Subfamily Caracanthinae Gill 1885

Name in prevailing recent practice

Crossodermatidae Guichenot 1869:194 [ref. 1952] (family) Crossoderma [name never used as valid after 1899]

Caracanthidae Gill 1885a:254 [ref. 1653] (family) Caracanthus [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], Nelson 1976 [ref. 32838], Shiino 1976, Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Smith & Heemstra 1986 [ref. 5715], Paxton et al. 1989 [ref. 12442], Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Eschmeyer 1998 [ref. 23416], Imamura 2004 [ref. 29602], Hoese et al. 2006, Jin 2006, Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486], Allen & Erdmann 2012 [ref. 31980]]