Class Actinopterygii Woodward, 1891 - ray-finned fishes
   Subclass Neopterygii Regan, 1923
     Infraclass Teleostei Müller, 1845
       Supercohort Teleocephala de Pinna, 1996
         Clupeocephala
           Cohort Euteleosteomorpha (Greenwood et al., 1966)
             Subcohort Neoteleostei Nelson, 1969
               Infracohort Eurypterygia (Rosen, 1973)
                 Section Ctenosquamata Rosen, 1973
                   Subsection Acanthomorphata (Rosen, 1973)
                     Euacanthomorpha (Johnson & Patterson, 1993)
                       Holacanthopterygii Johnson & Patterson, 1993
                         Acanthopterygii Rosen & Patterson, 1969
                           Euacanthopterygii
                             Division Percomorphacea Wiley & Johnson, 2010
                               Order "Trachiniformes" Rafinesque, 1810
                                 01 Family Chiasmodontidae - swallowers
                                 02 Family Champsodontidae - gapers
                                 03 Family Pinguipedidae - sandperches
                                 04 Family Cheimarrhichthyidae nom. imperf. see Family Cheimarrichthyidae
                                 05 Family Trichonotidae - sand divers
                                 06 Family Creediidae - sand burrowers
                                 07 Family Percophididae
                                 08 Family Leptoscopidae
                                 09 Family Trachinidae Rafinesque, 1815 - weeverfishes
                                 10 Family Uranoscopidae Jordan & Evermann, 1898 - stargazers
                                 11 Family Ammodytidae Boulenger, 1910 - sand lances