Subfamily Harpadontinae Bleeker 1875

Name in prevailing recent practice

Sauridoidei Bleeker 1859a:356 [ref. 16983] (family) Saurida [also Bleeker 1859b:372 [ref. 16984] and Bleeker 1859d:XXXII [ref. 371]; family-group name not used as valid after 1899 in fishes; Saurididae occupied in Reptilia]

Harpadontini Bleeker 1870–75:151, 156 [ref. 428] (phalanx ≈ tribe) Harpadon [stem changed to Harpadonby Fowler 1958b:7 [ref. 1470]; family-group name used as valid by: McAllister 1968 [ref. 26854], Lindberg 1971 [ref. 27211], Nelson 1976 [ref. 32838], Lagler, Bardach, Miller & May Passino 1977, Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Paxton et al. 1989 [ref. 12442], Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Eschmeyer 1998 [ref. 23416], Chen (2002) [ref. 26587], Hoese et al. 2006, Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486]; family name sometimes seen as Harpodontidae]