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Taxon: Family Blenniidae Rafinesque, 1810 - combtooth blennies (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  Rafinesque, 1810, orth. corr.
Original name & rank:  Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 9 ("Ordine. I Blennidi."). [family, nom. vernac.]. ≡
Latinized name:  Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse: 82 ("Famille. Blennidia."). ≡
Subsequent spelling: 
Source for the authorship:  van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 120 ("Rafinesque 1810").

Attributes

Justified emendation (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Art. 33.2.2] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 120 ("stem Blenni-").
Available family-group name, later latinized [ICZN, 1999: Art. 11.7.2 (<1900)] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 120 ("Article 11.7.2").
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): 120. [inferred]

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Blenniinae (Subfamily) Rafinesque, 1810 Ref: R. van der Laan et al. (eds.), 2021: (4 Feb 2025). [inferred]
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Blenniini (Tribe) Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 413. [inferred]
Type: Blennius (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 413; 26 Feb 2024. [inferred]

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: naakte slijmvissen

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: combtooth blennies Ref: I.V. Volvenko et al., 2020: 8; ECoF(4 Feb 2025).
: rockskippers Ref: I.V. Volvenko et al., 2020: 8.
: combtooth blennies Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 348.
: blennies Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2487.

Vernacular Names (Russian)

Full name: Собачковые [Sobachkovye] Ref: I.V. Volvenko et al., 2020: 8.
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