Family Pholidae Gill 1893

Name and spelling in prevailing recent practice

Auchénoptères Duméril 1805:117 [ref. 1151] (family)? Muraenoides [no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Monactylia Rafinesque 1815:82 [ref. 3584] (subfamily)? Dactyleptus [no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Ophisominae Swainson 1839:73, 183 [ref. 4303] (subfamily) Ophisomus

Centronotinae Gill 1859b:146 [ref. 1762] (family) Centronotus Bloch & Schneider [preoccupied by Centronotini Bonaparte 1831 in fishes, invalid, Article 55.3]

Gunnelliformes Bleeker 1859d:XXV [ref. 371] (subfamily) Gunnellus

Muraenoididae Gill 1890a:3900 [ref. 32974] (family) Muraenoides

Pholididae Gill 1893b:136 [ref. 26255] (family) Pholis [genus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1; stem changed to Phol- by Bigelow 1917:273 [ref. 32848], confirmed by Jordan 1923a:234 [ref. 2421]; original stem Pholid- confirmed by Nelson 1976:274 [ref. 32838] (although he used Pholinae as subfamily!) and by Steyskal 1980:170 [ref. 14191]; Eschmeyer 1998:2485 [ref. 23416] and Nelson 2006:398 [ref. 32486] used Pholidae; family-group name also used as valid by: Schultz with Stern 1948 [ref. 31938], Bertin & Arambourg 1958, 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], Shiino 1976, Lagler, Bardach, Miller & May Passino 1977, Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Whitehead et al. (1986b) [ref. 13677], Robins et al. 1991a [ref. 14237], Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Mecklenburg 2003b [ref. 27299], Nelson et al. 2004 [ref. 27807], Springer & Johnson 2004 [ref. 33199]; not Pholidae in Mollusca = Pholadidae]

Apodichthyinae Hubbs 1927:351, 389 [ref. 2236] (subfamily) Apodichthys