Subfamily Brosmophycinae Gill 1862 (ray-finned fish)
Actinopteri - Ophidiiformes - Bythitidae
Parent taxon: Bythitidae according to W. Schwarzhans and A. Bratischko 2011
See also Gaemers 1984 and Steurbaut 1984
Sister taxa: Aphyoninae, Bellotia, Brosmophyciops, Brosmophycis, Bythitidarum, Bythitinae, Dinematichthyinae, Dinematichthys, Diplacanthopoma, Grammonus, Propteridium, Timorichthys
Subtaxa: Bidenichthys Kalabisia
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore-parasite
Distribution:
• Miocene of New Zealand (3 collections)
• Oligocene to Miocene of the Czech Republic (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (3), Greenland (1)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence