Ochyroceratidae Fage, 1912

Pérez-González, Abel & Magalhaes, Ivan L. F., 2025, On Antillean ochyroceratines (Scytodoidea: Ochyroceratidae: Ochyroceratinae), with the description of three new species from Cuba, Zootaxa 5563 (1), pp. 264-289 : 266

Ochyroceratidae Fage, 1912

Remark. The original spelling of the family-group name Ochyroceratidae was not formed in accordance with Article 29.3 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) (1999), as the stem of the type genus Ochyrocera is Ochyrocer -, therefore the correct family-group name should be Ochyroceridae (to be Ochyroceratidae , the type genus should be Ochyroceras, stem Ochyrocerat -). To our knowledge the name Ochyroceridae has been previously used in four articles ( Gerhardt 1930; Slowik & Sikes 2011; Wunderlich 2012, 2015), but in three of them there is evidence that it was used as a misspelling of Ochyroceratidae . Here we maintain the original spelling Ochyroceratidae according to the Article 29.5 of the ICZN, which allows the maintenance of current spellings in prevailing usage, whether or not their derivation from the name of the type genus is in accordance with the grammatical procedures in Articles 29.3.1 and 29.3.2.