Authorship

Original name

:

Scopoli, 1777. Introd. Nat. Hist.: 453.

Etymology

Greek Liparis, Name of a river.	Ref: H.D. Cameron & P.K. Tubbs, 1990: 297 [H.D. Cameron].
Greek liparos, oily.	Ref: H.D. Cameron & P.K. Tubbs, 1990: 297 [H.D. Cameron].

Gender

Feminine

Ref: ICZN, 1992. Opinion 1673: 95.

Attributes

Name placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology [ICZN, 1999: Art. 80.6]

Ref: ICZN, 1992. Opinion 1673: 95 [Ruling (2)]. [new]

Types

Type of	:	Liparidae (Family) Gill, 1861, nom. cons.		Ref: ICZN, 1992: 95.
Type of	:	Liparididae (Family) nom. van.
Type of	:	Liparinae (Subfamily) Gill, 1861
Type, by absolute tautonymy	:	Cyclopterus liparis Linnaeus, 1766		Ref: ICZN, 1992: 95.

Homonyms

Junior homonym	:	Liparis (Genus) Bosc, 1802, nom. illeg.		Ref: S.A. Neave (ed.), [2005]: 22 Sep 2011.
Allowed homonym	:	Liparis (Genus) Rich. (1817), nom. cons.

Vernacular Names (Latin)

Stem	:	Lipar-	Ref: ICZN, 1992: 95 [Ruling (1)]. [new]
	:	Liparid-	Ref: G.C. Steyskal, 1980: 170, 176.