Molidae Bonaparte 1835

Laan, Richard Van Der, Eschmeyer, William N. & Fricke, Ronald, 2014, Family-group names of Recent fishes, Zootaxa 3882 (2), pp. 1-230 : 135

Family Molidae Bonaparte 1835

Name in prevailing recent practice

Orthragoriscidae Bonaparte 1835:[7] [ref. 32242] (family) Orthragoriscus [genus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1; Bonaparte 1850b [ref. 32551] used Orthagoriscidae based on Orthagoriscus ; senior objective synonym of Molini Bonaparte 1835; name never used as valid after 1899]

Molini Bonaparte 1835:[7] [ref. 32242] (subfamily) Mola [genus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1; junior objective synonym of Orthragoriscidae Bonaparte 1835, but in prevailing recent practice; Molidae used as valid by: Jordan 1923 [ref. 2421], Schultz with Stern 1948 [ref. 31938], Bertin & Arambourg 1958, Bailey et al. 1960 [ref. 27285], Lagler, Bardach & Miller 1962, Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman & Myers 1966 [ref. 26856], Kamohara 1967, McAllister 1968 [ref. 26854], Lindberg 1971 [ref. 27211], Norman & Greenwood 1975, Nelson 1976 [ref. 32838], Shiino 1976, Lagler, Bardach, Miller & May Passino 1977, Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Whitehead et al. (1986b) [ref. 13677], McAllister 1990 [ref. 14674], Quéro et al. 1990 [ref. 15946], Robins et al. 1991a [ref. 14237], Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Springer & Raasch 1995:105 [ref. 25656], Eschmeyer 1998 [ref. 23416], Su & Li 2002 [ref. 28836], Menezes et al. 2003 [ref. 27192], Nelson et al. 2004 [ref. 27807], Hoese et al. 2006, Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486], Allen & Erdmann 2012 [ref. 31980], Fierstine, Huddleston & Takeuchi 2012]

Cephalinae Swainson 1838:192, 199, 200 [ref. 4302] (subfamily) Cephalus Shaw [also Swainson 1839:195, 329 [ref. 4303]]

Ellipsosomes Hollard 1857:326, 327 [ref. 2186] (family)? Orthragoriscus [latinized to Ellipsosomata by Kner 1867:404 [ref. 18426]; no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Molacanthinae Gill 1861a:57 [ref. 1766] (subfamily) Molacanthus

Ranzaniinae Jordan & Evermann 1898a:1752 [ref. 2444] (subfamily) Ranzania [stem changed to Ranzanby Le Danois 1955:1934 [ref. 32645]]

? Triuridae Whitley 1954a:62 [ref. 4720] (family) Triurus Lacepède [or in Alepocephalidae ?]