Family Epigonidae Poey 1861

Name in prevailing recent practice, Article 35.5

Sphyraenopses Poey 1861:349 [ref. 3499] (group) Sphyraenops [stem Sphyraenops- confirmed by Whitley 1951a:65 [ref. 4711]]

Epigoninae Poey 1861:350 [ref. 3499] (group) Epigonus [family-group name used as valid by: Fraser 1972 [ref. 5195], Johnson 1984 [ref. 9681], Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Smith & Heemstra 1986 [ref. 5715], Abramov 1987 [ref. 13520], McAllister 1990 [ref. 14674], Quéro et al. 1990 [ref. 15946], Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Eschmeyer 1998 [ref. 23416], Gon 1999 [ref. 24835], Gon 2003 [ref. 27085], Hoese et al. 2006, Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486], Okamoto 2011 [ref. 31268], Parin, Prokofiev & Bussarawit 2012 [ref. 31975], Okamoto & Motomura 2013 [ref. 32772]] [