original description
Bronn, H. G. (1862). Die Klassen und Ordnungen der Weichthiere (Malacozoa), wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Dritten Bandes erste Abtheilung. Kopflose Weichthiere (Malacozoa Acephala) Weichthiere. 518 pp., 44 pls. Wintersche Verlagshandlung: Leipzig und Heidelberg., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13385404
page(s): Bd. 3, Abt. 2: 645 [details]
basis of record
Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. <em>Malacologia.</em> 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25127200
page(s): 91, 146 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Status Established implicitly, but not explicitly as a substitute name for Cymodoceidae. Invalid because its type genus is a junior homonym. Pterocymodocea is a nom. nov. pro Cymodocea d'Orbigny, 1834; Art. 40.2.1 does not apply. See also Hydromylidae and
Halopsychidae. [details]