is now known to be inaccurate.'''<ref name=":1322" />''' Phylogenetic studies generally recover either the [[Argentiniformes]] or the [[Galaxiiformes]] as the closest relatives of the Salmoniformes.'''<ref name=":1322" />'''<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" />