Subfamily Pterothrissinae Gill 1893

Name in prevailing recent practice

Bathythrissidae Günther 1877:443 [ref. 2009] (family) Bathythrissa [family-group name not used as valid after 1899]

Pterothrissidae Gill 1893b:131 [ref. 26255] (family) Pterothrissus [genus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1; family-group name used as valid by: Schultz with Stern 1948 [ref. 31938], Kamohara 1967, McAllister 1968 [ref. 26854], Lindberg 1971 [ref. 27211], Nelson 1976 [ref. 32838], Shiino 1976, Greenwood 1977, Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Whitehead 1990 [ref. 19325], Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Eschmeyer 1998 [ref. 23416], Zhang 2001 [ref. 26586], Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486]]