Dactylopterus Lacepède, 1801
Gender: ?; Hist. nat. Poissons, 3: 325
Type: D. pirapeda Lacepède (= Trigla volitans L.), by orig. design.
Synonyms
Cephalacanthus Lacepède, 1801. Gender: M; Hist. nat. Poissons, 3: 323 (type: C. spinarella = Gasterosteus spinarella L. (= Cephalacanthus juv.), by orig. design.)
Pungitius Linnaeus, 1764 (nec Coste, 1848).
Cephacandia Rafinesque, 1815, Analyse de la Nature: 85 (a substitute name for Cephalacanthus and having therefore the same type).
Dactyloptera Bonaparte, 1832, Icon. Faun. Ital., 3, Pesci, Introd.: (13)
Cephalacanthes (err. typ.) Griffith, 1834: 138.
Cephalocanthus (err. typ.) Griffith, 1835: xxxiv.
Cephalocanthes (err. typ.) Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fishes . . .,1838, 1: 80.
Cephalocanthus (err. typ.) Swainson, 1839, 2: 55, 179, 263.
Dactylophorus Swainson, 1839, 2: 55, 179, 262 (type: D. volitans Sw. = Trigla volitans L., by subs. design. of Whitley, 1929: 127) (nec Dactylophora De Vis, 1884 = Psilocranium Macleay, 1884).
Cephalacanthia L. Agassiz, 1846, Nomencl. Zool. Index universalis: 71 (a substitute name for Cephacandia Raf., 1815).
Gonocephalus Gronow, in Gray, 1854, Cat. Fishes . . .: 105-106 (type: G. macrocephalus Gronow (= Trigla volitans L.), by monotypy), nec Gonocephalus Kaup, 1825 (Reptilia).
Chephalacanthus (err. typ.) Metzelaar, 1919: 147, nec Cephalacanthus (Otto MS) Beyrich, 1848 (Pisces), nec Cephalacanthus Diesing, 1853 (Nematoda), nec Cephalacanthus Lapworth, 1890 (Trilobita).