Family Plecoglossidae (ray-finned fish)
Actinopteri - Osmeriformes - Plecoglossidae
Parent taxon: Osmeriformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Jordan 1963 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Allosmerus, Carpathichthys, Enoplophthalmus, Maulisia, Nybelinoides, Opisthoproctus, Osmeridae, Prototroctidae, Retropinnidae, Salangidae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Plecoglossidae in the database