Cod played key role in the settlement of New England. Total failure of Grand Banks fishery. Definitely some of the wierder fishes. For example, parasitic males in linophrynids. In cases where eggs laid, may be extremely tough and resistant to dessication The Percomorpha Most advanced euteleostean clade 12,000 species pelvic girdle and pectoral girdle joined by ligament.
Ctenoid scales are the rule.
Features usually armored, small mouth. About 300 spp. In ghost pipefish, females brood eggs, not male Trumpetfishes worldwide tropical cryptic and predatory. V. good suction feeders Superorder Paracanthopterygii, Order Percopsiformes, Fam. Lophius gastrophysus , blackfin goosefish Superorder Paracanthopterygii, Order Lophiiformes, Fam.