Yoldinae was named by Dall (1908) [HISTORY: Yoldiinae Glibert and van de Poel 1965, nom. nud. [Coan et al. 2000] HISTORY: Yoldiinae Glibert and van de Poel 1965, nom. nud. [Coan et al. 2000] HISTORY: Yoldiinae Glibert and van de Poel 1965, nom. nud. [Coan et al. 2000] see also Lintz 1958 [apparently also used as a nomen nudum]]. It is extant.

It was misspelled as Youldiinae by Anelli et al. (2006); it was corrected as Yoldiinae by Coan et al. (2000), Bouchet et al. (2010), Carter et al. (2011).

It was assigned to Nuculanidae by Lintz (1958); to Yoldiidae by Coan et al. (2000), Bouchet et al. (2010); and to Sareptidae by Anelli et al. (2006), Carter et al. (2011).