| Myripristinae Temporal range:
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| Myripristis jacobus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Beryciformes |
| Family: | Holocentridae |
| Subfamily: | Myripristinae J. Richardson, 1846 |
| Genera[1] | |
Myripristinae is a subfamily of the ray-finned fish family Holocentridae. They are typically known as soldierfish.[2]
Fossil members of the group include Africentrum from Malta, Holocentrites from Florida, and Eoholocentrum from Italy.[3]
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Holocentridae". FishBase. October 2012 version.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Myripristinae Nelson, 1955". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
- ^ Andrews, James V.; Schein, Jason P.; Friedman, Matt (2023). "An earliest Paleocene squirrelfish (Teleostei: Beryciformes: Holocentroidea) and its bearing on the timescale of holocentroid evolution". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 21 (1). Bibcode:2023JSPal..2168571A. doi:10.1080/14772019.2023.2168571. ISSN 1477-2019.