Family Scytalinidae (perch-like fish)
Osteichthyes - Perciformes - Scytalinidae
Parent taxon: Zoarcales according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Jordan 1963 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Anarhichadidae, Bathymasteridae, Cebidichthyidae, Cryptacanthodidae, Eulophiidae, Lumpenidae, Neozoarcidae, Opisthocentridae, Pholidae, Ptilichthyidae, Stichaeidae, Zaproridae, Zoarcidae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Scytalinidae in the database