Family Serrasalmidae Bleeker 1859

Serrasalmi Swainson 1838:256 [ref. 4302] (no family-group name)

Serrasalmoniformes Bleeker 1859d:XXXI [ref. 371] (subfamily) Serrasalmus [as Serrasalmo, name must be corrected Article 32.5.3; corrected to Serrasalminae by Fowler 1907b:468 [ref. 1374], confirmed by Eigenmann 1907:772 [ref. 1220]]

Mylesinae Eigenmann 1903:147 [ref. 1218] (subfamily) Myleus [changed to Mylinae by Eigenmann in Eigenmann, McAtee & Ward 1907:154 [ref. 1261]; corrected to Myleinae by Eigenmann 1907:771 [ref. 1220], confirmed by Fowler 1950:385 [ref. 18869] and by Géry 1972b:50 [ref. 1594]]

Catoprionidi Fowler 1958b:11 [ref. 1470] (tribe) Catoprion