Suborder Tetraodontoidei (ray-finned fish)
Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes
Parent taxon: Tetraodontiformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Bannikov 2014, Bannikov et al. 2017, Close et al. 2016, Dica 2002, Fierstine et al. 2012, Kumar and Loyal 1987 and Santini and Tyler 2003
Sister taxa: Alutera, Aracanidae, Atlanticopristis, Balistoidei, Bolcabalistidae, Cretazeus, Eodiodon, Eoplectidae, Indotrigonodon, Kyrtogymnodon, Moloidei, Oligodiodon, Ostracioidea, Ostracioidei, Pisdurodon, Plectocretacicoidei, Plectocretacicus, Protobalistidae, Triacanthodoidei, Triacanthoidei, Trigonodontoidae, Triodontidae, Zignoichthyidae
Subtaxa: Avitoplectidae Balkariidae Ctenoplectus Diodontidae Eoplectoidea Moloidea Tetraodontidae Tetraodontoidea Triodontoidea
Ecology: nektonic carnivore