Subfamily Pseudamiinae Smith 1954

Name in prevailing recent practice

Henicichthyidae Tanaka 1915:568 [ref. 4324] (family) Henicichthys [family name sometimes seen as Henichthyidae]

Gymnapogonidae Whitley 1941:30 [ref. 4701] (family) Gymnapogon [name only, but used as valid by Fowler 1944b:190 [ref. 1451], by Fowler 1949:82 [ref. 1462] and by Lindberg 1971:142 [ref. 27211] Article 13.2.1]

Pseudamiinae Smith 1954b:775, 777 [ref. 4093] (subfamily) Pseudamia [family-group name used as valid by: Smith 1955f [ref. 4101], Fraser 1972 [ref. 5195], Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Smith & Heemstra 1986 [ref. 5715], Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Gon 1995 [ref. 21822], Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486]; stem sometimes seen as Pseudam-]

Paxtoninae Fraser & Mabuchi in Mabuchi, Fraser, Song, Azuma & Nishida 2014:176 [ref. 33426] (subfamily) Paxton