Strongylura van Hasselt [J. C.] 1824:374 Fem. Strongylura caudimaculata van Hasselt 1824. Type by monotypy. Strongylura has not been demonstrated to be monophyletic (Boughton et al. 1991 [ref. 26766] and Lovejoy 2000 [ref. 26767]). •Valid as Strongylura van Hasselt 1824 -- (Parin 1967:22 [ref. 10272], Collette & Parin 1970:10 [ref. 7415], Parin & Astakhov 1982:279 [ref. 26258], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:78 [ref. 6441], Collette et al. 1984:336 [ref. 11422], Paxton et al. 1989:342 [ref. 12442], Kottelat 1989:16 [ref. 13605], Allen 1991:73 [ref. 21090], Paugy in Lévêque et al. 1992:583 [ref. 21590], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:201 [ref. 24550], Collette 1999:2152 [ref. 24785], Lovejoy & Collette 2001:327 [ref. 25232], Collette 2003:1105 [ref. 26981], Lovejoy & Collette in Reis et al. 2003:587 [ref. 27061], Collette 2003:5 [ref. 27306], Banford et al. 2004:834 [ref. 27645], Paxton et al. 2006:717 [ref. 28995], Scharpf 2007:10 [ref. 30398], Gomon 2008:408 [ref. 30616], Coad 2010:241 [ref. 36620], Morgan 2011:12 [ref. 31262], Kottlelat 2013:298 [ref. 32989] with author as Broié in van Hasselt, Parin et al. 2014:197 [ref. 33547], Zhang et al. 2016:192 [ref. 34477], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:55 [ref. 35138], Motomura et al. 2017:66 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:106 [ref. 35805], Fricke et al. 2019:80 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Strongylura van Hasselt 1824. Belonidae.