Talk:Saccopharyngiforms

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this is not enough info —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.218.112.135 (talk • contribs) 02:01, 11 May 2006 (UTC-7)

true...but there is little that scientists know about deep water fish. TotallyTempo 00:20, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An older synonym

In previous times many orders and suborders of teleost fishes had names that were not based on a type genus. Someone has disputed my mention of such names. Why try to erase history? These names are used in older works, including dictionaries.

Often a name is tribute to a prominent characteristic. In this case the name Lyomeri comes from Greek words meaning loose parts. These creatures are fragile at sea level atmospheric pressure.

Leonard Peter Schultz in his book 'The Ways of Fishes' (1948) lists the Saccopharyngidae, Eurypharyngidae, and Monognathidae as its families. This is a pretty stable group. Only a fourth family is in doubt. Scott Tillinghast, Houston TX (talk) 22:44, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for adding interesting information. Please note the general practices in wikipedia taxon articles, however. Alternative names are not to be mentioned in the lead sentence, and particularly not obsolete ones. Instead, the synonymic names should be listed in the taxobox [ | synonyms = ... ], but with the proper taxonomic authority and with a reference that has stated the synonymy. -- Olaff (talk) 20:06, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]