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Taxon: Family Xiphiidae Rafinesque, 1815 - swordfishes (fish)

Entity:

Authorship

SN2000 author citation	:			(C.S. Rafinesque, 1815)
Unavailable original name & rank	:			Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 39 ("Ordine. I Zifidi."). [family, nom. vernac.; published not in latinized form before 1900; not available, Article 11.7.2]. ≡
Original name	:			Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse: 91 ("S. F. Xyphidia."). ≡
Subsequent rank	:
Source for the authorship	:			van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 127 ("Rafinesque 1815").

Types

Type

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Xiphias (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758

Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 434. [implicit]

Synonyms

Including

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†Xiphiorhynchidae (Family) Regan, 1909

Ref: R. van der Laan, 2018: 77.

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name

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zwaardvissen

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name	:	swordfishes	Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 389; ECoF(4 Feb 2025).
	:	swordfishes	Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2491.

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