Epiplatys Gill, 1862.
Gill, T. 1862. On the West African genus Hemichromis and description of new species in the museum of the Academy and Smithsonian Institution. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 14: 134-139. [p. 136, footnote]
Type species: Epiplatys sexfasciatus Gill, 1862, type by subsequent designation of Jordan, 1919.
Epiplatys Gill, T. 1862b: Cope, 1870 [pp. 456-457, footnote]; Hoedeman, 1957; Poll, 1957; Stenholt Clausen, 1967; Lambert & Géry, 1970; Roberts, 1975; Daget & Durand, 1981; Parenti, 1981; Daget, 1988b; Lauzanne, 1988; Skelton, 1988; Lazara, 1997; Murphy & Collier, 1997; Costa, 1998f; Murphy, Nguyen, Taylor, & Collier, 1999.
Subgenera:
Aphyoplatys Stenholt Clausen, 1967.
Stenholt Clausen, H. 1967. Tropical Old World cyprinodonts. Akademisk Forlag, Copenhagen, Denmark. 64 pp., 22 figs. [description: p. 32]
Type species: Epiplatys duboisi Poll, 1952a, by original designation, monotypic.
Aphyoplatys Stenholt Clausen, 1967: Lambert & Géry, 1970; Parenti, 1981.
Lycocyprinus Peters, 1868.
Peters, W. C. H. 1868. Über eine neue Untergattung (Peronymus) der Flederthiere und über neue Gattungen und Arten von Fischen. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1868: 145-148. [description: pp. 146-147]
Type species: Poecilia sexfasciata Peters, 1864, by monotypy [= Epiplatys dageti monroviae Arnoult & Daget, 1965 because Poecilia sexfasciata Peters, 1864 is preoccupied by Epiplatys sexfasciatus Gill, 1862 when both species are placed in Epiplatys. If Lycocyprinus is regarded as a genus then the species Poecilia sexfasciata Peters, 1864 would not need a replacement name when used in the binomen Lycocyprinus sexfasciatus (Peters, 1864).]
Lycocyprinus Peters, 1868a: Cope, 1870 [pp. 456-457, footnote]; Parenti, 1981; Eschmeyer & Bailey, 1998.
Parepiplatys Stenholt Clausen, 1967.
Stenholt Clausen, H. 1967. Tropical Old World cyprinodonts. Akademisk Forlag, Copenhagen, Denmark. 64 pp., 22 figs. [description: p. 28]
Type species: Haplochilus grahami Boulenger, 1911, by original designation [described as a subgenus].
Parepiplatys Stenholt Clausen, 1967: Lambert & Géry, 1970; Parenti, 1981.
Pseudepiplatys Stenholt Clausen, 1967.
Stenholt Clausen, H. 1967. Tropical Old World cyprinodonts. Akademisk Forlag, Copenhagen, Denmark. 64 pp., 22 figs. [description: pp. 20, 29-31]
Type species: Haplochilus annulatus Boulenger, 1915a, by original designation.
Pseudepiplatys Stenholt Clausen, 1967: Lambert & Géry, 1970; Parenti, 1981; Eschmeyer & Bailey, 1998
Pseudepiplatus Stenholt Clausen, 1967: Eschmeyer & Bailey, 1998. [This second spelling, Pseudepiplatus, also appears in Stenholt Clausen's article but Pseudepiplatys was chosen as the correct spelling by Eschmeyer & Bailey (1998), acting as first revisers.]
