Concise Encyclopedia Biology, Thomas Scott, pp. 904, Walter de Gruyter, 1996, ISBN 978-3-11-010661-9, ... Perciformes: the largest and most diverse order of fishes, in fact the largest order of vertebrates ...
The Diversity of Fishes: Biology, Evolution, and Ecology, Professor Gene Helfman, Bruce B. Collette, Douglas E. Facey, Dr Brian W. Bowen, pp. 300, John Wiley & Sons, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4443-1190-7, ... The largest order in the Percomorpha, and for that matter of vertebrates, is the Perciformes, containing 160 families and over 10,000 species, more than a third of all fishes ...
