Subfamily Microdesminae Regan 1912

Name in prevailing recent practice

Cerdalaidae [ Cerdalidae] Gill 1885a:261 [ref. 1653] (family) Cerdale [genus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1; corrected to Cerdalidae by Jordan & Evermann 1896b:478 [ref. 2442], confirmed by Fowler 1938b:260 [ref. 1428], by Myers & Storey 1956:13 [ref. 32831], by Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman & Myers 1966:402 [ref. 26856] and by Lindberg 1971:124 [ref. 27211]]

Microdesmidae Regan 1912c:274 [ref. 3646] (family) Microdesmus [ Microdesmidae used as valid by: Jordan 1923 [ref. 2421], Schultz with Stern 1948 [ref. 31938], 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], Quéro et al. 1990 [ref. 15946], Robins et al. 1991a [ref. 14237], Böhlke & Chaplin 1993, Allen & Robertson 1994 [ref. 22193], Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Springer & Raasch 1995:105 [ref. 25656], Eschmeyer 1998 [ref. 23416], Larson 2001c [ref. 26296], Menezes et al. 2003 [ref. 27192], Paugy, Lévêque & Teugels 2003b [ref. 29208], Nelson et al. 2004 [ref. 27807], Springer & Johnson 2004 [ref. 33199], Hoese et al. 2006, Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486], Stiassny, Teugels & Hopkins 2007b [ref. 30010], Wu & Zhong 2008, Allen & Erdmann 2012 [ref. 31980], Randall & Connell 2013 [ref. 32942]]

Paragobioidinae Schultz 1943:262 [ref. 3957] (subfamily) Paragobioides

Gunnellichthidae Smith 1958a:123 [ref. 4119] (family) Gunnellichthys [stem corrected to Gunnellichthy- by Schultz in Schultz, Woods & Lachner 1966:10 [ref. 5366], confirmed by Hayashi in Masuda, Amaoka, Uyeno & Yoshino 1988:288 [ref. 13363] and by Sheiko 2013:124 [ref. 32944]]