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Sphyraenidae (barracuda)
Taxonomy
Sphyraenidae is a family. It is extant.
It was assigned to Acanthopteri by Leidy (1873); to Teleostomi by Weiler (1938); to Percomorphi by Rapp (1946); to Percesoces by Hay (1902) and Jordan (1963); to Mugiloidea by Casier (1966); to Mugiloidei by Thurmond and Jones (1981); to Scombroidei by Fierstine et al. (2012); to Carangimorphariae by Betancur et al. (2013); to Sphyraenoidei by Bannikov (2014); to Perciformes by Weems (1999), Purdy et al. (2001), Szabo et al. (2017) and Carnevale and Godfrey (2018); and to Istiophoriformes by Nelson et al. (2016), Ebersole et al. (2019) and Cicimurri et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Acanthopteri by Leidy (1873); to Teleostomi by Weiler (1938); to Percomorphi by Rapp (1946); to Percesoces by Hay (1902) and Jordan (1963); to Mugiloidea by Casier (1966); to Mugiloidei by Thurmond and Jones (1981); to Scombroidei by Fierstine et al. (2012); to Carangimorphariae by Betancur et al. (2013); to Sphyraenoidei by Bannikov (2014); to Perciformes by Weems (1999), Purdy et al. (2001), Szabo et al. (2017) and Carnevale and Godfrey (2018); and to Istiophoriformes by Nelson et al. (2016), Ebersole et al. (2019) and Cicimurri et al. (2022).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1873 | Sphyraenidae Leidy p. 288 |
| 1902 | Sphyraenidae Hay p. 399 |
| 1938 | Sphyraenidae Weiler p. 24 |
| 1946 | Sphyraenidae Rapp p. 512 |
| 1963 | Sphyraenidae Jordan p. 678 |
| 1966 | Sphyraenidae Casier p. 243 |
| 1981 | Sphyraenidae Thurmond and Jones p. 102 |
| 1999 | Sphyraenidae Weems p. 64 |
| 2001 | Sphyraenidae Purdy et al. p. 179 |
| 2012 | Sphyraenidae Fierstine et al. p. 144 |
| 2013 | Sphyraenidae Betancur et al. |
| 2014 | Sphyraenidae Bannikov p. 29 |
| 2016 | Sphyraenidae Nelson et al. p. 388 |
| 2017 | Sphyraenidae Szabo et al. |
| 2018 | Sphyraenidae Carnevale and Godfrey p. 190 |
| 2019 | Sphyraenidae Ebersole et al. p. 166 |
| 2022 | Sphyraenidae Cicimurri et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. Sphyraenidae [barracuda]
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G. Sphyraena Artedi 1793 [barracuda]
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†Sphyraena amici Agassiz 1843
Sphyraena argentea Girard 1854
Sphyraena barracuda Edwards 1771
†Sphyraena bognorensis Casier 1966
†Sphyraena crassidens de Beaufort 1926
†Sphyraena croatica Gorjanović-Kramberger 1882
†Sphyraena cunhai Silva-Santos and Travassos 1960
†Sphyraena egleri Silva-Santos and Travassos 1960
†Sphyraena fajumensis Dames 1883
†Sphyraena hansfuchsi Schubert 1906
†Sphyraena intermedia Bassani 1889
†Sphyraena kugleri Casier 1966
†Sphyraena longimana Arambourg 1966
†Sphyraena lugardi White 1926
†Sphyraena major Leidy 1855
†Sphyraena malembeensis Dartevelle and Casier 1943
†Sphyraena muelleri Schwarzhans 1994
Sphyraena novaehollandiae Günther 1900
†Sphyraena pannonica Weiler 1938
†Sphyraena senni Casier 1966
†Sphyraena sternbergensis Winkler 1975
†Sphyraena striata Casier 1946
†Sphyraena substriata Münster 1846
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Invalid names: Saurocephalus inequalis Münster 1846 [synonym], Sphyraena olisiponensis Jonet 1966 [synonym]
†Sphyraena suessi Gorjanović-Kramberger 1882
†Sphyraena tyrolensis von Meyer 1863
†Sphyraena viannai Dartevelle and Casier 1949
†Sphyraena viennensis Steindachner 1859
†Sphyraena weberi Leriche 1954
†Sphyraena winkleri Lawley 1876
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available