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Taxon: Family Cepolidae Rafinesque, 1815 - bandfishes (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  (Rafinesque, 1815)
Unavailable original name & rank:  Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 31 ("Ordine. I Cepolidi."). [family, nom. vernac.; published not in latinized form before 1900; not available, Article 11.7.2]. ≡
Original name:  Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse: 84 ("S. F. Cepolidia."). ≡
Subsequent rank: 
Source for the authorship:  van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 108 ("Rafinesque 1815").

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Cepolinae (Subfamily) Rafinesque, 1815 Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 387. [inferred]
Type: Cepola (Genus) Linnaeus, 1764 Ref: P. Bouchet & J.-P. Rocroi, 2005: 46 ("Linné, 1766").

Homonyms

Junior homonym: Cepolidae (Family) Ihering, 1909, nom. illeg. Ref: P. Bouchet & J.-P. Rocroi, 2005: 46. [implicit]
Junior homonym: Cepolinae (Subfamily) Ihering, 1909, nom. illeg. Ref: P. Bouchet & J.-P. Rocroi, 2005: 46.

Synonyms

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

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: bandfishes Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 461; ECoF(14 Mar 2025).
: bandfishes Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2482.
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