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Taxon: Order Gymnotiformes Gill, 1872 - Neotropical knifefishes (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation (T. Gill, 1872)
Original name Gill, T. 1872b. Smithson. Misc. Coll. 11 (no. 247): 18 ("Gymnonoti."); vi ("Sub-Order").
Subsequent rank
Incorrect (rank-group) authorship Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 37 ("Ordine. I Ginnotini."). [family, nom. vernac.].

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]Gymnotidae (Family) Rafinesque, 1815
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]Gymnotoidei (Suborder) Ref: E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson, 2010: 140. [implicit]

Vernacular Names (English)

Full nameNeotropical knifefishes Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 238.
American knifefishes Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 186.
knifefishes Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2463.
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