Family Heteropneustidae Hora 1936

Name in prevailing recent practice, Article 35.5

Saccobranchini Bleeker 1858a:40 [ref. 32230] (phalanx) Saccobranchus [also Bleeker 1858b:335, 336 [ref. 365]; family-group name not used as valid after 1899]

Heteropneustidae Hora 1936:209 [ref. 13703] (family) Heteropneustes [ Heteropneustidae used as valid by: Schultz with Stern 1948 [ref. 31938], McAllister 1968 [ref. 26854], Lindberg 1971 [ref. 27211], Nelson 1976 [ref. 32838], Shiino 1976, Lagler, Bardach, Miller & May Passino 1977, Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Burgess 1989 [ref. 12860], Sterba 1990, Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Eschmeyer 1998 [ref. 23416], Diogo, Chardon & Vandewalle 2003 [ref. 27438], Jayaram 2006 [ref. 28762], Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486], Sullivan, Lundberg & Hardman 2006 [ref. 28869], Hossain, Sarker, Sharifuzzaman & Rahman Chowdhury 2013 [ref. 33105]]