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Monotypic taxon: Family Coryphaenidae Rafinesque, 1815 - dolphinfishes (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  (Rafinesque, 1815)
Unavailable original name & rank:  Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 29 ("Ordine. I Corifenidi."). [family, nom. vernac.; published not in latinized form before 1900; not available, Article 11.7.2]. ≡
Unavailable original name & rank:  Rafinesque, 1814: 17. [family "Corifenidi", nom. vernac.; published not in latinized form before 1900; not available, Article 11.7.2].
Original name:  Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse: 86 ("S. F. Coryphenia."). ≡
Subsequent rank: 
Source for the authorship:  van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 99 ("Rafinesque 1815").

Attributes

Justified emendation (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Art. 33.2.2] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 99 ("stem corrected to Coryphaen- by Latreille 1825:131").

Types

Type: Coryphaena (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 361. [implicit]

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: grondmakrelen
: goudmakrelen

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: dolphinfishes Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 384; ECoF(4 Feb 2025).
: dolphins Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2479.
: dolphinfishes Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2479.
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