Family Gasteropelecidae (ray-finned fish)
Actinopteri - Characiformes - Gasteropelecidae
Parent taxon: Characoidei according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Jordan 1963 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Acestrorhynchidae, Alestoidea, Bryconidae, Chalceidae, Characidae, Characoidea, Chilodontidae, Crenuchidae, Crenuchoidea, Ctenoluciidae, Cynodontidae, Erythrinidae, Erythrinoidea, Hemiodontidae, Hepsetidae, Lebiasinidae, Parodontidae, Prochilodontidae, Serrasalmidae, Triportheidae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology:
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Gasteropelecidae in the database