Base of the evolutionary tree for Berycoidei

• Berycoidei (74 species)
  • Bigscale fishes or ridgeheads (Melamphaidae) → (64 species)
    • unnamed group 857464 → (32 species)
      • Melamphaes → (27 species)
        • unnamed group 857492 → (4 species)
        • Melamphaes nikolayi
        • Melamphaes leprus
        • Melamphaes manifestus
        • Ridgehead (Melamphaes longivelis)
        • Melamphaes janae
        • Ridgehead (Melamphaes typhlops)
        • Ridgehead (Melamphaes simus)
        • Melamphaes indicus
        • Melamphaes macrocephalus
        • Melamphaes eulepis
        • Melamphaes ebelingi
        • Melamphaes spinifer
        • Bigscale (Melamphaes danae)
        • Melamphaes hubbsi
        • Melamphaes pumilus
        • Slender bigscale (Melamphaes acanthomus)
        • Melamphaes falsidicus
        • Melamphaes occlusus
        • Melamphaes parini
        • Melamphaes laeviceps
        • Ridgehead (Melamphaes microps)
        • Melamphaes pachystomus
        • Melamphaes xestoachidus
      • Scopelogadus → (5 species)
        • Bean's bigscale (Scopelogadus beanii)
        • Twospine bigscale (Scopelogadus bispinosus)
        • Scopelogadus unispinis
        • Scopelogadus capistranensis
        • Ragged bigscale (Scopelogadus mizolepis)
    • unnamed group 857434 → (31 species)
      • Poromitra → (22 species)
        • unnamed group 857448 → (2 species)
        • Poromitra gibbsi
        • Poromitra crassa
        • Poromitra indooceanica
        • Poromitra frontosa
        • Poromitra nigriceps
        • Poromitra coronata
        • Ridgehead (Poromitra megalops)
        • Poromitra decipiens
        • Poromitra curilensis
        • Poromitra rugosa
        • Poromitra macrophthalma
        • Poromitra atlantica
        • Yawning (Poromitra oscitans)
        • Poromitra kukuevi
        • Poromitra glochidiata
        • Poromitra cristiceps
        • Poromitra jucunda
        • Poromitra agafonovae
        • Poromitra unicornis
        • Poromitra nigrofulva
      • Scopeloberyx → (9 species)
        • Bigscale (Scopeloberyx opisthopterus)
        • Scopeloberyx rossicus
        • Scopeloberyx bannikovi
        • Ridgehead (Scopeloberyx robustus)
        • Scopeloberyx malayanus
        • Southern bigscale (Scopeloberyx microlepis)
        • Ridgehead (Scopeloberyx rubriventer)
        • Scopeloberyx maxillaris
        • Scopeloberyx pequenoi
    • Nordenskjold's midnight-fish (Sio nordenskjoldii)
  • berycids (Berycidae) → (10 species)
    • Centroberyx → (7 species)
      • unnamed group 857428 → (5 species)
        • unnamed group 857430 → (3 species)
        • unnamed group 857429 → (2 species)
      • alfonsino (Centroberyx rubricaudus)
      • Short alfonsino (Centroberyx spinosus)
    • alfonsinos (Beryx) → (3 species)
      • unnamed group 857425 → (2 species)
        • Splendid alfonsino (Beryx splendens)
        • alfonsino (Beryx mollis)
      • broad alfonsino (Beryx decadactylus)