Family Pempheridae

Spelling in prevailing recent practice

Pempheridoidei Bleeker 1859d:56 [ref. 371] (family) Pempheris [stem changed to Pempher- by Gill 1862k:238 [ref. 1664], confirmed by Klunzinger 1871:469 [ref. 2622], by Jordan & Evermann 1896a:977 [ref. 2443], by Ogilby 1913:62 [ref. 3291], by Regan 1913c:112, 125 [ref. 3654], by Lindberg 1971:138 [ref. 27211] and by Nelson 1976:241 [ref. 32838]; original stem Pempherid- confirmed by Steyskal 1980:170 [ref. 14191]; Eschmeyer 1998:2481 [ref. 23416] and Nelson 2006:374 [ref. 32486] used Pempheridae]