Family Ostraciidae Rafinesque 1810

Ostéodermes Duméril 1805:108 [ref. 1151] (family)? Ostracion [no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Ostracidi Rafinesque 1810b:39 [ref. 3595] (ordine) Ostracion [latinized to Ostracidia by Rafinesque 1815:90 [ref. 3584] (subfamily); latinized to Ostraciontini by Bonaparte 1835:[6] [ref. 32242] (subfamily), confirmed by Günther 1870:255 [ref. 1995]; stem changed to Ostracion- by Bonaparte 1846:8 [ref. 519]; stem corrected to Ostraci- by Jordan 1923a:240 [ref. 2421], confirmed by Steyskal 1980:175 [ref. 14191], by Nelson 1994:446 [ref. 26204] and by Nelson 2006:455 [ref. 32486]; considered valid with this authorship by Gill 1893b:138 [ref. 26255], by Patterson 1993:653 [ref. 32940] and by Sheiko 2013:136 [ref. 32944] Article 11.7.2]

Lactophrysinae Fraser-Brunner 1941:307 [ref. 13238] (subfamily) Lactophrys [genus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1]