Mordaciidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Petromyzontiformes
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Agnatha Superclassis: Cyclostomi Classis: Petromyzonti Ordo: Petromyzontiformes

Familia: Mordaciidae
Genus (1): Mordacia

Name

Mordaciidae Gill, 1893: 129

• Type genus: Mordacia Gray, 1851, by monotypy.
• Name in prevailing recent practice, Article 35.5, ICZN (1999).

Synonyms

• Caragolinae Gill, 1883: 524

Type genus: Caragola Gray, 1851, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Gill, T.N. 1883. Note on the petromyzontids. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 5(310): 521–525. DOI: 10.5479/si.00963801.5-310.521
• Gill, T.N. 1893. Families and subfamilies of fishes. Memoirs of the National Academy of Science 6(6): 127–138. BHL

Additional references

• Gill, H.S., Renaud, C.B., Chapleau, F., Mayden, R.L. & Potter, I.C. 2003. Phylogeny of living parasitic lampreys (Petromyzontiformes) based on morphological data. Copeia 2003(4): 687–703. DOI: 10.1643/IA02-085.1 Reference page. 
• Lang, N.J., Poe, K.J., Renaud, C.B., Gill, H.S., Potter, I.C., Freyhof, J., Naseka, A.M., Cochran, P., Pérex, H.E., Habit, E.M., Kuhajda, B.R., Neely, D.A., Reshetnikov, Y.S., Salnikov, V.B., Stoumboudi, M.Th. & Mayden, R.L. 2009. Novel Relationships among Lampreys (Petromyzontiformes) Revealed by a Taxonomically Comprehensive Molecular Data Set. American Fisheries Society Symposium Reference page. 
• Renaud, C.B. 2011. Lampreys of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of lamprey species known to date. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes 5: vi + 109. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Laan, R. van der, Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa 3882(1): 1–230. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 Reference page. 

Links

• Mordaciidae species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Mordaciidae in the World Register of Marine Species