Suborder Citharinoidei Buckup 1998 (ray-finned fish)
Parent taxon: Characiformes according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Betancur et al. 2013, Murray 2003 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Characoidei, Miletes, Rhodsia, Santanichthys
Subtaxa: Citharinidae Distichodontidae Eocitharinus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Kenya (2 collections)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
• Pliocene of Kenya (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Uganda (8)
• Miocene of Kenya (1), Libya (1), Uganda (2)
• Oligocene of Kenya (1)
• Eocene of Tanzania (1)
Total: 18 collections each including a single occurrence