Parent taxon: Kurtiformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
Sister taxa: Acanthoclinidae, Aphareidae, Denticidae, Diploprionidae, Elassomidae, Etheostomidae, Glaucosomidae, Henicichthyidae, Histiopteridae, Hoplopagridae, Inermiidae, Kurtoidei, Labracoglossidae, Neoletherinidae, Niphonidae, Oligoridae, Otholithidae, Pomadasidae, Pseudoplesiopidae, Rhegmatidae, Theraponidae, Verilidae, Xenichthyidae
Subtaxa: Apogonidae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (1 collection), Japan (2), Taiwan (1), United States (2: California, Louisiana)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Greece (2), Jamaica (1), Taiwan (3)
• Miocene of Brunei Darussalam (1), France (2), Gabon (1), India (1), Italy (1), New Zealand (2), Panama (2), Taiwan (1), United States (1: California), Venezuela (1)
• Neogene of Indonesia (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Greece (1)
• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (1), Hungary (1)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), France (5), Germany (1), India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (4), New Zealand (7), Pakistan (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (3: Texas)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of India (1), United States (2: North Dakota)
Total: 67 collections including 85 occurrences