Subfamily Mobulinae Gill 1893

Name in prevailing recent practice

Cephalopterini Bonaparte 1835:[2] [ref. 32242] (subfamily) Cephaloptera [genus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1; also as new subfamily Cephalopterinae in Fowler 1934b:163 [ref. 32669]]

Pterocephalinae Swainson 1838:174 [ref. 4302] (subfamily) Pterocephalus [also Swainson 1839:192, 320 [ref. 4303]; later used as Pterocephalinae Kobayashi 1935 or Pterocephaliidae Lochmann 1956 in trilobites (Temple 1962)]

Dicerobatididae Cantor 1849:1419 [ref. 715] (family) Dicerobatis [changed to Dicerobatidae by Schmiedeknecht 1906:451 [ref. 33177]]

Massenoideae Hill 1862:174 [ref. 21782] (group?) Cephaloptera [no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Ceratopterina Günther 1870:435, 496 [ref. 1995] (group) Ceratoptera [Whitley 1936a:167 [ref. 6075] used Ceratopteridae]

Mantidae Jordan 1887:558 [ref. 2388] (family) Manta [ Mantinae preoccupied in Orthoptera, invalid, Article 55.3]

Mobulidae Gill 1893b:130 [ref. 26255] (family) Mobula [genus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1; family-group name used as valid by: Schultz with Stern 1948 [ref. 31938], Kamohara 1967, Lindberg 1971 [ref. 27211], Krefft & Stehmann 1973 [ref. 7167], Nelson 1976 [ref. 32838], Lagler, Bardach, Miller & May Passino 1977, Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Whitehead et al. (1984) [ref. 13675], Smith & Heemstra 1986 [ref. 5715], Notarbartolo-di-Sciara 1987 [ref. 9133], Paxton et al. 1989 [ref. 12442], McEachran & Séret 1990 [ref. 19318], Robins et al. 1991a [ref. 14237], Böhlke & Chaplin 1993, Allen & Robertson 1994 [ref. 22193], Last & Stevens 1994 [ref. 23873], Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Springer & Raasch 1995:105 [ref. 25656], Eschmeyer 1998 [ref. 23416], Compagno 1999 [ref. 25589], Chu & Meng 2001, Menezes et al. 2003 [ref. 27192], Nelson et al. 2004 [ref. 27807], Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486], Last & Stevens 2009, Marshall, Compagno & Bennett 2009 [ref. 30599], Allen & Erdmann 2012 [ref. 31980]]

Aodontidae Jordan & Evermann 1898b:2756 [ref. 2445] (family) Aodon

Indomantinae Whitley 1936a:183 [ref. 6075] (subfamily) Indomanta

Ceratobatinae Whitley 1936a:188 [ref. 6075] (subfamily) Ceratobatis [correct stem is Ceratobatid-]