Suborder Bythitoidei (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Ophidiiformes

Parent taxon: Ophidiiformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013

Sister taxa: Benthocometes, Brotula, Carapidae, Dannevigia, Ophididae, Ophidiidae, Ophidioidei, Parabrotulidae, Rhodichthyidae

Subtaxa: Bythitidae

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore-parasite

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Greece (5 collections), Italy (3), New Zealand (2), United States (1: Louisiana)

• Mangapanian of New Zealand (1)

• Pliocene of Greece (3), New Zealand (1)

• Miocene of France (1), Gabon (1), Greece (3), Italy (9), New Zealand (8)

• Waitakian of New Zealand (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of the Czech Republic (1)

• Oligocene of Australia (1), Belgium (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (3), Germany (1), Romania (1)

• Eocene of Australia (3), France (7), Germany (1), Indonesia (1), New Zealand (3), the United Kingdom (8)

• Paleocene of Denmark (3), Greenland (1), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Alabama)

Total: 77 collections including 87 occurrences

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