Genera that contain: Esox [ 26 ] records

Agrioposphyraena (subgenus of Sphyraena) Fowler [H. W.] 1903:749 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 55; ref. 1361] Fem. Esox barracuda Walbaum 1792. Type by original designation (also monotypic). Misspelled Agriosphyraena by Jordan 1920:502 [ref. 4905]. •Synonym of Sphyraena Artedi in Röse 1793 [author as Klein 1778] -- (de Sylva 1975:76 [ref. 6302], Daget 1986:350 [ref. 6203]). •Synonym of Sphyraena Artedi 1793, but a valid subgenus Agrioposphyraena as described -- (de Sylva 1984:534 [ref. 13666]). •Synonym of Sphyraena Artedi 1793 -- (Kottelat 2013:444 [ref. 32989] but dated to Walbaum 1792, Ballen 2019:402 [ref. 37027]). Current status: Synonym of Sphyraena Artedi 1793. Sphyraenidae.

Albula Scopoli [J. A.] (ex Gronow) 1777:450 [Introductio ad historiam naturalem; ref. 3990] Fem. Esox vulpes Linnaeus 1758. Early nomenclatural history confused; this authorship the valid one for the bonefish genus (see Whitehead 1986 [ref. 5733]). Kottelat (2013:36) declared this as a nomen protectum. •Valid as Albula Scopoli 1777 -- (Rivas & Warlen 1967:251 [ref. 23666], Uyeno in Masuda et al. 1984:21 [ref. 6441], Smith 1986:157 [ref. 5712], Paxton et al. 1989:106 [ref. 12442], Smith 1989:970 [ref. 13285], Randall & Bauchot 1999:79 [ref. 23836], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:92 [ref. 24550], Smith & Randall 1999:1623 [ref. 24662], Colborn et al. 2001:807 [ref. 25230], Smith 2003:684 [ref. 26989], Pfeiler et al. 2006:778 [ref. 28922], Paxton et al. 2006:227 [ref. 28995], Hidaka et al. 2008:56 [ref. 29526], Pfeiler 2008:839 [ref. 29805], Pfeiler et al. 2008:763 [ref. 29949], Iwatsuki 2009:16 [ref. 30433], Valdez-Moreno 2010:667 [ref. 31032], Kwun & Kim 2011:57 [ref. 31334], Pfeiler et al. 2011:1 [ref. 31589], Kottelat 2013:34 [ref. 32989], Angulo et al. 2013:989 [ref. 33194], Wallace & Tringali 2016:1 [ref. 34691], Fricke et al. 2018:29 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:19 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:49 [ref. 36673], Matsunuma et al. 2022:263 [ref. 39583]). Current status: Valid as Albula Scopoli 1777. Albulidae: Albulinae.

Aplocheilus (subgenus of Poecilia) McClelland [J.] 1838:944 [Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal v. 7 (for Nov. 1838); ref. 2924] Masc. Aplocheilus chrysostigmus McClelland 1839. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Bleeker 1864:140 [ref. 4859]. Genus originally spelled Paecilia. Haplochilus Agassiz 1846:29, 172 [ref. 64] is an unjustified emendation. Predated by Odontopsis van Hasselt 1823; see Roberts 1993:33 [ref. 21799]. Declared a nomen protectum by Kottelat 2013:299 [ref. 32989]. First appeared without species; species added by McClelland 1839:301 [ref. 2923]. Spelled Aplochelus by McClelland 1839:261 [ref. 2923]. •Valid as Aplocheilus McClelland 1838 (often dated 1839) -- (Radda 1974:1 [ref. 30318], Jayaram 1981:294 [ref. 6497], Parenti 1981:471 [ref. 7066] with type as Esox panchax, Kottelat 1985:272 [ref. 11441], Kottelat 1989:16 [ref. 13605], Ataur Rahman 1989:62 [ref. 24860], Seegers 1997:7 [ref. 23895], Parenti 1999:2198 [ref. 24784], Lazara 2001:49 [ref. 25711], Ataur Rahman 2003:77 [ref. 31338], Huber 2005:14 [ref. 28394], Hertwig 2008:163 [ref. 29531], Shibukawa 2009:50 [ref. 30449], Kottelat 2013:299 [ref. 32989], Katwate et al. 2018:159 [ref. 35809]). Current status: Valid as Aplocheilus McClelland 1838. Aplocheilidae.

