Osteichthyes - Gadiformes - Bregmacerotidae
Parent taxon: Gadoidei according to D. L. Frizzell and J. H. Dante 1965
See also Constantin 1999, Danil'chenko 1960, Jordan 1963, Lin et al. 2017, Nelson et al. 2016, Schwarzhans 1978 and Schwarzhans and Nielsen 2021
Sister taxa: Gadidae, Lotidae, Merlucciidae, Moridae, Phycidae
Subtaxa: Bregmacerina Bregmaceros
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (2 collections), Italy (2), United States (1: Louisiana)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Cyprus (1), Greece (10), Italy (6), Jamaica (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (4), Angola (1), Australia (1), Chile (1), Czechia (1), France (2), Gabon (1), Germany (1), Greece (9), India (1), Italy (10), Malta (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (11), Panama (2), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of France (1), Hungary (4), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (2: Louisiana, Mississippi)
• Eocene of France (5), Georgia (1), Germany (1), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), New Zealand (4), United States (7: California, Louisiana, Texas)
Total: 102 collections including 103 occurrences