Actinopteri - Stomiatiformes - Sternoptychidae
Alternative spelling: Sternopthychidae
Parent taxon: Gonostomatoidei according to H. L. Fierstine et al. 2012
See also Afsari et al. 2014, Carnevale 2007, Carnevale 2008, Constantin 1999, Danil'chenko 1960, David 1943, Girone et al. 2006, Jordan 1963 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Argyripnus Argyropelecus Danaphos Discosternon Eosternoptyx Maurolicus Polyipnoides Polyipnus Sternoptychidarum Sternoptyx Valenciennellus
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (5 collections), Italy (5)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Greece (3), Italy (7), Jamaica (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (3), Brazil (1), France (5), Greece (6), Italy (19), Japan (1), New Zealand (13), Spain (1), United States (4: California)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (4)
• Oligocene of Czechia (1), France (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Eocene of France (2), Georgia (1), Iran (1), New Zealand (2)
Total: 90 collections including 133 occurrences