Actinopteri - Scombriformes - Scombridae
Alternative spellings: Scomberoidei, Scomberoides
Parent taxon: Scombroidei according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2025
See also Bannikov 2014, Betancur et al. 2013, Carnevale and Godfrey 2018, Casier 1966, Danil'chenko 1960, Danil'chenko 1980, David 1943, Ebersole et al. 2019, Fierstine et al. 2012, Jordan 1963, Miya et al. 2013, Monsch and Bannikov 2011, Monsch et al. 2005, Nelson et al. 2016, Owen 1854, Přikryl et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Schwarzhans and Bratischko 2011, Uyeno and Fujui 1975, Weems 1999 and Weiler 1938
Sister taxa: Duplexdens, Euzaphlegidae, Micrornatus, Scombramphodon, Scombroidea, Sphyraenodus, Trichiuriformes, Trichiuroidea, Xiphioidea
Subtaxa: Acanthocybiinae Acanthonotos Ardiodus Cariniceps Caucombrus Cybium Eoscomber Eoscombrus Eucynodus Gasterochismatinae Gasteronemus Godsilia Lepidocybium Ocystias Pelamys Pneumatophorus Pseudauxides Sardinae Sardini Scomber Scomberodon Scombridarum Scombrinae Scombrinus Scombrosarda Thunnoscomberoides Toxopoma Tunita Turio Wetherellus Xestias
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Bulgaria (1 collection), Greece (1), Italy (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Norway (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Georgia)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Cyprus (1), Greece (1), Italy (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: California, North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Algeria (5), Austria (2), Azerbaijan (2), Belgium (1), Chile (2), Czechia (1), France (3), Hungary (1), India (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (4), Japan (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (3), Peru (3), Poland (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (5), United States (21: California, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (3)
• Oligocene of Azerbaijan (2), Belgium (1), Czechia (2), France (2), Georgia (1), Germany (2), Hungary (1), Kazakhstan (1), Poland (1), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1), United States (4: Mississippi, South Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of Belgium (6), France (1), Georgia (2), Germany (1), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (2), New Zealand (1), Senegal (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (13), United States (18: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland , Mississippi, Texas, Virginia), Western Sahara (2)
• Paleocene of Ukraine (1), United States (1: Maryland)
Total: 165 collections including 272 occurrences