Gadiformes

Gadiformes: Pelvic fins, when present, inserted below or in front of pectorals (thoracic or jugular, rarely behind in Macrouridae) with up to 11 rays; no true spines in the fins; most with long dorsal and anal fins; scales usually cycloid, rarely ctenoid; premaxilla forms the entire margin of upper jaw, protractile in some; ectopterygoid toothless; orbitosphenoid and basisphenoid absent; branchiostegal rays 6-8; posterior vertebral reduction results in posterior dorsal and anal pterygiophores exceeding the number of caudal vertebrae; swim bladder without pneumatic duct (the swim bladder is absent in Melanonus and Squalogadus).
 * See Fishbase.

Families in this order:
 * Bregmacerotidae
 * Euclichthyidae
 * Gadidae
 * Lotidae
 * Macrouridae
 * Melanonidae
 * Merlucciidae
 * Moridae
 * Muraenolepididae
 * Phycidae