Family Hemitripteridae Gill 1865

Name in prevailing recent practice, Article 35.5

Blepsinae Swainson 1839:181, 268 [ref. 4303] (subfamily) Blepsias [stem corrected to Blepsi- by Jordan & Evermann 1898a:1883 [ref. 2444], confirmed by Myers & Storey 1956:12 [ref. 32831] and by Lindberg 1971:190 [ref. 27211]; stem sometimes seen as Blepisi-]

Hemitripterinae Gill 1865c:251 [ref. 1707] (subfamily) Hemitripterus [ Hemitripteridae used as valid by: Jordan 1923 [ref. 2421], Schmidt 1950 [ref. 12471], Lindberg 1971 [ref. 27211], Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Eschmeyer 1998 [ref. 23416], Mecklenburg 2003a [ref. 27294], Nelson et al. 2004 [ref. 27807], Vinnikov, Novikov & Vinnikov 2004 [ref. 27723], Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486]]

Nautichthyinae Taranetz 1941:434 [ref. 5535] (subfamily) Nautichthys