Subfamily Sternoptychinae Duméril 1805

Sternoptyges Duméril 1805:150 [ref. 1151] (family) Sternoptyx [corrected to Sternoptigia by Rafinesque 1815:92 [ref. 3584] (subfamily) based on Sternoptix; changed to Sternopterygii by Jarocki 1822:326, 328 [ref. 4984]; stem changed to Sternoptix- by Handyside 1839:326 [ref. 33122] based on Sternoptix; stem corrected to Sternoptych- by Bleeker 1859d:XXXII [ref. 371], confirmed by Günther 1864:384 [ref. 1974], by Moreau 1881:v.3 497 [ref. 3040] and by Schultz 1961:590 [ref. 10156]; considered valid with this authorship by Gill 1884e:350 [ref. 32840], by Gill 1893b:131 [ref. 26255], by Wilimovsky 1951:248 [ref. 33066] and by Nolf 1985:52 [ref. 32698] Article 11.7.2; family name sometimes seen as Sternoptychiidae or Sternoptichidae]

Pomanchia Rafinesque 1815:92 [ref. 3584] (family)? Sternoptyx [no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Argyropeleci Fitzinger 1873:33 [ref. 31883] (family) Argyropelecus

Polyipninae Gill 1893b:131 [ref. 26255] (subfamily) Polyipnus [genus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1]