Family Ophidiidae Rafinesque 1810 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Ophidiiformes - Ophidiidae

Parent taxon: Ophidiiformes according to J. A. Ebersole et al. 2019

See also Bannikov 2014, Betancur et al. 2013, Carnevale et al. 2014, Constantin 1999, Fierstine et al. 2012, Frizzell and Dante 1965, Jordan 1963, Lin et al. 2017, Lin et al. 2017, Nelson et al. 2016, Schwarzhans 2003 and Schwarzhans and Bratischko 2011

Sister taxa: Benthocometes, Brotula, Bythitoidei, Carapidae, Dannevigia, Ophididae, Ophidioidei, Parabrotulidae, Rhodichthyidae

Subtaxa: Aequalobythites Ampheristus Bassozetus Chilara Fierasfer Genypterinae Hoplobrotula Hoplobrotuloides Lepophidium Neobythites Neobythitinae Nolfophidion Ophidiidarum Ophidiinae Ophidion Ophidium voltianum Otophidium Pseudaequalobythites Sirembinae Sirembola Zonobythites

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore-parasite

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Greece (4 collections), Italy (2), United States (4: California, Louisiana)

• Mangapanian of New Zealand (1)

• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Greece (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (1), United States (3: California, Florida, North Carolina)

• Miocene of Argentina (2), Australia (2), Belgium (1), Chile (1), France (3), Germany (2), Italy (3), New Zealand (14), Panama (7), Spain (1)

• Neogene of Indonesia (1)

• Waitakian of New Zealand (2)

• Oligocene of Australia (4), France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), New Zealand (4), United States (1: Louisiana)

• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (5), Barbados (1), Belgium (2), France (8), Germany (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), New Zealand (16), the United Kingdom (12), United States (11: Louisiana, Texas)

• Tertiary of United States (1: Mississippi)

• Paleocene of Denmark (4), Greenland (1), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Alabama)

• Cretaceous of United States (1: Maryland)

Total: 137 collections including 234 occurrences

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