Family Prochilodontidae Eigenmann 1909

Name in prevailing recent practice, Article 35.5

Pacini Bleeker 1859d:XXXII [ref. 371] (stirps) Pacu

Prochilodinae Eigenmann 1909b:253 [ref. 1223] (subfamily) Prochilodus [genus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1; stem corrected to Prochilodont- by Regan 1911e:21 [ref. 3642], confirmed by Lindberg 1971:84 [ref. 27211] and by Castro & Vari 2004:1 [ref. 28606]; family-group name also used as valid by: McAllister 1968 [ref. 26854], Lindberg 1971 [ref. 27211], Géry 1972b [ref. 1594], Roberts 1973 [ref. 7051], Nelson 1976 [ref. 32838], Géry 1977 [ref. 1597], Vari 1983 [ref. 5419], Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Sterba 1990, Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Eschmeyer 1998 [ref. 23416], Malabarba et al. 1998 [ref. 23777], Reis et al. 2003 [ref. 27061], Castro & Vari 2004 [ref. 28606], Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486], Buckup, Menezes & Ghazzi 2007]