Actinopteri - Acanthomorphata - Priacanthidae
Parent taxon: Percomorpharia according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Bannikov 2014, Carnevale et al. 2014, Danil'chenko 1960, Danil'chenko 1980, Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016, Přikryl et al. 2016 and Weiler 1938
Sister taxa: Acanthuriformes, Acropomatidae, Caesionidae, Caproidae, Centrarchiformes, Centrogenyidae, Chaetodontidae, Cirrhitiformes, Emmelichthyidae, Enoplosidae, Ephippiformes, Epigonidae, Gerreidae, Haemulidae, Howellidae, Kuhliidae, Kyphosidae, Labriformes, Lateolabracidae, Leiognathidae, Lobotidae, Lophiiformes, Lutjanidae, Malacanthidae, Monodactylidae, Moronidae, Oplegnathidae, Pempheriformes, Percichthyidae, Perciformes, Polyprionidae, Pomacanthidae, Scatophagidae, Sciaenidae, Siganidae, Sillaginidae, Sinipercidae, Spariformes, Terapontidae, Tetraodontiformes, Uranoscopiformes
Subtaxa: Priacanthus Pristigenys
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Azerbaijan (1 collection), the Czech Republic (2), France (2), Taiwan (1)
• Oligocene of Georgia (1), Germany (1), Poland (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Louisiana)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), France (1), Germany (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: California, Louisiana)
Total: 21 collections including 25 occurrences