Sphyrnidae Bonaparte 1840

Laan, Richard Van Der, Eschmeyer, William N. & Fricke, Ronald, 2014, Family-group names of Recent fishes, Zootaxa 3882 (2), pp. 1-230 : 20-21

Family Sphyrnidae Bonaparte 1840

Name in prevailing recent practice, Article 35.5

Zyganinae Swainson 1838:158 [ref. 4302] (subfamily) Zygaena [as Zygana , name must be corrected Article 32.5.3; also Swainson 1839:192, 318 [ref. 4303]; stem corrected to Zygaen- by Owen 1846:51 [ref. 32214], confirmed by Bleeker 1859d:XI [ref. 371], by Klunzinger 1871:665 [ref. 2622], by Gill 1889e:2698 [ref. 32834] and by Carus 1893:513 [ref. 17975]]

Sphyrnini Bonaparte 1840:fasc. 27, puntate 140 [ref. 514] (subfamily) Sphyrna [ Sphyrnidae used as valid by: Jordan 1923 [ref. 2421], Schultz with Stern 1948 [ref. 31938], Kamohara 1967, Lindberg 1971 [ref. 27211], Gilbert 1973 [ref. 7164], Nelson 1976 [ref. 32838], Shiino 1976, Lagler, Bardach, Miller & May Passino 1977, Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Whitehead et al. (1984) [ref. 13675], Smith & Heemstra 1986 [ref. 5715], Paxton et al. 1989 [ref. 12442], Springer 1990c [ref. 19320], Robins et al. 1991a [ref. 14237], Allen & Robertson 1994 [ref. 22193], Last & Stevens 1994 [ref. 23873], Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Eschmeyer 1998 [ref. 23416], Compagno 1999 [ref. 25589], Chu & Meng 2001, Menezes et al. 2003 [ref. 27192], Nelson et al. 2004 [ref. 27807], Hoese et al. 2006, Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486], Last & Stevens 2009, Allen & Erdmann 2012 [ref. 31980]]

Cestraciontoidae Gill 1861a:59 [ref. 1766] (subfamily) Cestracion Klein [not available; also preoccupied by Cestraciontini Bonaparte 1835 in fishes, Article 55.3, and objective junior synonym of Sphyrnini Bonaparte 1840; family name sometimes seen as Cestracionidae ]