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Coryphaenidae (disused)

Actinopteri - Carangiformes - Coryphaenidae

Taxonomy
Coryphaenidae is a family. It is extant.

It was assigned to Coryphaeniformes by Jordan (1963); and to Carangiformes by Betancur et al. (2013) and Nelson et al. (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1963Coryphaenidae Jordan p. 681
2013Coryphaenidae Betancur et al.
2016Coryphaenidae Nelson et al. p. 384

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
superclassActinopterygii()
classActinopteri()
subclassNeopterygii(Regan 1923)
Teleosteomorpha
Teleostei(Müller 1846)
Osteoglossocephalai
RankNameAuthor
ClupeocephalaPatterson and Rosen 1977
Euteleosteomorpha
NeoteleosteiRosen 1973
Eurypterygia(Rosen 1973)
Ctenosquamata
Acanthomorphata(Rosen 1973)
Euacanthomorphacea
Percomorphaceae
Carangimorpharia
Carangimorphariae
orderCarangiformes
familyCoryphaenidae
familyCoryphaenidae

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available