After Carroll, 1988, Nelson, 1994, and Pietsch & Orr, 2007, with Recent species from Froese & Pauly, 2001 [“The Fishbase”]
<==o Ceratioidea [Ceratioidei sensu Pietsch & Orr, 2007] (deep-sea anglerfishes; syvänmerenkrotit) |?- †Acentrophryne L. Mioc. |--+-- Centrophryne spinulosa Regan & Trewavas, 1932 Centrophrynidae (piikkikrotti; Horned lantern fish) | `--o Ceratiidae (syvänmerenkrotit; seadevils) | |-- Cryptopsaras couesii Gill, 1883 (Triplewart seadevil) | `--o Ceratias | |-- C. holboelli Krøyer, 1845 (syvänmerenkrotti; Krøyer's deep sea angler fish) | |-- C. tentaculatus (Norman, 1930) | `-- C. uranoscopus Murray, 1877 `--+--o Himantolophus [Himantolophidae] (footballfishes; pallokrotit) | |-- H. albinares Maul, 1961 | |-- H. appelii (Clarke, 1878) | |-- H. compressus (Osório, 1912) | |-- H. groenlandicus Reinhardt, 1837 (Atlantic footballfish) | `-- H. mauli Bertelsen & Krefft, 1988 `--+--o Diceratiidae (sauvakrotit) | |-- Paroneirodes wedli (Pietschmann, 1926) [Phrynichthys] | `--o Diceratias [Paroneirodes] | |-- D. bispinosus (Günther, 1887) (Two-rod anglerfish) | |-- D. glomerosus (Alcock, 1890) | `-- D. pileatus Uwate, 1979 `--+--o Melanocetus [Melanocetidae] (lyhtykrotit) | |-- M. johnsoni Günther, 1864 (Humpback anglerfish) | |-- M. murrayi Günther, 1887 (Murray's abyssal anglerfish) | |-- M. niger Regan, 1925 | `-- M. rossii Balushkin & Fedorov, 1981 `--+--+-- Thaumatichthyidae | `-- Oneirodidae `--+--o Caulophrynidae sensu Nelson, 1994 (rihmaeväkrotit) | |-- Robia sp. [not recognized by the FishBase] | `--o Caulophryne | |-- C. sp.1 | |-- C. sp.2 | |-- C. jordani Goode & Bean, 1896 | `-- C. polynema Regan, 1930 `--+-- Linophrynidae (pensaskrotit) `--+-- Neoceratias spinifer Pappenheim, 1914 [Neoceratiidae] (piikkileukakrotti) `-- Gigantactinidae (siimakrotit)
Reference(s):
- Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698 - Carroll, R. L., 1988: Appendix. 594-648
in Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698 - Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds), 2001: FishBase.
–iNet: www.fishbase.org - Lahti, S., Malmström, K. K., Koli, L., Leikola, A., Syrjämäki, J. & Lahti, J., 1980: Zoo, Suuri Eläinkirja 5: Kalat, sammakkoeläimet, matelijat.
–Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö, Porvoo-Helsinki-Juva, 1980.
Original work [in French]: Beauté Du Monde Animal: IX Reptiles/Amphibiens & X Poissons.
–Rizzoli Editore, Milano, 1968 - Nelson, J. S., 1994: Fishes of the world.
–John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 1994, xx-600 - Pietsch, T. W. & Orr, J. W., 2007: Phylogenetic relationships of deep-sea anglerfishes of the suborder Ceratioidei (Teleostei: Lophiiformes) based on morphology.
–Copeia: Vol. 2007, #1, pp. 1-34