Bregmaceros Thompson [W.] (ex Cantor) 1840:185 Masc. Bregmaceros mcclellandi Thompson 1840. Type by monotypy. Bregmocerus Agassiz 1846:53 [ref. 64] is an unjustified emendation. Species spelled originally as mcclellandi and mcclellandii; first reviser not yet found. •Valid as Bregmaceros Thompson 1840 -- (D'Ancona & Cavinato 1965 [ref. 9208], Cohen 1973:321 [ref. 6589], Houde 1984 [ref. 13654], Milliken & Houde 1984 [ref. 8132], Cohen 1984:263 [ref. 13646], Okamura in Masuda et al. 1984:92 [ref. 6441], Fahay & Markle 1984:266 [ref. 13653], Cohen in Whitehead et al. 1986:711 [ref. 13676], Masuda et al. 1986 [ref. 5801], Smith 1986:329 [ref. 5712], Paxton et al. 1989:305 [ref. 12442], Cohen in Cohen et al. 1990:17 [ref. 18936], Shen & Wang 1991 [ref. 19309], Mamhot et al. 1992 [ref. 20432], Iwamoto 1999:1997 [ref. 24761], Torii et al. 2003:129 [ref. 26917], Torri et al. 2003:23 [ref. 27810], Harold & Johnson 2003:1004 [ref. 27012], Torii et al. 2004:109 [ref. 27809], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:205 [ref. 28944], Paxton et al. 2006:621 [ref. 28996], Melo et al. 2010:29 [ref. 30775], Shinohara et al. 2011:41 [ref. 31715], Kottelat 2013:271 [ref. 32989], Struthers 2015:744 [ref. 34261], Harold & Golani 2016:1 [ref. 34758], Motomura et al. 2017:54 [ref. 35490], Robertson et al. 2017:52 [ref. 35676], Fricke et al. 2018:80 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:38 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:69 [ref. 36673], Ho et al. 2020:565 [ref. 37555], Ho et al. 2020:559 [ref. 37586], Harold & Baltzegar 2023:266 [ref. 40532]). Current status: Valid as Bregmaceros Thompson 1840. Bregmacerotidae.