Family Bathysauridae (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Aulopiformes - Bathysauridae
Parent taxon: Alepisauroidei according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Alepisauroidea, Aspidopleuridae, Aspidopleurus, Chlorophthalmidae, Evermannellidae, Giganturidae, Ipnopidae, Notosudidae, Polymerichthyidae, Sudidae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Bathysauridae in the database