Family Cheilodactylidae Bonaparte 1850 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Centrarchiformes - Cheilodactylidae

Parent taxon: Cirrhitoidei according to R. van der Laan 2019

See also Betancur et al. 2013, Jordan 1963 and Nelson et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Aplodactylidae, Chironemidae, Cirrhitidae, Latridae

Subtaxa: Nemadactylus

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of New Zealand (1 collection)

• Waitakian of New Zealand (2)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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