Family Sparisomidae (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Pharyngognathi - Sparisomidae
Parent taxon: Pharyngognathi according to D. S. Jordan 1963
Sister taxa: Coridae, Neolabridae, Sciaenoidea, Siphonognathidae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Sparisomidae in the database