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