title: Family-group names of Recent fishes.
abstract: The family-group names of animals (superfamily, family, subfamily, supertribe, tribe and subtribe) are regulated by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Family names are particularly important because they are among the most widely used of all technical animal names. Apart from using the correct family-group name according to the Code, it is also important to use one unique universal name (with a fixed spelling) to avoid confusion. We have compiled a list of family-group names for Recent fishes, applied the rules of the Code and, if possible, tried to conserve the names in prevailing recent practice. We list all of the family-group names found to date for Recent fishes (N=2625), together with their author(s) and year of publication. This list can be used in assigning the correct family-group name to a genus or a group of genera. With this publication we contribute to the usage of correct, universal family-group names in the classification of, and for communication about, Recent fishes.
authors.affiliation: Grasmeent 80, 1357JJ Almere, The Netherlands.; Email: richard.vanderlaan80@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Van Der Laan
authors.affiliation: Curator Emeritus, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA.; Email: weschmeyer@calacademy.org.
authors.forename: William N
authors.initials: WN
authors.lastname: Eschmeyer
authors.affiliation: Im Ramstal 76, 97922 Lauda-Königshofen, Germany. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, D-70191 Stuttgart, Germany; Email: ronfricke@web.de.
authors.forename: Ronald
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fricke
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D018940:Elasmobranchii / Q000145:classification; D005399:Fishes / Q000145:classification*; D007798:Lampreys / Q000145:classification; D009626:Terminology as Topic