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<p><a href="Aalmutter" title="Aalmutter">Aalmutter</a> (<i>Zoarces viviparus</i>), aufgenommen in der Ostsee bei <a href="Bornholm" title="Bornholm">Bornholm</a>
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<td><a href="Stachelflosser" title="Stachelflosser">Stachelflosser</a> (Acanthopterygii)
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<p>Die <b>Aalmutterverwandten</b> (Zoarcales) oder <b>Gebärfisch­ähnlichen</b> bilden eine <a href="Ordnung_(Biologie)" title="Ordnung (Biologie)">Teilordnung</a> der Unterordnung <a href="Cottoidei" title="Cottoidei">Cottoidei</a> innerhalb der Ordnung der <a href="Barschartige" title="Barschartige">Barschartigen</a> (Perciformes).<sup id="cite_ref-Betancur-Retal_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Betancur-Retal-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In älteren Systematiken wurden sie unter dem Namen <i>Aalmutterartige</i> bzw. <i>Zoarcoidei</i> als eigene Unterordnung der Barschartigen geführt. Die meisten Arten kommen im <a href="Pazifischer_Ozean" title="Pazifischer Ozean">Nordpazifik</a> vor, andere im Nordatlantik oder im <a href="S%C3%BCdlicher_Ozean" title="Südlicher Ozean">antarktischen Ozean</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Nelson_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nelson-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An den deutschen Küsten in Nord- und Ostsee leben die <a href="Aalmutter" title="Aalmutter">Aalmutter</a>, der <a href="Spitzschwanz-Schlangenstachelr%C3%BCcken" title="Spitzschwanz-Schlangenstachelrücken">Spitzschwanz-Schlangenstachelrücken</a>, der <a href="Gefleckter_Schlangenstachelr%C3%BCcken" title="Gefleckter Schlangenstachelrücken">Gefleckte Schlangenstachelrücken</a>, <a href="Vahls_Wolfsfisch" title="Vahls Wolfsfisch">Vahls Wolfsfisch</a>, der <a href="Atlantischer_Butterfisch" title="Atlantischer Butterfisch">Atlantische Butterfisch</a> und der <a href="Gestreifter_Seewolf" title="Gestreifter Seewolf">Gestreifte Seewolf</a>.
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<p>Es sind meist langgestreckte Fische, die in kalten Meeren auf dem Bodengrund leben. Es gibt nur wenige Merkmale, die alle Aalmutterverwandten miteinander teilen.<sup id="cite_ref-Nelson_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nelson-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Die japanischen <a href="Ichthyologe" class="mw-redirect" title="Ichthyologe">Ichthyologen</a> H. Imamura und M. Yabe geben folgende Merkmale als <a href="Synapomorphie" title="Synapomorphie">Synapomorphien</a> für die Zoarcales an:<sup id="cite_ref-Imamura_&amp;_Yabe_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Imamura_&amp;_Yabe-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>Weitere zwölf <a href="Apomorphie#Unterbegriffe" title="Apomorphie">Synapomorphien</a> teilen sie mit den nah verwandten <a href="Groppenverwandte" title="Groppenverwandte">Groppenverwandten</a> (Cottales).<sup id="cite_ref-Imamura_&amp;_Yabe_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Imamura_&amp;_Yabe-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<th><small>Phylogenetische Systematik der Aalmutterverwandten nach Brownstein et al. 2025:<sup id="cite_ref-Brownstein_etal_2025_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brownstein_etal_2025-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></small>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Systematik">Systematik</h2></div>
<p>Zu den Aalmutterverwandten gehören 13 Familien, 109 Gattungen und über 400 Arten.<sup id="cite_ref-Nelson_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nelson-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li><a href="Aalmuttern" title="Aalmuttern">Aalmuttern</a> (Zoarcidae) Swainson, 1839
<ul><li>Unterfamilie <a href="Gymnelinae" title="Gymnelinae">Gymnelinae</a></li>
<li>Unterfamilie <a href="Lycodinae" title="Lycodinae">Lycodinae</a></li>
<li>Unterfamilie <a href="Lycozoarcinae" class="mw-redirect" title="Lycozoarcinae">Lycozoarcinae</a></li>
<li>Unterfamilie <a href="Zoarcinae" class="mw-redirect" title="Zoarcinae">Zoarcinae</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Seew%C3%B6lfe" title="Seewölfe">Seewölfe</a> (Anarhichadidae) Bonaparte, 1846</li>
<li><a href="Neozoarcidae" title="Neozoarcidae">Neozoarcidae</a></li>
<li><a href="Eulophiidae" title="Eulophiidae">Eulophiidae</a></li>
<li><a href="Stachelr%C3%BCcken" title="Stachelrücken">Stachelrücken</a> (Stichaeidae) Gill, 1864
<ul><li>Unterfamilie <a href="Stichaeinae" title="Stichaeinae">Stichaeinae</a></li>
