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Taxon: Family Engraulidae Gill, 1861 - anchovies (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation (T. Gill, 1861) D.S. Jordan & B.W. Evermann, 1896
Original name Gill, T. 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1861 [Suppl.]: 55. [subfamily "Engraulinae"].
Subsequent rank Jordan, D.S. & Evermann, B.W. 1896a. Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus. (no. 47) 1: 439.
Subsequent spelling Jordan, D.S. 1923. Stanford Univ. Publ. (Biol.) 3 (2): 122.

Attributes

Imperfect name (orth. inval.: orth. imperf.) [ICZN] Ref: G.C. Steyskal, 1980. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 93 (1): 170. [false].
Correct [original] spelling [ICZN, 1999: Art. 29.3.1.1 (fam.: -id-)] Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 1 Jun 2024.
Spelling in prevailing usage (: [orth. praeval.]) [ICZN, 1999: Art. 29.3.1.1 (fam.: -id-)] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 36 ("Spelling in prevailing recent practice").

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]Engraulinae (Subfamily) Gill, 1861 Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 131. [implicit]
TypeEngraulis (Genus) Cuvier, 1816 Ref: R. van der Laan et al., 2014: 36. [implicit]

Variants

BasionymEngraulinae (Subfamily) Gill, 1861 Ref: R. van der Laan et al., 2014: 36.
Correct spellingEngraulididae (Family) Gill, 1861, nom. emend. Ref: G.C. Steyskal, 1980: 170.
Former spellingEngraulididae (Family) Gill, 1861, nom. emend. Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 130.
Former spellingEngraulididae (Family) Gill, 1861, nom. emend. Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 167.

Synonyms

IncludingCoilinae (Subfamily) nom. imperf.
IncludingStolephoridae (Family) Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 130.
IncludingStolephoridae (Family) Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 167.

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full nameansjovisachtigen Ref: B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975

Vernacular Names (English)

Full nameanchovies Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 167; ECoF(4 Feb 2025).
anchovies Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2455.
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