Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes - Tetraodontidae
Synonyms: Gymnodontes Cuvier 1817, Gymnodontidae Cuvier 1817
Parent taxon: Tetraodontoidei according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Bannikov 2014, Carnevale et al. 2014, Carnevale and Santini 2006, Fierstine et al. 2012, Greenwood et al. 1966, Hay 1902, Jaekel 1911, Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Santini and Tyler 2003 and Tyler and Sorbini 1996
Sister taxa: Avitoplectidae, Balkariidae, Ctenoplectus, Diodontidae, Eoplectoidea, Moloidea, Tetraodontoidea, Triodontoidea
Subtaxa: Archaeotetraodon Canthigasteridae Diodontoidea Eotetraodon Leithaodon Sphoeroides Tetraodon
Type: Tetraodon
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Kenya (6 collections), the Marshall Islands (2), United States (2: Georgia, South Carolina)
• Pliocene to Holocene of Uganda (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Uganda (2)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Kenya (3), United States (2: Florida, North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Uganda (4)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (1), Chad (1), Costa Rica (1), France (2), Italy (5), Portugal (1), Slovakia (2), United States (1: Virginia)
• Eocene of Italy (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: California)
Total: 44 collections including 48 occurrences