<li>Unterfamilie <a href="Chirolophinae" title="Chirolophinae">Chirolophinae</a></li>
<li>Unterfamilie Alectriinae</li>
<li>Unterfamilie <a href="Xiphisterinae" title="Xiphisterinae">Xiphisterinae</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Schlangenstachelr%C3%BCcken" title="Schlangenstachelrücken">Schlangenstachelrücken</a> (Lumpenidae)</li>
<li><a href="Opisthocentridae" title="Opisthocentridae">Opisthocentridae</a></li>
<li><a href="Butterfische" title="Butterfische">Butterfische</a> (Pholidae) Gill, 1893</li>
<li><a href="Stachelfische" class="mw-redirect" title="Stachelfische">Stachelfische</a> (Ptilichthyidae) Jordan &amp; Gilbert, 1883</li>
<li><a href="Zaproridae" class="mw-redirect" title="Zaproridae">Zaproridae</a> Jordan &amp; Evermann, 1898</li>
<li><a href="Schiefm%C3%A4uler" title="Schiefmäuler">Schiefmäuler</a> (Cryptacanthodidae) Gill, 1861</li>
<li><a href="Cebidichthyidae" class="mw-redirect" title="Cebidichthyidae">Cebidichthyidae</a></li>
<li><a href="Ronquils" title="Ronquils">Ronquils</a> (Bathymasteridae) Jordan &amp; Gilbert, 1883</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lebensraum">Lebensraum</h2></div>
<p>Zahlreiche Arten der Aalmutterverwandten leben in extremen Lebensräumen, darunter das <a href="Arktischer_Ozean" title="Arktischer Ozean">nördliche</a> und <a href="S%C3%BCdlicher_Ozean" title="Südlicher Ozean">südliche Polarmeer</a>, die Tiefsee und dort auch die unmittelbare Nähe von <a href="Raucher_(Hydrothermie)" title="Raucher (Hydrothermie)">Schwarzen und Weißen Rauchern</a>. Zur Anpassung an das Leben in sehr kalten Umgebungen besitzen die Aalmutterverwandten ein spezielles <a href="Frostschutzprotein" class="mw-redirect" title="Frostschutzprotein">Frostschutzprotein</a>. Nach der Entwicklung dieses Proteins vor über 8 Millionen Jahren konnten über 20 verschiedenen Evolutionslinien der Aalmutterverwandten kalte Umgebungen besiedeln.<sup id="cite_ref-Brownstein_etal_2025_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brownstein_etal_2025-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Einzelnachweise">Einzelnachweise</h2></div>
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<li id="cite_note-Betancur-Retal-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-Betancur-Retal_1-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">
Ricardo Betancur-R, Edward O. Wiley, Gloria Arratia, Arturo Acero, Nicolas Bailly, Masaki Miya, Guillaume Lecointre and Guillermo Ortí: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3">Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes</a>.</i> BMC Evolutionary Biology, BMC series – Juli 2017, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3">doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-Nelson-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Nelson_2-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Nelson_2-1">b</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Nelson_2-2">c</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">
Joseph S. Nelson, Terry C. Grande, Mark V. H. Wilson: <i>Fishes of the World.</i> Wiley, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2016, ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Imamura_&amp;_Yabe-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Imamura_&amp;_Yabe_3-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Imamura_&amp;_Yabe_3-1">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">
H. Imamura &amp; M. Yabe: <i>Demise of the Scorpaeniformes (Actinopterygii: Percomorpha): An Alternative Phylogenetic Hypothesis</i>. Bulletin of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Band&nbsp;53, Nr.&nbsp;3, S.&nbsp;107–128 (2002), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/21975/1/53(3)_P107-128.pdf">PDF</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-Brownstein_etal_2025-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Brownstein_etal_2025_4-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Brownstein_etal_2025_4-1">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">
Chase D. Brownstein, Richard C. Harrington, Olga Radchenko und Thomas J. Near 2025. <i>The many origins of extremophile fishes.</i> Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.0217" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.1098/rspb.2025.0217">doi: 10.1098/rspb.2025.0217</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Eschmeyer, W. N. &amp; Fong, J. D.: Catalog of Fishes <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/SpeciesByFamily.asp">Species by Family/Subfamily</a>, abgerufen am 13. Juli 2018.</span>
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