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Taxon: Family †Pleuracanthidae Woodward, 1889, nom. illeg. (fish)
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Authorship

Original name, rank & spelling Woodward, 1889: 1.
Incorrect (rank-group) authorship Hasse, 1878: 169. ["Pleuracanthidae"; no family-group name].

Attributes

Invalid name: type genus is a junior homonym (nom. illeg.) [ICZN, 1999: Art. 39] Ref: R. van der Laan, 2018. Eur. J. Taxon. 466: 36 ("type genus preoccupied ...; invalid, Art. 39").

Types

TypePleuracanthus (Genus) Agassiz, 1837, nom. illeg. Ref: R. van der Laan, 2018: 36.

Synonyms

Accepted nameXenacanthidae (Family) Geinitz, 1860 Ref: D.S. Jordan, 1923: 91.
Accepted nameXenacanthidae (Family) Geinitz, 1860 Ref: R. van der Laan, 2018: 36.
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