Family Chironemidae Gill 1862 (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Centrarchiformes - Chironemidae
Parent taxon: Cirrhitoidei according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Jordan 1963 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Aplodactylidae, Cheilodactylidae, Cirrhitidae, Latridae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Chironemidae in the database