Parent taxon: Stomiiformes according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Fierstine et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Diplophidae, Gonostomata, Gonostomatidae, Ichthyococcus, Idrissia, Ohuus, Paravinciguerria, Phosichthyidae, Phosichthyoidei, Praewoodsia, Stomiidae, Stomioidei, Telepholis
Subtaxa: Sternoptychidae
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (5 collections), Italy (5), Japan (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Greece (3), Italy (7), Jamaica (1), Taiwan (5)
• Miocene of Algeria (3), Chile (4), France (5), Greece (6), Italy (19), Japan (1), New Zealand (13), Panama (1), South Atlantic (1), Spain (1), United States (4: California)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (4)
• Oligocene of Czechia (1), France (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Eocene of France (2), Georgia (1), Iran (1), New Zealand (2)
Total: 103 collections including 149 occurrences