Combinations

• Petromyzonidae Bonaparte, 1831: 165, 189 [original spelling]

Primary references

• Bonaparte, C.L. 1831 Saggio di una distribuzione metodica degli animali vertebrati, (1831), Roma, 78 pp. Saggio d'una distribuzione .. vertebrati a sangue freddo, (1832), Roma, 86 pp. also in Giornale Arcadico di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, 52 (1831), 155–189. Saggio di una distribuzione metodica deglianimali vertebrati (1832), 89–123.

Additional references

• Gill, H.S., Renaud, C.B., Chapleau, F., Mayden, R.L. & Potter, I.C. 2003. Phylogeny of living parasitic lampreys (Petromyzontiformes) based on morphological data. Copeia 2003(4): 687–703. DOI: 10.1643/IA02-085.1 Reference page. 

• Lang, N.J., Poe, K.J., Renaud, C.B., Gill, H.S., Potter, I.C., Freyhof, J., Naseka, A.M., Cochran, P., Pérex, H.E., Habit, E.M., Kuhajda, B.R., Neely, D.A., Reshetnikov, Y.S., Salnikov, V.B., Stoumboudi, M.Th. & Mayden, R.L. 2009. Novel Relationships among Lampreys (Petromyzontiformes) Revealed by a Taxonomically Comprehensive Molecular Data Set. American Fisheries Society Symposium Reference page. 

• Renaud, C.B. 2011. Lampreys of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of lamprey species known to date. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes 5: vi + 109. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• Van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa 3882(1): 1–230. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 Reference page.