Actinopteri - Acanthomorphata - Percichthyidae
Parent taxon: Percomorpharia according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Arratia 2015, Bannikov 2014, Carnevale et al. 2014, Jordan 1963, Martinelli and Forasiepi 2004 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Acanthuriformes, Acropomatidae, Caesionidae, Caproidae, Centrarchiformes, Centrogenyidae, Chaetodontidae, Cirrhitiformes, Emmelichthyidae, Enoplosidae, Ephippiformes, Epigonidae, Gerreidae, Haemulidae, Howellidae, Kuhliidae, Kyphosidae, Labriformes, Lateolabracidae, Leiognathidae, Lobotidae, Lophiiformes, Lutjanidae, Malacanthidae, Monodactylidae, Moronidae, Oplegnathidae, Pempheriformes, Perciformes, Polyprionidae, Pomacanthidae, Priacanthidae, Scatophagidae, Sciaenidae, Siganidae, Sillaginidae, Sinipercidae, Spariformes, Terapontidae, Tetraodontiformes, Uranoscopiformes
Subtaxa: Cyclopoma Macquaria Malakichthys Percichthys
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
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