Actinopteri - Istiophoriformes - Sphyraenidae
Parent taxon: Sphyraenidae according to G. A. Ballen 2019
See also Agassiz 1835, Bannikov 2014, Carnevale et al. 2014, Carnevale and Godfrey 2018, Casier 1946, Casier 1958, Casier 1966, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Cicimurri et al. 2022, de Beaufort 1926, Ebersole et al. 2019, Ebersole et al. 2024, Fierstine et al. 2012, Hay 1902, Maisch et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Schultz 1978, Schwarzhans 2007, Schwarzhans 2019, Sepkoski 2002, Steurbaut 1984, Stringer 1998, Szabo et al. 2017, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Weems 1999, Weiler 1938 and White 1926
Sister taxon: Parasphyraena
Subtaxa: Sphyraena amici Sphyraena argentea Sphyraena barracuda Sphyraena bognorensis Sphyraena bolcensis Sphyraena crassidens Sphyraena croatica Sphyraena cunhai Sphyraena egleri Sphyraena fajumensis Sphyraena hansfuchsi Sphyraena intermedia Sphyraena kugleri Sphyraena longimana Sphyraena lugardi Sphyraena major Sphyraena malembeensis Sphyraena muelleri Sphyraena novaehollandiae Sphyraena pannonica Sphyraena senni Sphyraena sternbergensis Sphyraena striata Sphyraena substriata Sphyraena suessi Sphyraena tyrolensis Sphyraena viannai Sphyraena viennensis Sphyraena weberi Sphyraena winkleri
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Greece (1), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), United States (7: California, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (1), United States (3: Florida, North Carolina)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Brazil (2), Colombia (3), Costa Rica (2), the Czech Republic (2), France (2), Hungary (1), India (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Mexico (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (1), United States (7: Florida, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (2), Hungary (1), United States (5: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Barbados (8), Belgium (1), Germany (1), India (1), Italy (1), Nigeria (2), Pakistan (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (18: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia), Western Sahara (2)
• Cretaceous of India (1)
Total: 97 collections including 107 occurrences
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