Family Oplegnathidae Bleeker 1853

Name in prevailing recent practice, Article 35.5

Scarodontini Bonaparte 1850b [ref. 32551] (subfamily) Scaradon [ Scarodon inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1; name must be corrected Article 32.5.3]

Hoplegnathoïdei Bleeker 1853:6 [ref. 16922] (family) Oplegnathus [as Hoplegnathus, name must be corrected Article 32.5.3; also Bleeker 1859d:XXII [ref. 371]; changed to Hoplognathidae by Günther 1869:146 [ref. 32629] based on Hoplognathus [as already in the index of Günther 1861c:xxii [ref. 1964]]; corrected to Oplegnathidae by Jordan & Fowler 1902:75 [ref. 32378], confirmed by Snodgrass & Heller 1905:397 [ref. 12322] and by Jordan 1923a:200 [ref. 2421]; Oplegnathidae also used as valid by: Schultz with Stern 1948 [ref. 31938], Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman & Myers 1966 [ref. 26856], Kamohara 1967, McAllister 1968 [ref. 26854], Lindberg 1971 [ref. 27211], Nelson 1976 [ref. 32838], Shiino 1976, Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Smith & Heemstra 1986 [ref. 5715], Allen & Robertson 1994 [ref. 22193], Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Eschmeyer 1998 [ref. 23416], Hoese et al. 2006, Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486], Randall 2007 [ref. 30952]]