Actinopteri - Pleuronectiformes - Bothidae
Parent taxon: Pleuronectoidei according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Ebersole et al. 2019, Gaemers 1984, Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016 and Purdy et al. 2001
Sister taxa: Achiridae, Achiropsettidae, Citharidae, Cynoglossidae, Paralichthyidae, Pleuronectidae, Poecilopsettidae, Rhombosoleidae, Samaridae, Scophthalmidae, Soleidae, Soleoidae
Subtaxa: Arnoglossus Bothidarum Bothus Caulopsetta Grammatobothus Laeops Miobothus Monolene Oligobothus Peltorhamphus Taeniopsetta
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Haweran of New Zealand (1 collection)
• Quaternary of Greece (3), Italy (4), the Marshall Islands (1), New Zealand (2), United States (1: Georgia)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Greece (2), Italy (5), Jamaica (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (3), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (1), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (4), Greece (1), Italy (9), Kazakhstan (1), New Zealand (24), Panama (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (6)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Greece (1)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (2), New Zealand (3), Romania (1), United States (1: California)
• Eocene of France (1), Germany (1), Indonesia (1), New Zealand (1), United States (2: Louisiana, Texas)
Total: 95 collections including 128 occurrences