Actinopteri - Acanthomorpha - Chaetodontidae
Parent taxon: Percomorpharia according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Carnevale 2006, Danil'chenko 1980, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Acropomatidae, Caesionidae, Caproidae, Centrarchiformes, Centrogenyidae, 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: Acanthocaetodon Centropyge Chaetodon Chaetodon penniger Chelmo Chelmon Holocentroides Pomacanthus
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
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