Chanidae

Chanidae is a family of fishes which has a number of fossil genera and one monotypic extant genus which contains the milkfish.

Taxonomy

The family Chanidae is subdivided into two subfamilies, Rubiesichthyinae and Chaninae.

†Cabindachanos Taverne et al. 2019 - Paleocene
?†Coelogaster Eastman, 1905 - Early Eocene
Subfamily †Rubiesichthyinae Poyata-Ariza 1996
* Genus †Gordichthys Poyata-Ariza 1994 - Early Cretaceous
* Genus †Nanaichthys Amaral & Brito 2012
* Genus †Rubiesichthys Wenz 1984 - Early Cretaceous
Subfamily Chaninae
* Genus †Aethalionopsis Gaudant 1966 - Early Cretaceous
* Genus †Caeus Costa 1860 - Early Cretaceous
* Genus Chanos Lacépède 1803 - Eocene to present
* Genus †Dastilbe D. S. Jordan 1910 - Early Cretaceous
* Genus †Francischanos Ribeiro et al. 2022 - Early Cretaceous
* Genus †Parachanos Arambourg & Schneegans 1935 - Early Cretaceous
* Genus †Tharrhias D. S. Jordan & Branner 1908 - Early Cretaceous
* Genus †Vango Murray et al. 2023 - Late Cretaceous