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Taxon: Family Myxinidae Rafinesque, 1815 - hagfishes (fish)

Entity:

Authorship

SN2000 author citation	:			(Rafinesque, 1815)
Unavailable original name & rank	:			Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 49 ("Ordine. I Missinidi."). [family, nom. vernac.; published not in latinized form before 1900; not available, Article 11.7.2]. ≡
Original name	:			Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse: 94 ("Myxinia"). [subfamily].
Subsequent rank	:
Source for the authorship	:			van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 14 ("Rafinesque 1815").

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]	:	*Myxininae* (Subfamily) Rafinesque, 1815		Ref: R. van der Laan et al. (eds.), 2021: (4 Feb 2025). [inferred]
Type	:	*Myxine* (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758

Synonyms

Including

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Bdellostomatidae (Family) Gill, 1872

Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 596.

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name	:	hagfishes	Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 20; ECoF(4 Feb 2025).
	:	hagfishes	Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: [2449].

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