Family Aulostomidae Rafinesque 1815

Aulostomia Rafinesque 1815:90 [ref. 3584] (subfamily) Aulostomus [stem changed to Aulostomat- by Weber & de Beaufort 1922:8 [ref. 4598]; original stem Aulostom- confirmed by Jordan 1923a:175 [ref. 2421], by Fowler 1958a:4 [ref. 31840] and by Nelson 1976:194 [ref. 32838]]

Polypterichthyoidei Bleeker 1859d:XXIII [ref. 371] (family) Polypterichthys