Rachycentridae Gill 1896

Family Rachycentridae Gill 1896 Name in prevailing usage, Article 35.5 Elacateiformes Bleeker 1859d:XXII [ref. 371] (subfamily) Elacate [stem changed to Elacat- by Gill 1861a:37 [ref. 1766], confirmed by Poey 1867:208 [ref. 32247], by Gill 1873:788 [ref. 17631] and by Myers & Storey 1956:15 [ref. 32831]; subfamily-name later used in Coleoptera; not used as valid in fishes after 1899 Article 23.9.1.1] Rachicentridae Gill 1896f:218 [ref. 33078] (family) Rachycentron [as Rachicentron, name must be corrected Article 32.5.3; Rachycentridae according to Gill 1896f:218 [ref. 33078] not correct; corrected to Rachycentridae by Jordan & Evermann 1896a:947 [ref. 2443], confirmed by Jordan 1923a:186 [ref 2421]; Boulenger 1904a:181 [ref. 15112] used Rhachicentridae; Rachycentridae also used as valid by: Schultz with Stern 1948 [ref. 31938], Bailey et al. 1960 [ref. 27285], Lagler, Bardach & Miller 1962, Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman & Myers 1966 [ref. 26856], Kamohara 1967, McAllister 1968 [ref. 26854], Lindberg 1971 [ref. 27211], Nelson 1976 [ref. 32838], Shiino 1976, Lagler, Bardach, Miller & May Passino 1977, Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Smith & Heemstra 1986 [ref. 5715], Whitehead et al. (1986a) [ref. 13676], Bauchot & Desoutter 1989 [ref. 15502], Shaffer & Nakamura 1989 [ref. 13517], McAllister 1990 [ref. 14674], Quéro et al. 1990 [ref. 15946], Robins et al. 1991a [ref. 14237], Böhlke & Chaplin 1993, Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Springer & Raasch 1995:106 [ref. 25656], Eschmeyer 1998 [ref. 23416], O'Toole 2002 [ref. 26411], Collette 2003 [ref. 27087], Menezes et al. 2003 [ref. 27192], Nelson et al. 2004 [ref. 27807], Hoese & Paxton 2006 [ref. 29087], Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486], Springer & Smith-Vaniz 2008 [ref. 31826], Kimura, Satapoomin & Matsuura 2009 [ref. 30425], Allen & Erdmann 2012 [ref. 31980], so the family-group name Rachycentridae is in prevailing usage Article 23.9.1; family name sometimes seen as Rhachycentridae]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 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/704777