†family Cleiothrolepididae Wade 1935 (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Perleidiformes - Cleiothrolepididae
Parent taxon: Perleidiformes according to J. Cartanyà 1999
See also Bürgin 1992 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Boreichthys, Cephaloxenidae, Chrotichthys, Cleithrolepidae, Colobodontidae, Crenolepis, Daninia, Dollopterus, Fuyuanperleididae, Gabanellidae, Habroichthyidae, Manlietta, Perleididae, Platysiagidae, Polzbergiidae, Saurichthyes, Tripelta, Zeuchthiscus
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Cleiothrolepididae in the database