Osteichthyes - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Parent taxon: Myctophidae according to W. W. Schwarzhans and S. N. Nielsen 2021
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, Schwarzhans and Ohe 2019 and Steurbaut 1984
Sister taxa: Aethoprora, Benthosema, Bolinichthys, Dasyscopelus, Diaphinae, Diaphus, Diogenichthys, Eokrefftia, Eomyctophinae, Eomyctophum, Gymnoscopelinae, Lampanyctinae, Lepidophanes, Lobianchia, Myctophidarum, Myctophum, Notolychninae, Tachynectes
Subtaxa: Antimyctophum Centrobranchus Ctenoscopelus Electrona Gonichthys Hygophum Krefftichthys Loweina Metelectrona Myctophini Protomyctophum Symbolophorus Tarletonbeania
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (10 collections), Italy (7), Japan (5), New Zealand (2), United States (9: California)
• Mangapanian of New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Greece (2), Italy (8), Jamaica (1), Japan (3), New Zealand (3), United States (5: California), Venezuela (3)
• Neogene of Indonesia (2)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Chile (6), the Dominican Republic (1), France (5), Germany (1), Greece (4), Italy (20), Japan (2), Mexico (1), New Zealand (28), Panama (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Venezuela (1)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (2)
Total: 136 collections including 229 occurrences