Goodeidae

Goodeidae is a family of teleostfish endemic to Mexico and some areas of the United States. Many species are known as splitfins. This family contains about 50 species within 18 genera. The family is named after ichthyologist George Brown Goode (1851–1896).

The earliest fossil goodeid is , a goodeine from the middle Miocene of Mexico. The earliest fossil empetrichthyine is from the Miocene or Pliocene of California.