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Taxon: Family Liparidae Gill, 1861, nom. cons. - snailfishes (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  Gill, 1861, nom. praeocc., nom. cons.
Original name:  Gill, 1861. Catalogue of the fishes of the eastern coast of North America, from Greenland to Georgia: 47.

Attributes

Junior homonym (nom. illeg.: "nom. praeocc.") [ICZN] Ref: H.D. Cameron & P.K. Tubbs, 1990. Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 47 (4): 298 [P.K. Tubbs].
Name placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology [ICZN, 1999: Art. 80.6] Ref: ICZN, 1992. Opinion 1673: 95 (Ruling (4)). [new]

Types

Type: Liparis (Genus) Scopoli, 1777 Ref: ICZN, 1992: 95.

Variants

Different rank: Liparinae (Subfamily) Gill, 1861
Former rank: Liparidinae (Subfamily) nom. van. Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer & J.D. Fong, 2011: 34. [indirect]
Former rank: Liparinae (Subfamily) Gill, 1861 Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer & J.D. Fong, 2011: 34. [indirect]
Incorrect spelling: Liparididae (Family) nom. van. Ref: ICZN, 1992: 95 [Ruling (1)]. [new] [indirect]
Current spelling: Liparididae (Family) nom. van. Ref: E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson, 2010: 161. [indirect]

Homonyms

Senior homonym: Liparidae (Family) Boisduval, 1834, nom. illeg. Ref: H.D. Cameron & P.K. Tubbs, 1990: 297-298 [P.K. Tubbs]. [implicit]

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: snailfishes
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