Emmelichthys Richardson [J.] 1845:47 Masc. Emmelichthys nitidus Richardson 1845. Type by monotypy. •Valid as Emmelichthys Richardson 1845 -- (Heemstra & Randall 1977:378 [ref. 7057], Scott 1983:194 [ref. 5346], Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984:161 [ref. 6441], Nakamura in Nakamura et al. 1986:216 [ref. 14235], Heemstra 1986:637 [ref. 5660], Oyarzún G. & Arriaza Z. 1993:342 [ref. 22360], Gomon et al. 1994:596 [ref. 22532], Yoshino & Kon 2000:63 [ref. 24912], Carpenter 2001:2839 [ref. 26098], Heemstra 2003:1476 [ref. 27090], Allen 2006:1190 [ref. 29089], Gomon 2008:585 [ref. 30616], Shinohara et al. 2011:49 [ref. 31715], Hagiwara & Okabe 2012:29 [ref. 32089], Fricke et al. 2014:83 [ref. 33406], Trnski 2015:1276 [ref. 34198], Motomura et al. 2017:128 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:192 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:89 [ref. 36273], Brown et al. 2019:180 [ref. 36444], Girard et al. 2024:95 [ref. 40952]). Current status: Valid as Emmelichthys Richardson 1845. Emmelichthyidae.