Belone Cuvier [G.] 1816:185 [Le Règne Animal; ref. 993] Fem. Esox belone Linnaeus 1761. Type by monotypy (also by absolute tautonymy). Spelled Belona by Lesueur 1821:124 [not researched]. On Official List (Opinion 225). Belone Oken 1816 suppressed; placed on Official Index (Opinion 225). •Valid as Belone Cuvier 1816 -- (Mees 1962:11 [ref. 13277], Collette & Parin 1970:10 [ref. 7415], Parin & Astakhov 1982:279 [ref. 26258], Collette et al. 1984:336 [ref. 11422], Collette & Parin in Whitehead et al. 1986:605 [ref. 13676], Collette 2003:2 [ref. 27306], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:34 [ref. 36649], Parin et al. 2014:196 [ref. 33547]). Current status: Valid as Belone Cuvier 1816. Belonidae.

Champsocephalus Gill [T. N.] 1861:509 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 13; ref. 1781] Masc. Chaenichthys esox Günther 1861. Type by monotypy. •Valid as Champsocephalus Gill 1861 -- (Stevens et al. 1984:563 [ref. 13633], Iwami 1985:57 [ref. 13368], Nakamura in Nakamura et al. 1986:260 [ref. 14235], Iwami & Kock 1990:384 [ref. 21699], Lloris & Rucabado 1991:130 [ref. 22530], Miller 1993:391 [ref. 21297], Eastman & Eakin 2000:17 [ref. 24631], Voskoboinikova 2000:328 [ref. 25153], Balushkin 2000:S98 [ref. 29555], Shandikov 2008:123 [ref. 30472], Sheiko 2019:53 [ref. 37173]). Current status: Valid as Champsocephalus Gill 1861. Channichthyidae.

Esox Linnaeus [C.] 1758:313 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Masc. Esox lucius Linnaeus 1758. Type by subsequent designation. Exos Nardo 1847:col. 127 [ref. 17994] is regarded as a misspelling. Spelled Esok by Ascanius 1767:37 [ref. 30153]. Type designated by Jordan & Gilbert 1883:352 [ref. 2476]. On Official List (Opinion 92, Direction 56). •Valid as Esox Linnaeus 1758 -- (Crossman 1978:15 [ref. 6974], Martin 1984:140 [ref. 13639], Jenkins & Burkhead 1994:231 [ref. 21581], Ráb & Crossman 1994:1951 [ref. 22739], Bogutskaya & Naseka 1996:14 [ref. 22798], Popova 1998:52 [ref. 23588], López et al. 2000:429 [ref. 24455], Sideleva 2001:47 [ref. 26181], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:143 [ref. 25968], Sideleva 2003:12 [ref. 27815], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:124 [ref. 28183], Grande et al. 2004:743 [ref. 28936] with subgenera, Scharpf 2006:21 [ref. 30386], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:342 [ref. 29996], Minckley & Marsh 2009:101 [ref. 31114], Lucentini et al. 2011:1 [ref. 31658], Bianco & Delmastro 2011:7 [ref. 31648], Denys et al. 2014:xx [ref. 33448], Parin et al. 2014:142 [ref. 33547], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:891 [ref. 34062], Zhang et al. 2016:190 [ref. 34477], Dyldin & Orlov 2016:672 [ref. 34853], Esmaeili et al. 2017:78 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:58 [ref. 36089], Fricke et al. 2018:64 [ref. 35805]). Current status: Valid as Esox Linnaeus 1758. Esocidae: Esocinae.

Farhians Whitley [G. P.] 1930:250 [Australian Zoologist v. 6 (pt 3); ref. 4670] Masc. Hemiramphus commersonii Cuvier 1829 (= Esox far Forsskål 1775). Type by original designation. Treated as masculine, Art. 30.2.4. •Synonym of Hemiramphus Cuvier 1816 -- (Parin 1973:268 [ref. 7191], Parin et al. 1980:111 [ref. 6895], Collette 2004:3 [ref. 27583], Kottelat 2013:290 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Hemiramphus Cuvier 1816. Hemiramphidae.

