See text The Zaniolepididae is a family of marine ray-finned fishes classified within the suborder Cottoidei of the order Perciformes.

Zaniolepididae was first proposed as a family in 1883 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert.

These workers retain the Cottoidei as a suborder within the Perciformes while reclassifying Zaniolepidoidea as the infraorder Zaniolepidoales.

[5] Zaniolepidiae are endemic to the eastern North Pacific Ocean from Alaska south to Baja California.

[2] Zaniolepididae has one species, Zaniolepis frenata, which has been recorded as a source of food for the Native American inhabitants of San Nicolas Island off the coast of Southern California during the Middle Holocene.