Xiphias Linnaeus [C.] 1758:248 Masc. Xiphias gladius Linnaeus 1758. Type by monotypy. Xyphias, Ziphias, and Ziphius are misspellings or unjustified emendations. On Official List (Opinion 75). Spelled Xiphyas by Bonnaterre 1788:liii [ref. 4940]. •Valid as Xiphias Linnaeus 1758 -- (Tortonese 1973:482 [ref. 7192], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:304 [ref. 7348], Nakamura 1983:263 [ref. 5371], Collette et al. 1984:600 [ref. 11421], Nakamura in Masuda et al. 1984:224 [ref. 6441], Nakamura 1985:48 [ref. 20161], Nakamura in Whitehead et al. 1986:1006 [ref. 13676], Heemstra 1986:839 [ref. 5660], Gomon et al. 1994:829 [ref. 22532], Nakamura 2001:3760 [ref. 26306], Fierstine & Monsch 2002:145 [ref. 26597], Nakamura 2003:1858 [ref. 27116], Parin 2003:S26 [ref. 28536], Bray & Hoese 2006:1783 [ref. 29049], Gomon 2008:791 [ref. 30616], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:69 [ref. 36649], Parin et al. 2014:516 [ref. 33547], Roberts 2015:1647 [ref. 34193], Bañón et al. 2016:324 [ref. 34397], Fricke et al. 2018:365 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:172 [ref. 36273], Brown et al. 2019:169 [ref. 36444], Fricke et al. 2019:313 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Xiphias Linnaeus 1758. Xiphiidae.