Belongs within: Percomorpharia.
The Uranoscopiformes are a clade of fishes united by molecular data, many of which were historically treated as ‘trachinoids’.
<==Uranoscopiformes [Paratrachiniformes, Paratrachinoidei] |--+--Cheimarrichthys [Cheimarrichthyidae]ND13 | | `--C. fosteri Haast 1874LD09 | `--Pinguipedidae [Mugiloididae]ND13 | |--Chilias xanthozona (Bleeker 1849) [=Percis xanthozona, Parapercis xanthozona]M58 | |--Pinguipes chilensis Valenciennes 1833LD09 | |--NeopercisR13 | `--Parapercis [Parapercidae]ND13 | |--P. allportiSC07 | |--P. clathrata Ogilby 1910LD09 | |--P. coliasH01 | |--P. cylindrica (Bloch 1792) [=Sciaena cylindrica]M58 | |--P. fatuus Schwarzhans 1980P93 | |--P. finlayi Frost 1924P93 | |--P. gilliesiH01 | |--P. haackei (Steindachner 1884)H90 | |--P. hexophtalma (Cuvier 1829)MM09 (see below for synonymy) | |--P. millepunctata (Günther 1860)MM09 | |--P. multiplicata Randall 1984MM09 | |--P. nebulosa (Quoy & Gaimard 1824)H90 [=Percis nebulosaG75] | |--P. ramsayiSC07 | `--P. tetracanthus (Lacépède 1801) [=Labrus tetracanthus; incl. Percis cancellata Günther 1860]M58 `--+--UranoscopidaeND13 | |--Kathetostoma averruncusND13 | |--Astroscopus y-graecumND13 | |--Uranoscopidarum orbis Nolf 1991P93 | |--IchthyscopusG75 | | |--I. fasciatusG75 | | `--I. lebeckG75 | `--Uranoscopus Linnaeus 1758L58 | |--*U. scaber Linnaeus 1758L58 | |--U. albesca Regan 1915LD09 | `--U. ignavus Schwarzhans 1980P93 `--Ammodytidae [Ammodytiformes]ND13 | i. s.: EmbolichthysR13 | Bleekeria callolepisR13 |--Gymnammodytes semisquamatusLM13 `--+--Hyperoplus lanceolatusLM13 `--Ammodytes Linnaeus 1758LM13, L58 |--*A. tobianus Linnaeus 1758L58 |--A. americanus DeKay 1842N02 |--A. cicerellusPP64 |--A. dubius Reinhardt 1837N02 |--A. hexapterusN02 |--A. lanceolatusR13 |--A. marinusN02 |--A. personatusLN10 `--A. vasseuri Nolf & Lapierre 1977P93
Parapercis hexophtalma (Cuvier 1829)MM09 [=Percis hexophthalmusM58, Chilias hexophthalmusM58, Pinguipes didikuar Montrouzier in Thiollière 1857 (n. n.)M58]
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
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[P93] Patterson, C. 1993. Osteichthyes: Teleostei. In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 621–656. Chapman & Hall: London.
[PP64] Peres, J. M., & J. Picard. 1964. Nouveau manuel de bionomie benthique de la mer Mediterranee. Recueil des Travaux de la Station Marine d’Endoume, Bulletin 31 (27): 5–137.
[R13] Regan, C. T. 1913. The classification of the percoid fishes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 8, 12: 111–145.
[SC07] Smith, W. L., & M. T. Craig. 2007. Casting the percomorph net widely: the importance of broad taxonomic sampling in the search for the placement of serranid and percid fishes. Copeia 2007 (1): 35–55.