WoRMS

WoRMS taxon details

Aracanidae Hollard, 1860

AphiaID

267041 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267041)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Tetraodontiformes

Synonymised names

Aracaninae · unaccepted

Direct children (10)

Ordering

Alphabetically
By status

Children Display

direct main ranks all

Genus Anoplocapros Kaup, 1855
Genus Aracana Gray, 1838
Genus Caprichthys McCulloch & Waite, 1915
Genus Capropygia Kaup, 1855
Genus Kentrocapros Kaup, 1855
Genus Polyplacapros Fujii & Uyeno, 1979
Genus Acarana Gray, 1833 accepted as Aracana Gray, 1838
Genus Acerana Kaup, 1855 accepted as Aracana Gray, 1838
Genus Aracanostracion Smith, 1949 accepted as Kentrocapros Kaup, 1855
Genus Strophiurichthys Fraser-Brunner, 1935 accepted as Anoplocapros Kaup, 1855

Environment

marine, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Aracanidae Hollard, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267041 on 2025-07-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-11 06:43:30Z

created

Decock, Wim

2015-04-17 08:48:21Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

[taxonomic tree] [list species]

Nomenclature

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 [details] Available for editors