Echeneis Linnaeus [C.] 1758:260 Fem. Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus 1758. Type designated bythe ICZN under plenary powers (emendation of neucrates). On Official List (Opinions 92 and 242). Also appeared as new in Billberg 1833:53 [ref. 34146] with reference to Aristoteles; see Kullander 2016:111 [ref. 34147]. •Valid as Echeneis Linnaeus 1758 -- (Lachner 1973:637 [ref. 7221], Okamura in Masuda et al. 1984:222 [ref. 6441], Heemstra 1986:662 [ref. 5660], Lachner in Whitehead et al. 1986:1330 [ref. 13677], Paxton et al. 1989:571 [ref. 12442], Gomon et al. 1994:578 [ref. 22532], Lindberg et al. 1997:20 [ref. 23547], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:272 [ref. 24550], Collette 1999:2653 [ref. 24785], O'Toole 2002:616 [ref. 26411], Collette 2003:1415 [ref. 27087], Parin 2003:S5 [ref. 28536], Paxton et al. 2006:1136 [ref. 28994], Gomon 2008:573 [ref. 30616], Motomura 2009:114 [ref. 30446], Gray et al. 2009:184 [ref. 31117], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:43 [ref. 36649], Parin et al. 2014:359 [ref. 33547], Trnski 2015:1238 [ref. 34198], Motomura et al. 2017:102 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:178 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:81 [ref. 36273], Brown et al. 2019:166 [ref. 36444], Fricke et al. 2019:143 [ref. 36673], Parenti 2021:566 [ref. 38651]). Current status: Valid as Echeneis Linnaeus 1758. Echeneidae.