Günther, Chall. Reports, Zool. xxii. 1887, p. 12.
Bashford Dean, Mem. New York Acad. Sci. ii. Pt. i. 1899, p. 28; Biol. Bull. iv. 1903, p. 270.
E. T. Newton, Mem. Geol. Surv. Monogr. iv. 1878; Riess, Palaeontogr. xxxiv. 1887, p. 1; Smith Woodward, Brit. Mus. Cat. Foss. Fishes, ii. 1891, p. 52; Zittel, Text-Book of Palaeontology, English ed., London and New York, ii. 1902, p. 46.
Hence the name "Teleostomi" or "perfect-mouthed" Fishes.
Boulenger, Poissons du Bassin du Congo, Bruxelles, 1901, p. 2. Smith Woodward (Brit. Mus. Cat. Foss. Fishes, ii. 1891, p. 317; and Vert. Palaeont. Cambridge, 1898, p. 78), following Cope, recognises four sub-orders, the Haplistia, Rhipidistia, Actinistia, and Cladistia. The first sub-order is reserved for the Tarrasiidae, a family which includes only the little known Tarrasius problematicus from the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland.