Symphysanodon Bleeker [P.] 1877:3 Masc. Symphysanodon typus Bleeker 1877. Type by monotypy (also by use of typus). Described in more detail in Bleeker 1878:60 [ref. 456]. Also appeared as new in Bleeker 1880:28 [ref. 461]. Misspelled Symphisanodon in Zoological Record for 1880. Placed in its own family Symphysanodontidae apparently first by Fourmanoir 1981 [ref. 8484]. •Valid as Symphysanodon Bleeker 1877 (often seen as 1878) -- (Katayama 1968 [ref. 7141], Anderson 1970 [ref. 7662], Johnson 1980:68 [ref. 13553], Katayama in Masuda et al. 1984:138 [ref. 6441], Lee 1989 [ref. 14122], Anderson 1999:2439 [ref. 24814], Anderson 2003:1305 [ref. 27059], Anderson & Springer 2005:2 [ref. 28238], Khalaf & Krupp 2008:85 [ref. 29663], Quéro et al. 2009:73 [ref. 30244], Campos et al. 2009:63 [ref. 30533], Anderson & Bineesh 2011:31 [ref. 31423], Anderson et al. 2011:1 [ref. 31513], Anderson et al. 2015:475 [ref. 33979], Motomura et al. 2017:93 [ref. 35490], Golani & Fricke 2018:67 [ref. 36273], Brown et al. 2019:175 [ref. 36444]). Current status: Valid as Symphysanodon Bleeker 1877. Symphysanodontidae.