Family Melanotaeniidae (silverside)
Actinopteri - Atheriniformes - Melanotaeniidae
Parent taxon: Atheriniformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Jordan 1963 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Atherinidae, Atherinopsidae, Bedotiidae, Chirostoma, Colpichthys, Dentatherinidae, Isonidae, Menidia, Mesogasteridae, Notocheiridae, Palaeoatherina, Phallostethidae, Pranesus, Pseudomugilidae, Rhamphognathidae, Stenatherina, Telmatherinidae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Melanotaeniidae in the database