Actinopteri - Ophidiiformes - Bythitidae
Alternative spelling: Bythidae
Parent taxon: Bythitoidei according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Agiadi et al. 2020, Fierstine et al. 2012, Girone et al. 2006, Lin et al. 2017, Nelson et al. 2016, Schwarzhans 2003 and Schwarzhans and Bratischko 2011
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Aphyoninae Bellotia Brosmophycinae Brosmophyciops Brosmophycis Bythitidarum Bythitinae Dinematichthyinae Dinematichthys Diplacanthopoma Grammonus Propteridium Timorichthys
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore-parasite
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (5 collections), Italy (3), New Zealand (2), United States (1: Louisiana)
• Mangapanian of New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene of Greece (3), New Zealand (1)
• Miocene of France (1), Gabon (1), Greece (3), Italy (9), New Zealand (8)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of the Czech Republic (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Belgium (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (3), Germany (1), Romania (1)
• Eocene of Australia (3), France (7), Germany (1), Indonesia (1), New Zealand (3), the United Kingdom (8)
• Paleocene of Denmark (3), Greenland (1), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Alabama)
Total: 77 collections including 87 occurrences