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, Suzuki 2018 and van der Laan 2019
Sister taxa: Acrognathus, Aulopoidei, Bathysauroididae, Enchodontoidei, Halecoidei, Ichthyotringoidei, Lestidiidae, Nardorexidae, Notolepis, Paralepididae, Paraulopidae, Paraulopoidei, Pseudotrichonotidae, Scopelarchidae, Synodidae
Subtaxa: Alepisauroidea Aspidopleuridae Aspidopleurus Bathysauridae Chlorophthalmidae Evermannellidae Giganturidae Ipnopidae Notosudidae Polymerichthyidae Sudidae
Ecology: nektonic carnivore