[organisms] see Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
   Pisces
     Class Osteichthyes Huxley, 1880 - bony fishes and tetrapods see Clade Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 [Moore & Near 2020]
       Order Osmeriformes Regan, 1913 - freshwater smelts
         Family Platytroctidae Koefoed, 1927 - tubeshoulders
           Genus Mentodus Parr, 1951
             Mentodus rostratus (Günther, 1878)