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Taxon: Subfamily Muraeninae Rafinesque, 1815 - morays (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation C.S. Rafinesque, 1815, orth. corr.
Original name & rank Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse: 93 ("S. F. Murenidia.").
Subsequent spelling

Attributes

Justified emendation (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Art. 33.2.2] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 31 ("stem corrected to Muraen- by Bonaparte 1831:162").
Justified emendation of suffix (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Arts. 29.2, 34.1 (family)] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 31. [inferred]

Types

Nominotypical taxon ofMuraenidae (Family) Rafinesque, 1815
TypeMuraena (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: R. Fricke et al. (eds.), 2021: 9 Apr 2025; [<14 May 2025]. [inferred]

Vernacular Names (English)

Full namemorays Ref: R. van der Laan et al. (eds.), 2021: (4 Feb 2025).
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