Family Gymnuridae Fowler 1934 Name in prevailing recent practice, Article 35.5 and Article 40.2 Pteroplateinae Gill 1873:790 [ref. 17631] (subfamily) Pteroplatea Gymnurinae Fowler 1934a:241 [ref. 1416] (subfamily) Gymnura [not preoccupied by (invalid) Gymnurinae Gill 1872 in mammals, that name being based on the not valid mammalian genus Gymnura Lesson 1827; family-group name used as valid by: Lindberg 1971 [ref. 27211], Stehmann 1974 [ref. 21659], Nelson 1976 [ref. 32838], Shiino 1976, Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Whitehead et al. (1984) [ref. 13675], Paxton et al. 1989 [ref. 12442], McEachran & Séret 1990 [ref. 19318], Allen & Robertson 1994 [ref. 22193], Last & Stevens 1994 [ref. 23873], Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Eschmeyer 1998 [ref. 23416], Compagno 1999 [ref. 25589], Chu & Meng 2001, Menezes et al. 2003 [ref. 27192], Nelson et al. 2004 [ref. 27807], Hoese et al. 2006, Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486], Jacobsen & Bennett 2009 [ref. 30470], Last & Stevens 2009]

Published as part of Laan, Richard Van Der, Eschmeyer, William N. & Fricke, Ronald, 2014, Family-group names of Recent fishes, pp. 1-230 in Zootaxa 3882 (2) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7047777