Family Aplodactylidae Guenther 1859 (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Centrarchiformes - Aplodactylidae
Parent taxon: Cirrhitoidei according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Jordan 1963 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Cheilodactylidae, Chironemidae, Cirrhitidae, Latridae
Subtaxa: Aplodactylus
Type: Aplodactylus
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Horcón-Maitencillo (unspecified layer) (Pliocene of Chile)