Suborder Alepisauroidei (ray-finned fish)
Parent taxon: Aulopiformes according to J. A. Ebersole et al. 2022
See also Betancur et al. 2013, Holloway et al. 2017, Nazarkin 2016, Nolf and Dockery 1990, Prokofiev 2006 and Suzuki 2018
Sister taxa: Acrognathus, Aulopoidei, Bathysauroididae, Enchodontoidei, Halecoidei, Ichthyotringoidei, Lestidiidae, Notolepis, Paralepididae, Paraulopidae, Paraulopoidei, Pseudotrichonotidae, Scopelarchidae, Synodidae
Subtaxa: Alepisauroidea Aspidopleuridae Aspidopleurus Bathysauridae Chlorophthalmidae Evermannellidae Giganturidae Ipnopidae Notosudidae Sudidae
Ecology: nektonic carnivore