Actinopteri - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Parent taxon: Myctophidae according to W. Schwarzhans and F. Ohe 2019
See also Denton 2013, Fierstine et al. 2012, Fraser-Brunner 1949, Kalabis 1948, Martin et al. 2018, Prokofiev 2006, Schwarzhans 2013, Schwarzhans and Aguilera 2013 and Steurbaut 1984
Sister taxa: Aethoprora, Diaphinae, Diaphus, Eokrefftia, Eomyctophinae, Eomyctophum, Gymnoscopelinae, Hygophum, Lampanyctinae, Lampanyctus, Myctophidarum, Myctophum, Notolychninae, Tachynectes
Subtaxa: Antimyctophum Benthosema Centrobranchus Ctenoscopelus Dasyscopelus Diogenichthys Electrona Gonichthys Krefftichthys Loweina Metelectrona Myctophini Protomyctophum Symbolophorus Tarletonbeania
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (7 collections), Italy (7), Japan (3), New Zealand (2), United States (7: California)
• Mangapanian of New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene of Greece (1), Italy (5), Jamaica (1), Japan (7), New Zealand (3), Taiwan (3), United States (5: California), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of France (5), Gabon (1), Greece (6), Italy (11), Japan (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (28), Panama (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (2)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (1)
Total: 111 collections including 175 occurrences