Family Caesionidae Bonaparte 1831

Caesionini Bonaparte 1831:157, 172 [ref. 4978] (subfamily) Caesio [family name sometimes seen as Caesiodidae]

Dipterygonotini Bleeker 1871–76:2 [ref. 4861] (phalanx ≈ tribe) Dipterygonotus [also Bleeker 1876a:274 [ref. 447] and Bleeker 1875–77:41 [ref. 4862]]

Gymnocaesioninae Johnson 1980:10, 45 [ref. 13553] (subfamily) Gymnocaesio