Actinopteri - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Parent taxon: Myctophidae according to W. Schwarzhans and F. Ohe 2019
See also Denton 2013, Fierstine et al. 2012, Kalabis 1948, Martin et al. 2018, Prokofiev 2006, Schwarzhans 2013, Schwarzhans and Aguilera 2013 and Steurbaut 1984
Sister taxa: Aethoprora, Diaphinae, Diaphus, Eokrefftia, Eomyctophinae, Eomyctophum, Gymnoscopelinae, Hygophum, Lampanyctinae, Lampanyctus, Myctophidarum, Myctophum, Notolychninae, Scopelus, Tachynectes
Subtaxa: Antimyctophum Benthosema Centrobranchus Ctenoscopelus Dasyscopelus Diogenichthys Electrona Gonichthys Krefftichthys Loweina Metelectrona Myctophini Protomyctophum Symbolophorus Tarletonbeania
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (7 collections), Italy (7), Japan (3), New Zealand (2), United States (7: California)
• Mangapanian of New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene of Greece (1), Italy (5), Jamaica (1), Japan (7), New Zealand (3), United States (4: California), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of France (5), Gabon (1), Greece (6), Italy (11), Japan (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (28), Panama (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (2)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (1)
Total: 107 collections including 169 occurrences