Macroramphosinae Bleeker 1879

Laan, Richard Van Der, Eschmeyer, William N. & Fricke, Ronald, 2014, Family-group names of Recent fishes, Zootaxa 3882 (2), pp. 1-230 : 80-81

Subfamily Macroramphosinae Bleeker 1879

Name in prevailing recent practice

Siluridi Rafinesque 1810b:35 [ref. 3595] (ordine) Macroramphosus [no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Orthichthyinae Gill 1862j:234 (footnote) [ref. 1663] (subfamily) Orthichthys [family-group name never used as valid after 1899]

Macrorhamphoidei Bleeker 1879a:14 [ref. 460] (family) Macroramphosus [ Macrorhamphus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1; name must be corrected Article 32.5.3; stem corrected to Macroramphos- by Gill 1884c:156, 162 [ref. 17660]; family-group name used as valid by: Schultz with Stern 1948 [ref. 31938], Kamohara 1967, McAllister 1968 [ref. 26854], Lindberg 1971 [ref. 27211], Lagler, Bardach, Miller & May Passino 1977, Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Smith & Heemstra 1986 [ref. 5715], Whitehead et al. (1986a) [ref. 13676], Paxton et al. 1989 [ref. 12442], Quéro et al. 1990 [ref. 15946], Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Eschmeyer 1998 [ref. 23416], Menezes et al. 2003 [ref. 27192], Nelson et al. 2004 [ref. 27807], Hoese et al. 2006, Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486]; family name sometimes seen as † Rhamphosidae ]