Osteichthyes - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Parent taxon: Myctophidae according to W. W. Schwarzhans and S. N. Nielsen 2021
See also Denton 2013, Fierstine et al. 2012, Martin et al. 2018, Přikryl et al. 2017, Prokofiev 2006, Schwarzhans 1980, Schwarzhans 2013, Schwarzhans and Aguilera 2013, Schwarzhans and Ohe 2019 and Steurbaut 1984
Sister taxa: Aethoprora, Diaphinae, Diaphus, Eokrefftia, Eomyctophinae, Eomyctophum, Gymnoscopelinae, Myctophidarum, Myctophinae, Myctophum, Notolychninae, Tachynectes
Subtaxa: Bolinichthys Ceratoscopelus Diaphini Gymnoscopelini Gymnoscopelus Lampadena Lampanictini Lampanyctini Lampanyctus Lepidophanes Oligophus Parvilux Stenobrachius Taaningichthys Triphoturus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (9 collections), Italy (6), Japan (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), United States (8: California, Oregon)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Greece (3), Italy (7), Jamaica (1), Japan (6), New Zealand (1), United States (4: California, North Carolina), Venezuela (2)
• Miocene of Algeria (4), Angola (3), Chile (7), Czechia (1), France (1), Gabon (2), Germany (1), Greece (10), Italy (24), Japan (3), New Zealand (12), Panama (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (8: California)
• Oligocene of Czechia (1), Romania (1), Ukraine (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Czechia (1)
• Eocene of South Atlantic (1)
Total: 136 collections including 253 occurrences