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Taxon: Family Stromateidae Rafinesque, 1810 - butterfishes (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  Rafinesque, 1810, orth. corr.
Original name & rank:  Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 39 ("Ordine. I Stromatini."). [family, nom. vernac.]. ≡
Latinized name:  Latreille, 1825: 130. ["Stromateides"].
Subsequent spelling: 
Source for the authorship:  van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 128 ("Rafinesque 1810").

Attributes

Justified emendation (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Art. 33.2.2] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 128. [stem corrected to Stromate-]. [inferred]
Available family-group name, later latinized [ICZN, 1999: Art. 11.7.2 (<1900)] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 128 ("Article 11.7.2").
Justified emendation of suffix (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Arts. 29.2, 34.1 (family)] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 128. [inferred]

Types

Nominotypical taxon of: Stromateoidei (Suborder)
Type: Stromateus (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 437; [<28 Feb 2024]. [inferred]

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: grootbekken

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: butterfishes Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 420; ECoF(4 Feb 2025).
: butterfishes Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2491.
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