Ammodytes Linnaeus [C.] 1758:247 Masc. Ammodytes tobianus Linnaeus 1758. Type by monotypy. Name spelled Ammodites by Wulff 1765:20 [ref. 17844]. Spelled Amodytes by Ascanius 1767:21 [ref. 30153]. Spelled Ammodites by Bonnaterre 1788:39 [ref. 4940]. On Official List (Opinion 75). •Valid as Ammodytes Linnaeus 1758 -- (Wheeler 1973:446 [ref. 7190], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:197 [ref. 7348], Stevens et al. 1984:574 [ref. 13671], Ida in Masuda et al. 1984:222 [ref. 6441], Reay in Whitehead et al. 1986:946 [ref. 13676], Winters & Dalley 1988 [ref. 12881], Nizinski et al. 1990 [ref. 16687], Ida et al. 1994:258 [ref. 22075], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:795 [ref. 25968], Parin 2003:S20 [ref. 28536], Randall & Earle 2008:603 [ref. 29779], Randall & Heemstra 2009:21 [ref. 30095], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:30 [ref. 36649], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:131 [ref. 31212], Parin et al. 2014:464 [ref. 33547], Turanov & Kartavtsev 2014:447 [ref. 34455], Orr et al. 2015:138 [ref. 33719], Mecklenburg et al. 2016:222 [ref. 34440], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:187 [ref. 35257]). Current status: Valid as Ammodytes Linnaeus 1758. Ammodytidae.