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Taxon: Family Esocidae Rafinesque, 1815 - pikes (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  (Rafinesque, 1815) Jarocki, 1822, orth. corr.
Unavailable original name & rank:  Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 34 ("Ordine. Gli Esocidi."). [family, nom. vernac.; published not in latinized form before 1900; not available, Article 11.7.2]. ≡
Original name:  Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse: 89 ("S.F. Esoxidia."). ≡
Subsequent rank:  Jarocki, F.P. 1822. Zoologiia 4: tbls. IV (p. 27: "Familiae"), X (p. 102). ("Esoces.").
Subsequent spelling: 
Source for the authorship:  van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 57 ("Rafinesque 1815").

Attributes

Justified emendation (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Art. 33.2.2] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 57 ("stem corrected to Esoc-").
Justified emendation of suffix (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Arts. 29.2, 34.1 (family)] Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 18 Jun 2024.

Types

Nominotypical taxon of: Esociformes (Order) Bleeker, 1859
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Esocinae (Subfamily) Rafinesque, 1815 Ref: R. van der Laan et al. (eds.), 2021: (4 Feb 2025). [inferred]
Type: Esox (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: R. Fricke et al. (eds.), 2021: 20 May 2025; [<10 Jun 2025]. [inferred]

Variants

Incorrect spelling: Esodidae (Family) Ross, 1959 Ref: E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson, 2010: 142. [inferred]

Synonyms

Including: Umbridae (Family) Bonaparte, 1845 Ref: E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson, 2010: 142. [indirect]

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

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

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: pikes Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 249; ECoF(4 Feb 2025).
: pikes Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2463.
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