Family Cryptacanthodidae Gill 1861

Cryptacanthoidae Gill 1861a:46 [ref. 1766] (family) Cryptacanthodes [corrected to Cryptacanthodidae by Gill 1885a:259 [ref. 1653], confirmed by Jordan 1923a:235 [ref. 2421], by Lindberg 1971:166 [ref. 27211], by Nelson 1976:274 [ref. 32838] and by Fierstine, Huddleston & Takeuchi 2012:137; family name sometimes seen as Cryptacanthidae]