Galaxias Cuvier [G.] 1816:183 [Le Règne Animal; ref. 993] Masc. Esox truttaceus Cuvier 1816. Type by monotypy. Cuvier's species truttaceus essentially as name only in footnote, but tied to description in text and perhaps available; else type is G. fasciatus Gray 1842 by subsequent monotypy. •Valid as Galaxias Cuvier 1816 -- (McDowall 1970:352 [ref. 22863], McDowall 1971:37 [ref. 22864], McDowall & Frankenberg 1981:455 [ref. 5500], McDowall 1984:151 [ref. 11850], McDowall 1984:126 [ref. 6178], Paxton et al. 1989:175 [ref. 12442], Gomon et al. 1994:234 [ref. 22532], Dyer 2000:84 [ref. 26678], Waters et al. 2001:287 [ref. 25389], McDowall 2001:397 [ref. 25906], Berra in Reis et al. 2003:504 [ref. 27061], Paxton et al. 2006:403 [ref. 28995], Raadik 2008:217 [ref. 30624], Raadik 2014:22 [ref. 33606], McDowall & Stewart 2015:387 [ref. 34241], Campbell et al. 2022:[3] [ref. 39547]). Current status: Valid as Galaxias Cuvier 1816. Galaxiidae: Galaxiinae.

Hemiramphus Cuvier [G.] 1816:186 [Le Règne Animal; ref. 993] Masc. Esox brasiliensis Linnaeus 1758. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Gill 1863:273 [ref. 1693]. Originally Hemi-Ramphus (correction mandatory); sometimes spelled Hemirhamphus. •Valid as Hemiramphus Cuvier 1816 -- (Parin 1973:268 [ref. 7191], Parin et al. 1980:111 [ref. 6895], Parin & Astakhov 1982:289 [ref. 26258], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:79 [ref. 6441], Collette et al. 1984:336 [ref. 11422], Collette & Parin in Whitehead et al. 1986:621 [ref. 13676], Collette 1986:389 [ref. 5647], Paxton et al. 1989:337 [ref. 12442], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:208 [ref. 24550], Collette 1999:2182 [ref. 24785], Collette 2003:1136 [ref. 26981], Collette 2004:3 [ref. 27583], Tibbetts et al. 2007:812 [ref. 29438], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:34 [ref. 36649], Kottelat 2013:290 [ref. 32989], Motomura et al. 2017:64 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:104 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:41 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:78 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Hemiramphus Cuvier 1816. Hemiramphidae.

Hoplias Gill [T. N.] 1903:1016 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 26 (no. 1349); ref. 1786] Masc. Esox malabaricus Bloch 1794. Type by being a replacement name. Replacement for Macrodon Müller 1842, preoccupied by Macrodon Schinz 1822 in fishes. •Valid as Hoplias Gill 1903 -- (Géry 1977:102 [ref. 1597], Malabarba 1989:127 [ref. 14217], Taphorn 1992:447 [ref. 23654], Britski et al. 1999:83 [ref. 24147], Géry & Zarske 2002:43 [ref. 26555], Oyakawa in Reis et al. 2003:239 [ref. 27061], Mattox et al. 2006:517 [ref. 28800], Oyakawa & Mattox 2009:117 [ref. 30225], Blanco et al. 2010:361 [ref. 30964], Oliveira et al. 2011:11 [ref. 31685], Mattox et al. 2014:343 [ref. 33381], Sarmiento et al. 2014:186 [ref. 35004], Azpelicueta et al. 2015:71 [ref. 34030], Bertaco et al. 2016:415 [ref. 34561], Rosso et al. 2016:199 [ref. 34785], Rosso et al. 2018:235 [ref. 36203], Guimarães et al. 2021:1 [ref. 38947]). Current status: Valid as Hoplias Gill 1903. Erythrinidae.

Kenoza (subgenus of Lucius) Jordan [D. S.] & Evermann [B. W.] 1896:625, 626 [Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 47; ref. 2443] Fem. Esox americanus Gmelin 1789. Type by original designation (also monotypic). Type by use of name in parentheses; type designated as Esox lucius var. americanus. For purposes of the type species, the variety americanus is raised to species level; type not lucius. •Synonym of Esox Linnaeus 1758, but a valid subgenus Kenozoa as described -- (Crossman 1978:20 [ref. 6974], Grande et al. 2004:743 [ref. 28936]). Current status: Synonym of Esox Linnaeus 1758. Esocidae: Esocinae.

