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Taxon: Family Centriscidae Bonaparte, 1831 - snipefishes (fish)
 Entity: 

Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  (Bonaparte, 1831)
Unavailable original name & rank:  Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 34 ("Ordine. (a) I Centrischini."). [family, nom. vernac.; published not in latinized form before 1900; not available, Article 11.7.2]. ≡
Unavailable original name & rank:  Risso, 1827: 112. [family "Les Centriscides", nom. vernac.; published not in latinized form before 1900; not available, Article 11.7.2].
Original name:  Bonaparte, 1831: 178. [subfamily "Centriscini"].
Subsequent rank: 
Source for the authorship:  van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 80 ("Bonaparte 1831").

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Centriscinae (Subfamily) Bonaparte, 1831 Ref: R. van der Laan et al. (eds.), 2021: (4 Feb 2025). [inferred]
Type: Centriscus (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 316; 9 Feb 2024. [inferred]

Variants

Former rank: Centriscinae (Subfamily) Bonaparte, 1831 Ref: E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson, 2010: 154. [indirect]

Synonyms

Including: Macrorhamphosidae (Family) Ref: [Anonymous], 1995

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: snipmesvisjes Ref: B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: snipefishes Ref: R. van der Laan et al. (eds.), 2021: (4 Feb 2025).
: shrimpfishes Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 410; ECoF(4 Feb 2025).
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