Lepidion Swainson [W.] 1838:318 Neut. Gadus lepidion Risso 1810. Type by monotypy. Also in Swainson 1839:188, 300 [ref. 4303]. Risso's lepidion renamed rissoii (p. 319) and rubescens (1839:300) by Swainson. Haloporphyrus Günther 1862 is an unneeded replacement. •Valid as Lepidion Swainson 1838 -- (Cohen 1973:324 [ref. 6589], Paulin 1983:106 [ref. 5459], Fahay & Markle 1984:266 [ref. 13653], Okamura in Masuda et al. 1984:90 [ref. 6441], Cohen in Whitehead et al. 1986:719 [ref. 13676], Cohen 1986:327 [ref. 5646], Paxton et al. 1989:300 [ref. 12442], Chiu et al. 1990:186 [ref. 21687], Cohen in Cohen et al. 1990:363 [ref. 18936], Paulin & Roberts 1997:27 [ref. 23231], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:280 [ref. 25968], Paxton et al. 2006:611 [ref. 28995], Gomon 2008:307 [ref. 30616], Bañón et al. 2010:602 [ref. 30872], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:28 [ref. 36649], Arronte et al. 2011:1708 [ref. 31611], Bañón et al. 2012:1 [ref. 32386], Parin et al. 2014:170 [ref. 33547], Struthers et al. 2015:853 [ref. 34267], Bañón et al. 2016:315 [ref. 34397], Barros-García et al. 2016:6 [ref. 34527], Fricke et al. 2018:81 [ref. 35805], Fricke et al. 2019:70 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Lepidion Swainson 1838. Moridae.