Kestratherina Pavlov [A.], Ivantsoff [W.], Last [P. R.] & Crowley [L. E. L. M.] 1988:387 [Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research v. 39 (no. 4); ref. 12285] Fem. Atherinichthys esox Klunzinger 1872. Type by original designation. •Valid as Kestratherina Pavlov, Ivantsoff, Last & Crowley 1988 -- (Dyer 1993:91 [ref. 40716], Gomon et al. 1994:379 [ref. 22532], Paxton et al. 2006:711 [ref. 28995], Raadik 2008:398 [ref. 30624], Ivantsoff & Allen 2011:50 [ref. 31135], Campanella et al. 2015:16 [ref. 33711]). Current status: Valid as Kestratherina Pavlov, Ivantsoff, Last & Crowley 1988. Atherinidae: Atherininae.

Leionura Whitley [G. P.] (ex Bleeker, ex Kuhl & van Hasselt) 1951:400 [Records of the Australian Museum v. 22 (no. 4); ref. 4715] Fem. Leionura esox Kuhl & van Hasselt 1859 (Leionura atun (Euphrasen 1791)). Type by original designation. Replacement name for Thyrsites Cuvier 1832. Made available by reference to Leionura Bleeker 1859, and establishing a type species. •Valid as Leionura Whitley 1951. Replacement Name. Current status: Valid as Leionura Whitley 1951. Gempylidae.

Lucius Garsault [F. A. P. de] 1764:Pl. 664 [Les figures des plantes et animaux d'usage en medicine Tome V. Animaux table; ref. 1570] Masc. Esox lucius Linnaeus 1758. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Jordan 1917:24 [ref. 2407]. Text in 1765 on p. 407. •Synonym of Esox Linnaeus 1758. Current status: Synonym of Esox Linnaeus 1758. Esocidae: Esocinae.

Lucius Rafinesque [C. S.] 1810:59 [Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della Sicilia; ref. 3594] Masc. Esox lucius Linnaeus 1758. Type by subsequent designation. Appeared without included species but clearly established for E. lucius. Earliest to technically add species or fix type species is unclear, dates at least to Jordan & Evermann 1896:625 [ref. 2443]. •In the synonymy of Esox Linnaeus 1758. Current status: Synonym of Esox Linnaeus 1758. Esocidae: Esocinae.

Macrodon Müller [J.] 1843:316 [Archiv für Naturgeschichte v. 9 (pt. 1); ref. 3063] Masc. Esox malabaricus Bloch 1794. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Eigenmann & Eigenmann 1889:102 [ref. 12497] as trahira Spix (not an included species but placed in synonymy of malabaricus). Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Macrodon Schinz 1822 in fishes, replaced by Hoplias Gill 1903. •Synonym of Hoplias Gill 1903 -- (Taphorn 1992:447 [ref. 23654], Oyakawa in Reis et al. 2003:239 [ref. 27061]). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Hoplias Gill 1903. Erythrinidae.

Mascalongus (subgenus of Esox) Jordan [D. S.] 1878:92 [Notes on fishes of Ohio; ref. 2380] Masc. Esox nobilior Thompson 1850. Type by original designation (also monotypic). •Synonym of Esox Linnaeus 1758. Current status: Synonym of Esox Linnaeus 1758. Esocidae: Esocinae.

Panchax Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1846:380 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 18; ref. 1011] Masc. Panchax buchanani Valenciennes 1846 (= Esox panchax Hamilton 1822). Type is panchax by absolute tautonymy of senior objective synonym, Valenciennes' Panchax buchanani is an unneeded replacement for Esox panchax. Not Panchax lineatum as designated by Bleeker 1864:140 [ref. 4859]. •Synonym of Aplocheilus McClelland 1838 -- (Parenti 1981:471 [ref. 7066], Lazara 2001:49 [ref. 25711], Kottelat 2013:299 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Aplocheilus Mcclelland 1838. Aplocheilidae.

