Order Dactylopteriformes (ray-finned fish)
Actinopteri - Dactylopteriformes
Parent taxon: Percomorpha according to A. F. Bannikov 2014
See also Jordan 1963 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Gobiida, Kelemejtubus, Nardoichthys, Ophidiida, Ovalentaria, Pelagia
Subtaxa: Cephalacanthidae Prevolitans Pterygocephalidae
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
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