Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Actinopteri - (Order) Syngnathiformes

Original entries

Tonlesapia (Genus) Motomura & Mukai, 2006

Subsequent entries

Callionymus (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758

Current position

Callionymoidei (Suborder) Berg, 1940

Ref: R. van der Laan, 2018: 75; ECoF(4 Feb 2025).

Alternative positions

Callionymiformes (Order)	Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 412.
Perciformes (Order) Bleeker, 1859	Ref: N. Bailly et al., 2001: 372.

Historical positions

Callionymoidei (Suborder) Berg, 1940	Ref: R. van der Laan, 2018: 75.
Callionymoidei (Suborder) Berg, 1940	Ref: R. Betancur-R et al., 2017: 23.
Callionymiformes (Order)	Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 412-413.
Callionymoidei (Suborder) Berg, 1940	Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 2004-2016: 24 Jan 2006.
Callionymoidei (Suborder) Berg, 1940	Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer & J.D. Fong, 2011: 37.
Callionymoidei (Suborder) Berg, 1940	Ref: E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson, 2010: 163.
Callionymoidei (Suborder) Berg, 1940	Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 418-419.
Perciformes (Order) Bleeker, 1859	Ref: N. Bailly et al., 2001: 372.
Perciformes (Order) Bleeker, 1859	Ref: 1998
Callionymoidei (Suborder) Berg, 1940	Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2487.
Callionymoidei (Suborder) Berg, 1940	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 610.
Callionymoidei (Suborder) Berg, 1940	Ref: R.A. Fritzsche, 1982: 941.

Number of Subtaxa

2025	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	11g;154s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 4 Jul 2025	[11g]
2011	W.N. Eschmeyer & J.D. Fong: 37	19g;187s
2006	J.S. Nelson: 419	[10g]
1982	R.A. Fritzsche: 941	8g;40?s