Muraenesox McClelland [J.] 1843:408 Masc. Muraenesox tricuspidata McClelland 1843. Type by subsequent designation. Muraenosix tricuspidata given as type by Jordan 1919:220 [ref. 2410]. Also in McClelland 1844:210 [ref. 2928]. •Valid as Muraenesox McClelland 1843 -- (Castle & Williamson 1975 [ref. 7115], Asano in Masuda et al. 1984:29 [ref. 6441], Bauchot & Saldanha in Whitehead et al. 1986:560 [ref. 13676], Castle 1986:188 [ref. 5644], Paxton et al. 1989:145 [ref. 12442], Smith 1989:436 [ref. 13285], Ataur Rahman 1989:46 [ref. 24860], Smith 1999:1673 [ref. 24661], Ataur Rahman 2003:61 [ref. 31338], Paxton et al. 2006:282 [ref. 28995], Fricke et al. 2009:21 [ref. 30213], Zhang et al. 2010:290 [ref. 31511], Kottelat 2013:48 [ref. 32989], Parin et al. 2014:49 [ref. 33547], Motomura et al. 2017:38 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:48 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:24 [ref. 36273]). Current status: Valid as Muraenesox McClelland 1843. Muraenesocidae.