Cepola Linnaeus [C.] 1764:63 Fem. Ophidion macrophthalmum Linnaeus 1758. Type by monotypy. Spelled Cepolus by Duméril 1806:303 [ref. 1151]. Wrongly dated to 1766 in the Catalog of Fishes (1998). Cepola van Ihering 1909 in snails is a junior homonym •Valid as Cepola Linnaeus 1764 -- (Monod 1973:368 [ref. 7193], Araga in Masuda et al. 1984:201 [ref. 6441], Tortonese in Whitehead et al. 1986:810 [ref. 13676], Gomon et al. 1994:657 [ref. 22532], Smith-Vaniz 2001:3332 [ref. 26130], Hoese 2006:1361 [ref. 28988], Smith-Vaniz 2008:633 [ref. 30654], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:51 [ref. 36649], Stewart 2015:1364 [ref. 34196], Motomura et al. 2017:172 [ref. 35490]). Current status: Valid as Cepola Linnaeus 1764. Cepolidae: Cepolinae.