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Taxon: Family Chaetodontidae Rafinesque, 1815 - butterflyfishes (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  Rafinesque, 1815, orth. corr.
Unavailable original name & rank:  Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 16 ("Ordine. I Chetodonidi."). [family, nom. vernac.; published not in latinized form before 1900; not available, Article 11.7.2]. ≡
Original name & rank:  Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse: 83 ("Famille. Chetodonia."). ≡
Subsequent spelling: 
Source for the authorship:  van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 106 ("Rafinesque 1815").

Attributes

Justified emendation (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Art. 33.2.2] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 106 ("stem corrected to Chaetodont- by Latreille 1825:129").
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): 106. [inferred]

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Chaetodontinae (Subfamily) Rafinesque, 1815 Ref: R. van der Laan et al. (eds.), 2021: (14 Mar 2025).
Type: Chaetodon (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 379; [<18 Feb 2024]. [inferred]

Variants

Former rank: Chaetodontinae (Subfamily) Rafinesque, 1815

Synonyms

Including: Pomacanthidae (Family) Jordan & Evermann, 1898 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 609.

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: vlindervissen
: borsteltandigen
: klipvissen

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: butterflyfishes Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 454; ECoF(14 Mar 2025).
: butterflyfishes Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2481.
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