Family Caesionidae (ray-finned fish)
Actinopteri - Acanthomorpha - Caesionidae
Parent taxon: Percomorpharia according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Acropomatidae, Caproidae, Centrarchiformes, Centrogenyidae, Chaetodontidae, Cirrhitiformes, Emmelichthyidae, Enoplosidae, Ephippiformes, Epigonidae, Gerreidae, Howellidae, Kuhliidae, Kyphosidae, Lateolabracidae, Leiognathidae, Lobotidae, Malacanthidae, Monodactylidae, Moronidae, Oplegnathidae, Pempheriformes, Percichthyidae, Polyprionidae, Pomacanthidae, Priacanthidae, Scatophagidae, Sciaenidae, Siganidae, Sillaginidae, Sinipercidae, Terapontidae, Uranoscopiformes
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Caesionidae in the database