Family Dactylopteridae Gill 1861

Dactylés Duméril 1805:130 [ref. 1151] (family)? Dactylopterus [no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Dactipli Rafinesque 1810b:28 [ref. 3595] (ordine)? Dactylopterus [no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Dimeredia Rafinesque 1815:87 [ref. 3584] (subfamily)? Dactylopterus [no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

? Cephalotes Jarocki 1822:133, 140 [ref. 4984] (family)? Dactylopterus [no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Dactylopterinae Gill 1861a:43 [ref. 1766] (subfamily) Dactylopterus

Cephalacanthinae Kaup 1873:79 [ref. 2585] (subfamily) Cephalacanthus [on p. 84 as Cephalocanthinae]