Centracanthidae Gill 1893

Laan, Richard Van Der, Eschmeyer, William N. & Fricke, Ronald, 2014, Family-group names of Recent fishes, Zootaxa 3882 (2), pp. 1-230 : 102-103

Family Centracanthidae Gill 1893

Name in prevailing recent practice

Des Menides Cuvier 1829:186 [ref. 995] (family) Maena [latinized to Maenidae by Bonaparte 1831:157, 172 [ref. 4978]; latinized to Maenides by van der Hoeven 1832:242 [ref. 5061]; considered valid with this authorship by Richardson 1842:106 [ref. 13097], by Bleeker 1859d:XX [ref. 371], by Gill 1861a:31 [ref. 1766] and by Gill 1893b:134 [ref. 26255] Article 11.7.2; Maenidae used as valid after 1899, e.g. Evermann & Seale 1907:71 [ref. 1285] and Jordan 1923a:200 [ref. 2421]; sometimes seen as Maenididae or Menidae , not based on Mene ]

Centracanthinae Gill 1893b:134 [ref. 26255] (subfamily) Centracanthus [genus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1; family-group name used as valid by: Schultz with Stern 1948 [ref. 31938], McAllister 1968 [ref. 26854], Lindberg 1971 [ref. 27211], Tortonese, Sertorio & Bauchot 1973 [ref. 7202], Bauchot 1974 [ref. 21548], Nelson 1976 [ref. 32838], Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Smith & Heemstra 1986 [ref. 5715], Whitehead et al. (1986a) [ref. 13676], Heemstra 1990a [ref. 18769], Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Springer & Raasch 1995:102 [ref. 25656], Eschmeyer 1998 [ref. 23416], Springer & Johnson 2004 [ref. 33199], Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486]; family name sometimes seen as Centracantidae ]

Merolepidae Jordan 1923a:200 [ref. 2421] (family) Merolepis [name in synonymy, treated as available before 1961?; not available, Article 11.6.1]

Spicaridae Fowler 1930b:646 [ref. 1405] (family) Spicara

Merolepidae Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman & Myers 1966:400 [ref. 26856] (family) Merolepis [published after 1960 as a junior synonym; not available, Article 11.6.3]