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Esociformes

Medical Definition:

An order of fishes native to North America and Northern Eurasia, consisting of two familes: ESOCIDAE (pikes) and UMBRIDAE (mudminnows).

Esociformes Categories.

	Esocidae - A family of freshwater fish of the order ESOCIFORMES, comprising the pikes, inhabiting the waters of the Northern Hemisphere. There is one genus, Esox, with five species: northern pike, grass pickerel, chain pickerel, muskellunge, and Amur pike.
	Umbridae - A family of ESOCIFORMES comprising the mudminnows. There are three genera: Dallia, Novumbra, and Umbra, with much disagreement about their taxonomic interrelations. The Umbridae are freshwater fish inhabiting parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

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