Osteichthyes - Ophidiiformes - Bythitidae
Alternative spelling: Bythidae
Parent taxon: Bythitoidei according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Agiadi et al. 2020, Fierstine et al. 2012, Girone et al. 2006, Lin et al. 2017, Nelson et al. 2016, Schwarzhans 2003, Schwarzhans and Bratischko 2011 and Schwarzhans and Nielsen 2021
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Aphyoninae Bellotia Brosmophycinae Brosmophyciops Brosmophycis Bythitidarum Bythitinae Dinematichthyinae Dinematichthys Diplacanthopoma Grammonus Propteridium Pseudonus Timorichthys
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore-parasite
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (5 collections), Italy (3), New Zealand (2), United States (3: California, Louisiana)
• Mangapanian of New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene of Greece (3), New Zealand (1), Taiwan (1)
• Miocene of Chile (2), France (1), Gabon (1), Greece (3), Italy (12), New Zealand (8)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Czechia (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Belgium (1), Czechia (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: 85 collections including 96 occurrences