see text Caproidae, or boarfishes, are a small family of marine fishes comprising two genera and 19 species.

Caproidae was first proposed as a family in 1835 by the French naturalist and ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte.

[1] Caproidae was formerly placed in the order Zeiformes with the dories, but were later moved to Perciformes based on percoid characteristics of the caudal skeleton and other morphological evidence.

[5] The smallest species is Antigonia kenyae with a maximum published standard length of 4.4 cm (1.7 in).

[9] Caproidae species are found in all the temperate and tropical regions of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.