Picorellus Rafinesque [C. S.] 1820:165 [Western Review and Miscellaneous Magazine: a monthly publ., devoted to literature and science, Lexington, KY v. 3 (no. 3); ref. 7306] Masc. Esox vittatus Rafinesque 1818. Also in Rafinesque 1820:70 (Dec.) [ref. 3592]. Based on a drawing in Rafinesque's notebook; apparently mythical (Jordan & Evermann 1896:625 [ref. 2443]). •Synonym of Esox Linnaeus 1758. Current status: Synonym of Esox Linnaeus 1758. Esocidae: Esocinae.

Psalidostomus Minding [J.] 1832:121 [Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte der Fische; ref. 3022] Masc. Esox osseus Linnaeus 1758. Misprinted on p. 121 as Palidostomus, corrected in corrigenda after p. 131. An objective synonym of Lepisosteus Lacepède 1803. •Synonym of Lepisosteus Lacepède 1803 -- (Grande 2010:27 [ref. 31167]). Current status: Synonym of Lepisosteus Lacepède 1803. Lepisosteidae.

Sphyraena Artedi [P.] in Röse 1793:112 [Petri Artedi Angermannia; ref. 3833] Fem. Esox sphyraena Linnaeus 1758. Type by subsequent designation or subsequent monotypy. Spelled Sphyrena by Rafinesque 1810:34 and Sphaerina by Swainson 1839:175 (242) [ref. 4303]. Apparently above is oldest available name for genus; authors also date to Bloch & Schneider 1801 or Klein; Walbaum (1792) is unavailable. •Valid as Sphyraena Artedi 1793 [some authors use Röse as author] -- (de Sylva 1975 [ref. 6302], de Sylva 1984:534 [ref. 13666], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:121 [ref. 6441], Ben-Tuvia in Whitehead et al. 1986:1194 [ref. 13677], de Sylva & Williams 1986:722 [ref. 6301], Daget 1986:35 [ref. 6203], Lin & Shao 1987 [ref. 6420], Johnson 1986:32 [ref. 5676], Daget in Lévêque et al. 1992:789 [ref. 21590], Gomon et al. 1994:664 [ref. 22532], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:459 [ref. 24550], Senou 2001:3686 [ref. 26303], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:803 [ref. 25968], Russell 2003:1808 [ref. 27114], Parin 2003:S25 [ref. 28536], Doiuchi & Nakabo 2005:132 [ref. 28229], Bray & Hoese 2006:1749 [ref. 29049] with authorship as Bloch & Schneider 1801, Béarez 2008:95 [ref. 30486], Pastore 2009:1299 [ref. 30405], Gomon 2008:774 [ref. 30616], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:68 [ref. 36649], Doiuchi 2011:99 [ref. 31623], Parin et al. 2014:507 [ref. 33547], Abdussamad et al. 2015:1 [ref. 33861], Trnski 2015:1600 [ref. 34198], Motomura et al. 2017:208 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:358 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:120 [ref. 36273], Ballen 2019:402 [ref. 37027], Fricke et al. 2019:306 [ref. 36673], Morishita & Motomura 2020:545 [ref. 37508]). Current status: Valid as Sphyraena Artedi 1793. Sphyraenidae.

Sphyraena Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:109 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Fem. Esox sphyraena Linnaeus 1758. Type by absolute tautonymy. •Objective synonym of Sphyraena Artedi 1793. •Synonym of Sphyraena Artedi 1793 -- (Kottelat 2013:444 [ref. 32989] but dated to Walbaum 1792). Current status: Synonym of Sphyraena Artedi 1793. Sphyraenidae.

Stomias Cuvier [G.] 1816:184 [Le Règne Animal; ref. 993] Masc. Esox boa Risso 1810. Type by monotypy. •Valid as Stomias Cuvier 1816 -- (Morrow 1964:291 [ref. 6967], Gibbs 1969 [ref. 14912], Morrow 1973:132 [ref. 7175], Gibbs in Whitehead et al. 1984:339 [ref. 13675], Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984:49 [ref. 6441], Fink 1985:11 [ref. 5171], Gibbs 1986:229 [ref. 5655], Fink & Fink 1986 [ref. 5176], Paxton et al. 1989:207 [ref. 12442], Gon 1990:130 [ref. 21680], Gomon et al. 1994:252 [ref. 22532], Harold 1999:1908 [ref. 24741], Harold 2003:906 [ref. 27001], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:259 [ref. 28944], Paxton et al. 2006:442 [ref. 28995], Kenaley et al. 2008:245 [ref. 30630], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:23 [ref. 36649], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:119 [ref. 31212], Kenaley & Stewart 2015:488 [ref. 34248], Bañón et al. 2016:309 [ref. 34397], Robertson et al. 2017:45 [ref. 35676], Fricke et al. 2018:68 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:33 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:62 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Stomias Cuvier 1816. Stomiidae: Stomiinae.

