Esox Linnaeus [C.] 1758:313 Masc. Esox lucius Linnaeus 1758. Type by subsequent designation. Exos Nardo 1847:col. 127 [ref. 17994] is regarded as a misspelling. Spelled Esok by Ascanius 1767:37 [ref. 30153]. Type designated by Jordan & Gilbert 1883:352 [ref. 2476]. On Official List (Opinion 92, Direction 56). •Valid as Esox Linnaeus 1758 -- (Crossman 1978:15 [ref. 6974], Martin 1984:140 [ref. 13639], Jenkins & Burkhead 1994:231 [ref. 21581], Ráb & Crossman 1994:1951 [ref. 22739], Bogutskaya & Naseka 1996:14 [ref. 22798], Popova 1998:52 [ref. 23588], López et al. 2000:429 [ref. 24455], Sideleva 2001:47 [ref. 26181], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:143 [ref. 25968], Sideleva 2003:12 [ref. 27815], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:124 [ref. 28183], Grande et al. 2004:743 [ref. 28936] with subgenera, Scharpf 2006:21 [ref. 30386], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:342 [ref. 29996], Minckley & Marsh 2009:101 [ref. 31114], Lucentini et al. 2011:1 [ref. 31658], Bianco & Delmastro 2011:7 [ref. 31648], Denys et al. 2014:xx [ref. 33448], Parin et al. 2014:142 [ref. 33547], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:891 [ref. 34062], Zhang et al. 2016:190 [ref. 34477], Dyldin & Orlov 2016:672 [ref. 34853], Esmaeili et al. 2017:78 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:58 [ref. 36089], Fricke et al. 2018:64 [ref. 35805]). Current status: Valid as Esox Linnaeus 1758. Esocidae: Esocinae.