Osteichthyes - Stomiiformes - Phosichthyidae
Alternative spelling: Photichthyidae
Parent taxon: Stomiatiformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Constantin 1999, Girone et al. 2006, Lin et al. 2017, Nelson et al. 2016 and Schwarzhans and Nielsen 2021
Sister taxa: Diplophidae, Gonostomata, Gonostomatidae, Gonostomatoidei, Ichthyococcus, Idrissia, Ohuus, Paravinciguerria, Phosichthyoidei, Praewoodsia, Stomiidae, Stomioidei, Telepholis
Subtaxa: Photichthyidarum Polymetme Vinciguerria Woodsia
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (4 collections), Italy (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Greece (1), Italy (4)
• Miocene of Chile (2), Czechia (1), France (4), Gabon (1), Greece (1), Italy (1), Japan (2), Ukraine (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Greece (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Oligocene of Czechia (2), France (2), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (3)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Czechia (1)
• Eocene of France (2), Georgia (1)
Total: 42 collections including 58 occurrences