Poeciliini, Bonaparte, 1831

Tribe Poeciliini + Tribe Cnesterodontini

[Clade 115]

Diagnosis. Poeciliins and Cnesterodontins can be diagnosed by the following not uniquely derived and/or reversed features: (1) parietals absent [2-2]; (2) anterior tip of basipterygium in adult males approximately triangular and round [37-0]; (3) ligastyle with one axis [46-1]; (4) pleural ribs associated with haemal arches in males [60- 1]; (5) pleural ribs associated with haemal arches in females [61-1]; (6) absence of an anterior convex expansion of second gonactinosts [70-0]; (7) absence of an anterior process on base of fifth middle anal-fin radial in adult males [78-0]; (8) males with 10 anal-fin rays [85-0]; and (9) absence of an elongate and dorsal protuberance along R4p (just behind retrorse spines series) of anal fin in adult males [118-0].