Osteichthyes - Perciformes - Haemulidae
Parent taxon: Perciformes according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2025
See also Agiadi et al. 2020, Betancur et al. 2013, Lin et al. 2017, Nelson et al. 2016 and Schwarzhans and Bratischko 2011
Sister taxa: Acanthonotus, Alepes, Ammodytoidei, Amphiperca, Anarhichas, Anarrhichthys, Aphia, Apogonoides, Apolectus, Aramichthys, Arripidae, Avitolabrax, Bairdiella, Banjosidae, Bathyclupeidae, Bembropoidei, Bilinia, Blabe, Branchiostegidae, Brotulidae, Burtinia, Callyodon, Chaeturichthys, Chandidae, Cockerellites, Congiopodoidei, Coryphopterus, Cottioidei, Cottoidei, Cottopsis, Ctenodentex, Ctenosciaena, Dapaloides, Diaphyodus, Eocottidae, Eoluvarus, Eoserranus, Epinnula, Grammatorycnus, Haliophis, Hypacanthus, Hyperprosopon, Icosteoidei, Isacia, Labroidea, Labroidei, Landanichthys, Latellopsis, Latidae, Lithognathus, Lonchistium, Lutjanidae, Lycodopsis, Lyconectes, Maccullochella, Matarchia, Menticirrhus, Mugiloidei, Nebris, Normanichthyoidei, Notothenioidei, Odonteobolca, Palaeoperca, Paraplatax, Parapygaeus, Pararhenanoperca, Pasaichthys, Pennahia, Pentacerotidae, Pentaprion, Percalates, Perciliidae, Percoidei, Percoideorum, Percophidae, Phanerodon, Phosphichthys, Plagioholocentrus, Platycephalidae, Platylates, Priacanthopsis, Propercarinidae, Propygidium, Psenes, Pseudoscarus, Quasicichla, Quasinectes, Rexea, Rhenanoperca, Robertanniidae, Saldenioichthys, Scomberoides, Scombrolabracoidei, Scombrosphyraena, Scorpaenoidei, Selar, Serranoidei, Sparidae, Sphyraenoidei, Sphyraenops, Stromateoidei, Synagrops, Tetrapterus, Thalasseloetridae, Thyrsitocephalus, Trachinoidei, Trichiuroidei, Trispinachidae, Tungtingichthys, Wangia, Xiphioidei, Zoarcoidei
Subtaxa: Allomorone Anisotremus Haemulidarum Haemulinae Orthopristis Plectorhynchinae Pomadasys
Type: Haemulon
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (2 collections), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), United States (2: California, Louisiana)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Greece (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), United States (2: Florida, North Carolina)
• Miocene of Algeria (5), Chile (1), Czechia (1), France (4), Italy (2), Panama (8), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Greece (1)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (2), United States (2: Louisiana, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Belgium (1), France (2), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (25: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia)
• Paleocene of Greenland (1), Ukraine (1)
• Devonian of Czechia (1)
Total: 79 collections including 116 occurrences