Editing Tilefish (section)

== Taxonomic issues ==
The family is further divided into two subfamilies: '''Latilinae''', sometimes called the Branchiosteginae, and '''Malacanthinae'''.<ref name=Nelson-2006>{{cite book |last=Nelson |first=J.S. |author-link=Joseph S. Nelson |year=2006 |title=Fishes of the World |title-link=Fishes of the World |edition=4th |place=Hoboken, NJ |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0-471-25031-9 |pages=357–358}}</ref><ref name=Eschmeyer-Fricke-2016>{{cite web |editor1=Eschmeyer, W.N. |editor1-link=William N. Eschmeyer |editor2=Fricke, R. |date=4 January 2016 |title=Species by family / subfamily in the Catalog of Fishes |publisher=[[California Academy of Sciences]] |url=http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/SpeciesByFamily.asp |access-date=18 January 2016}}</ref> Some authors regard these subfamilies as two [[evolution]]arily distinct families.<ref name=FishBase-2015-10/><ref name=Nelson-2006/>

The placement of this family within the [[Eupercaria]] is still uncertain. The 5th edition of ''[[Fishes of the World]]'' classifies them within the [[Perciformes]] but in a grouping of seven families that may have a relationship to [[Acanthuroidei]], [[Monodactylidae]], and [[Priacanthidae]],<ref name=Nelson-Grande-Wilson-2016>{{cite book |author1=Nelson, J.S. |author1-link=Joseph S. Nelson |author2=Grande, T.C. |author3=Wilson, M.V.H. |year=2016 |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |page=456 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |access-date=2021-03-07 |archive-date=2019-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408194051/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> while other authorities place it outside the Perciformes, at an order level but with its true relationships being ''[[incertae sedis]]''.<ref name=Betancur-Rodriguez-etal-2017>{{cite journal |last1=Betancur-R. |first1=Ricardo |last2=Wiley |first2=Edward O. |last3=Arratia |first3=Gloria |last4=Acero |first4=Arturo |last5=Bailly |first5=Nicolas |last6=Miya |first6=Masaki |last7=Lecointre |first7=Guillaume |last8=Ortí |first8=Guillermo |display-authors=6 |date=6 July 2017 |title=Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=17 |issue=1 |page=162 |issn=1471-2148 |doi=10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3 |pmid=28683774 |pmc=5501477 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2017BMCEE..17..162B }}</ref>