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Section sizes

Section size for List of marine bony fishes of South Africa (57 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	2,251	2,251
Parvphylum Osteichthyes – Bony fishes	346	346
Gigaclass Actinopterygii – Ray-finned fishes	84	251,053
Class Teleostei	27	250,969
Order: Acanthuriformes	12,653	12,653
Order Acropomatiformes	3,886	3,886
Order Albuliformes – Bonefishes	202	202
Order Anguilliformes – Eels	12,146	12,146
Order Alepocephaliformes	637	637
Order Argentiniformes	848	848
Order Ateleopodiformes	409	409
Order: Atheriniformes	846	846
Order Aulopiformes	7,954	7,954
Order Batrachoidiformes	811	811
Order Beloniformes	3,756	3,756
Order Beryciformes	2,844	2,844
Order: Blenniiformes	14,861	14,861
Order: Callionymiformes	1,023	1,023
Order Carangaria incertae sedis	1,984	1,984
Order Carangiformes	10,532	10,532
Order Centrarchiformes	5,231	5,231
Order Cichliformes	248	248
Order Clupeiformes	4,568	4,568
Order Dactylopteriformes	787	787
Order Elopiformes	627	627
Order Eupercaria incertae sedis	34,472	34,472
Order Gadiformes	6,132	6,132
Order: Gobiesociformes	1,117	1,117
Order: Gobiiformes	13,732	13,732
Order Gonorynchiformes	576	576
Order: Holocentriformes	2,501	2,501
Order Kurtiformes	6,434	6,434
Order Lampriformes	1,939	1,939
Order Lophiiformes – Anglerfishes	5,520	5,520
Order Mugiliformes	3,792	3,792
Order Mulliformes	2,099	2,099
Order Myctophiformes	15,436	15,436
Order Notacanthiformes	988	988
Order Ophidiiformes	5,170	5,170
Order Osmeriformes	222	222
Order Ovalentaria incertae sedis	9,001	9,001
Order Perciformes	1,090	1,090
Order Pleuronectiformes – Flatfishes	8,347	8,347
Order Polymixiiformes	239	239
Order Saccopharyngiformes	333	333
Order: Scombriformes	8,815	8,815
Order Siluriformes – Catfishes	819	819
Order Stomiiformes	9,510	9,510
Order: Stylephoriformes	264	264
Order Syngnathiformes	6,346	6,346
Order Tetraodontiformes	15,500	15,500
Order: Trachichthyiformes	1,879	1,879
Order Zeiformes	1,816	1,816
Gigaclass Sarcopterygii – Lobefin fishes	57	660
Class Coelacanthi	29	603
Order Coelacanthiformes – Coelacanths	574	574
References	1,594	1,594
Total	255,904	255,904

Split?[edit]

The list is already 87,215 bytes and I am not yet halfway through the references. Possible split :

List of marine bony fishes of South Africa
- List of marine Acanthopterygii of South Africa

Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 12:11, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List has been split as described above to List of marine spiny-finned fishes of South Africa Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 19:19, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Taxonomy[edit]

Taxonomic structure is based on that in Wikispecies as of December 2009. Please do not rearrange without discussion. Alphabetising by binomial, within family is welcome where this is not already done.

Ordinary errors - go ahead and correct.

Species not yet in the list: Either add in correct family or append to bottom of file in section "Unallocated species"

Cheers, Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 19:19, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nesting of sections[edit]

PLEASE, before changing the nesting of sections (changing the heading format by adding or removing "="s), be sure that your proposed change does not produce taxonomic anomalies. Any changes should retain accepted hierarchical structure. Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 07:33, 13 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch; I noticed this during my recent edit to this page but was too busy to stop what I was doing and sort it out. Bob the WikipediaN ^{(talk • contribs)} 01:22, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]