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Taxon: Family Ophidiidae Rafinesque, 1810 - cusk-eels (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  Rafinesque, 1810, orth. corr.
Original name & rank:  Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 38 ("Ordine. Gli Ofidini."). [family, nom. vernac.]. ≡
Latinized name:  Bonaparte, 1831: 162, 184. [family "Ophididae"].
Subsequent spelling:  Lowe, 1843: 92 ("Fam. Ophidiidæ"). ≡
Source for the authorship:  van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 67 ("Rafinesque 1810").

Attributes

Justified emendation (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Art. 33.2.2] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 67 ("stem corrected to Ophidi-").
Available family-group name, later latinized [ICZN, 1999: Art. 11.7.2 (<1900)] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 68 ("Article 11.7.2").

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Ophidiinae (Subfamily) Rafinesque, 1810 Ref: R. van der Laan et al. (eds.), 2021: (4 Feb 2025). [inferred]
Type: Ophidion (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: N. Bailly et al. (comps.), 2001: 366; 4 Feb 2021. [inferred]
Type: Ophidium (Genus) Linnaeus, 1766

Synonyms

Including: Aphyonidae (Family) Jordan & Evermann, 1898 Ref: R.A. Fritzsche, 1982: 891.
Including: Brotulidae (Family) Swainson, 1838 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 607.
Including: Carapidae (Family) Poey, 1867, nom. protect., nom. praeval. Ref: R. Betancur-R et al., 2017: 22.

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: cusk-eels Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 317; ECoF(4 Feb 2025).
: cuskeels Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2467.
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