Subfamily Batrachoidinae Jordan 1896 (1835)

Name in prevailing recent practice, Article 40.2

? Cephalotes Goldfuss 1820:IX, 87 [ref. 1829] (family)? Batrachus Bloch & Schneider [no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Batrachini Bonaparte 1835:[14] [ref. 32242] (subfamily) Batrachus Bloch & Schneider [genus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1; changed to Batrachoideae by Richardson 1836:102 [ref. 3731] (family)]

Batrachoididae Jordan 1896:231 [ref. 2395] (family) Batrachoides [replacement name for Batrachini; Batrachoididae 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], McAllister 1968 [ref. 26854], Lindberg 1971 [ref. 27211], Nelson 1976 [ref. 32838], Shiino 1976, Lagler, Bardach, Miller & May Passino 1977, Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Smith & Heemstra 1986 [ref. 5715], Whitehead et al. (1986b) [ref. 13677], Paxton et al. 1989 [ref. 12442], McAllister 1990 [ref. 14674], Robins et al. 1991a [ref. 14237], Böhlke & Chaplin 1993, Allen & Robertson 1994 [ref. 22193], Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Eschmeyer 1998 [ref. 23416], Menezes et al. 2003 [ref. 27192], Reis et al. 2003 [ref. 27061], Nelson et al. 2004 [ref. 27807], Springer & Johnson 2004 [ref. 33199], Hoese et al. 2006, Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486], Kimura, Satapoomin & Matsuura 2009 [ref. 30425], Allen & Erdmann 2012 [ref. 31980], Fierstine, Huddleston & Takeuchi 2012]