Otomorpha

Diplomystus dentatus, copyright Yinan Chen.

Belongs within: Osteoglossocephalai.
Contains: Alepocephaliformes, Ostariophysi, Clupeiformes.

The Otomorpha are a clade of ray-finned fishes primarily supported by molecular data, members of which commonly have silvery areas associated with the swim bladder.

Otomorpha [Ostarioclupeomorpha, Otocephala] B-RB13
    |--+--Alepocephaliformes B-RB13
    |  `--Ostariophysi B-RB13
    `--Clupeomorpha B96
         |--Clupeiformes B-RB13
         `--Ellimmichthyidae [Ellimmichthyiformes, Paraclupeidae] B96
              |--Paraclupea chetungensis Du 1950 P93
              |--Ellimmichthys G88
              |    |--E. goodi (Eastman 1912) [=Diplomystus goodi] P93
              |    `--E. longicostatus (Cope 1886) P93 [=Diplomystus longicostatus G88]
              `--Diplomystus Cope 1877 G88, O96
                   |--D. dentatus Cope 1877 P93
                   |--D. kokuraensis Uyeno 1979 P93
                   |--D. notacanthus [=Clupea notacanthus] O96
                   |--D. novaehollandiae [=Meletta novaehollandiae, Hyperlophus novaehollandiae] O96
                   |--D. primotinus Uyeno 1979 P93
                   |--D. shengliensis Zhang et al. 1985 P93
                   `--D. spratellides O96

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[B-RB13] Betancur-R., R., R. E. Broughton, E. O. Wiley, K. Carpenter, A. López, C. Li, N. I. Holcroft, D. Arcila, M. Sanciangco, J. C. Cureton, II, F. Zhang, T. Buser, M. A. Campbell, J. A. Ballesteros, A. Roa-Varon, S. Willis, W. C. Borden, T. Rowley, P. C. Reneau, D. J. Hough, G. Lu, T. Grande, G. Arratia & G. Ortí. 2013. The tree of life and a new classification of bony fishes. PLoS Currents Tree of Life April 18 2013. doi: 10.1371/currents.tol.53ba26640df0ccaee75bb165c8c26288.

[B96] Bond, C. E. 1996. Biology of Fishes 2^nd ed. Saunders College Publishing: Fort Worth.

[G88] Gray, J. 1988. Evolution of the freshwater ecosystem: the fossil record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 62: 1–214.

[O96] Ogilby, J. D. 1896. On a Galaxias from Mount Kosciusko. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 21 (1): 62–73.

[P93] Patterson, C. 1993. Osteichthyes: Teleostei. In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 621–656. Chapman & Hall: London.