Tetrapturus Rafinesque [C. S.] 1810:54 Masc. Tetrapturus belone Rafinesque 1810. Type by monotypy. Tetrapterus, Tetrapterurus, Tetraplurus and Tetraperus are misspellings or unjustified emendations (see de Sylva 1973:479-480 [ref. 7210]). •Valid as Tetrapturus Rafinesque 1810 -- (de Sylva 1973:479 [ref. 7210], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:296 [ref. 7348], Nakamura 1983:294 [ref. 5371], Collette et al. 1984:600 [ref. 11421], Nakamura in Masuda et al. 1984:223 [ref. 6441], Nakamura 1985:35 [ref. 20161], Nakamura in Whitehead et al. 1986:1003 [ref. 13676], Heemstra 1986:840 [ref. 5660], Gomon et al. 1994:831 [ref. 22532] as Tetrtapterus, Nakamura 2001:3760 [ref. 26306], Fierstine & Monsch 2002:148 [ref. 26597], Nakamura 2003:1861 [ref. 27116], Parin 2003:S27 [ref. 28536], Collette et al. 2006:464 [ref. 28911], Bray et al. 2006:1781 [ref. 29091], Gomon 2008:793 [ref. 30616] as Tetrapterus, Lipej & Dulčić 2010:69 [ref. 36649], Roberts 2015:1645 [ref. 34193], Fricke et al. 2018:365 [ref. 35805], Brown et al. 2019:170 [ref. 36444]). Current status: Valid as Tetrapturus Rafinesque 1810. Istiophoridae.