Family Pentanchidae Smith 1912 Pentanchidae Smith 1912:489 [ref. 4041] (family) Pentanchus [family name sometimes seen as Pentachidae; authorship sometimes seen as Smith & Radcliffe, but Radcliffe only assisted with the new genus and species] Galeinae Fowler 1934a:234 [ref. 1416] (subfamily) Galeus Rafinesque [preoccupied by Galei Müller & Henle 1839 in fishes, Article 55.3] Halaeluridae White 1936a:4 [ref. 31933] (family) Halaelurus [name only, but used as valid by White 1936b:18 [ref. 32585] and by White 1937:107 [ref. 26324] Article 13.2.1]Published as part of Laan, Richard Van Der, Eschmeyer, William N. & Fricke, Ronald, 2014, Family-group names of Recent fishes, pp. 1-230 in Zootaxa 3882 (2) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.38...