Subfamily Muraeninae Rafinesque 1815

Pantoptères Duméril 1805:114 [ref. 1151] (family)? Muraena [no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Murenidi Rafinesque 1810b:44 [ref. 3595] (ordine) Muraena [published not in latinized form before 1900; not available, Article 11.7.2]

Murenidia Rafinesque 1815:93 [ref. 3584] (subfamily) Muraena [as Murena, name must be corrected Article 32.5.3; stem corrected to Muraen- by Bonaparte 1831:162 [ref. 4978], confirmed by Minding 1832:VI, 72 [ref. 3022]]

Enchelyoides Goldfuss 1820: VI, 44 [ref. 1829] (family)? Gymnothorax [no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Thyrsoideinae Kaup 1856a:59 [ref. 2572] (subfamily) Thyrsoides [as Thyrsoidea, name must be corrected Article 32.5.3; also erroneously as Thyrsodeinae Kaup 1856b:71 [ref. 2573]]

Gymnothoracoidei Bleeker 1863a:17, 129 [ref. 395] (family) Gymnothorax [also Bleeker 1864–65:6, 72 [ref. 4860]]

Muraenophides Bleeker 1864–65, 1864:6 and 1865:73, 76 [ref. 4860] (phalanx ≈ tribe) Murenophis [as Muraenophis, name must be corrected Article 32.5.3; no valid type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Echidnidae Fowler 1925:2 [ref. 1401] (family) Echidna [also as subfamily Echidninae]

Heteromyridae Pietschmann 1935:93 [ref. 3477] (family) Heteromyrus

Lycodontidae Myers & Storey 1956:19 [ref. 32831] Lycodontis [genus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1; unavailable publication; also preoccupied in snakes]