Synodus Scopoli [J. A.] (ex Gronow) 1777:449 [Introductio ad historiam naturalem; ref. 3990] Masc. Esox synodus Linnaeus 1758. Type by subsequent designation and absolute tautonymy. Described without species, first addition of species and subsequent designator not researched. •Valid as Synodus Scopoli 1777 -- (Anderson et al. 1966:46 [ref. 6977], Cressey 1981 [ref. 5574], Sulak in Whitehead et al. 1984:409 [ref. 13675], Okiyama 1984:207 [ref. 13644], Machida in Masuda et al. 1984:60 [ref. 6441], Cressey 1986:271 [ref. 6289], Waples & Randall 1989 [ref. 9187], Paxton et al. 1989:237 [ref. 12442] with authorship as Bloch & Schneider 1801, Heemstra in Smith & Heemstra 1995:271 [ref. 21953], Wiley et al. 1998:423 [ref. 25588], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:160 [ref. 24550], Russell 1999:1930 [ref. 24747], Sato & Nakabo 2002:44 [ref. 25953], Russell 2003:925 [ref. 27004], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:259 [ref. 28944], Hoese & Gates 2006:468 [ref. 28997] with authorship as Bloch & Schneider 1801, Chen et al. 2007:148 [ref. 29121], Prokofiev 2008:424 [ref. 29560], Randall & Pyle 2008:657 [ref. 29852], Kimura 2009:37 [ref. 30426], Randall 2009:402 [ref. 30454], Carvalho-Filho et al. 2010:33 [ref. 30983], Ho et al. 2010:64 [ref. 30761], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:24 [ref. 36649], Hubert et al. 2012:5 [ref. 31846], Frable et al. 2013:122 [ref. 32553], Birindelli 2014:534 [ref. 33501], Russell 2015:543 [ref. 34253], Pietsch & Orr 2015:24 [ref. 34694], Ho et al. 2016:134 [ref. 34725], Allen et al. 2017:59 [ref. 35278], Motomura et al. 2017:50 [ref. 35490], Robertson et al. 2017:49 [ref. 35676], Fricke et al. 2018:69 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:35 [ref. 36273], Brown et al. 2019:159 [ref. 36444], Fricke et al. 2019:63 [ref. 36673], Polanco F. & Acero P. 2021:130 [ref. 39983]). Current status: Valid as Synodus Scopoli 1777. Synodontidae: Synodontinae.

Synodus Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:396 (xlix) [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Masc. Esox synodus Linnaeus 1758. Type by absolute tautonymy. •Objective synonym of Synodus Scopoli 1777 -- (Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:160 [ref. 24550], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:260 [ref. 28944]). Current status: Synonym of Synodus Scopoli 1777. Synodontidae: Synodontinae.

Xenentodon Regan [C. T.] 1911:332 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 8) v. 7 (no. 40) (art. 36); ref. 3641] Masc. Esox cancila Hamilton 1822. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Jordan 1920:540 [ref. 4905]. Xenetodon has generally been considered to be monotypic, but Roberts 1989 [ref. 6439] presented evidence that there are at least two species, X. cancila and X. canciloides, in the genus. •Valid as Xenentodon Regan 1911 -- (Jayaram 1981:291 [ref. 6497], Collette et al. 1984:336 [ref. 11422], Kottelat 1989:16 [ref. 13605], Roberts 1989:152 [ref. 6439], see Kottelat 1998:109 [ref. 23436], Lovejoy & Collette 2001:327 [ref. 25232], Collette 2003:12 [ref. 27306], Ataur Rahman 2003:71 [ref. 31338], Kottelat 2013:298 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Valid as Xenentodon Regan 1911. Belonidae.