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Genera in the family or subfamily Centropomidae: [ 5 ] records

Centropomus Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1802:248 Masc. Centropomus undecimradiatus Lacepède 1802 (= Sciaena undecimalis Bloch 1792). Type by subsequent designation. Type is Sciaena undecimalis Bloch, renamed by Lacepède as S. undecimradiatus. Type designated by Gill 1861:48 [ref. 1768]. Spelled Centropoma by Duméril 1806:333 [ref. 1151]. •Valid as Centropomus Lacepède 1802 -- (Fraser 1968 [ref. 21275], Rivas 1986:579 [ref. 5210], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:250 [ref. 24550], Orrell 2003:1287 [ref. 27053], Li et al. 2011:463 [ref. 32081], Carvalho-Filho et al. 2019:81 [ref. 36975], Figueiredo-Filho et al. 2021:318 [ref. 38206], Malcher et al. 2025:7 [ref. 42452]). Current status: Valid as Centropomus Lacepède 1802. Centropomidae.

Macrocephalus Bleeker [P.] (ex Browne) 1876:336 Masc. Sciaena undecimalis Bloch 1792. Not available, name published in synonymy of Oxylabrax Bleeker; apparently never made available. •In the synonymy of Centropomus Lacepède 1802. Current status: Synonym of Centropomus Lacepède 1802. Centropomidae.

Macrocephalus Browne [P.] 1789:450 Masc. Not available, published in a rejected work on Official Index (Opinion 89). Also preoccupied by Macrocephalus Swederus 1787 in Hemiptera. Appeared as name in synonymy (not available) in Bleeker 1876:336 [ref. 448]. Based on Browne 1756:450 [ref. 30188]. Suppressed. Centropomidae.

Oxylabrax Bleeker [P.] 1876:264 Masc. Sciaena undecimalis Bloch 1792. Type by being a replacement name. Unneeded replacement for Centropomus Lacepède 1802. •Objective synonym of Centropomus Lacepède 1802 -- (Rivas 1986:587 [ref. 5210], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:250 [ref. 24550]). Current status: Synonym of Centropomus Lacepède 1802. Centropomidae.

Platycephalus Miranda Ribeiro [A. de] 1902:3, 7 Masc. Sciaena undecimalis Bloch 1792. Apparently not an original description. Miranda Ribeiro used Platycephalus Bloch & Schneider 1801:58 [ref. 471] for Centropomus undecimalis, but Platycephalus Bloch 1795 (in Platycephalidae) predates use by Bloch & Schneider 1801. •In the synonymy of Centropomus Lacepède 1802. Current status: Synonym of Centropomus Lacepède 1802. Centropomidae.