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1998, The Museum, Contributions in Science, numbers 469-480, page 4:
He also placed Lepidocybium Gill 1862 as the sister group of all the other gempylids and trichiurids.
2000, F. J. Gago, J. M. Leis, T. Trnski, “111: Trichiuridae”, in Jeffrey Martin Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart, editors, The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes, page 704:
The larvae most likely to be confused with trichiurids are paralepidids and gempylids.
2002, S. S. Deshpande, Handbook of Food Toxicology, page 696:
The gempylids, or snake mackerels, are a small group of predatory oceanic or pelagic fish.
