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Genera in the family or subfamily Priacanthidae: [ 8 ] records

Abuhamrur (subgenus of Sciaena) Forsskål [P. S.] 1775:44 Masc. Sciaena hamrur Forsskål 1775. Appeared as Abu hamrur, a subgroup of Sciaena and tied to the species Sciaena hamrur. Not available; regarded as non-latinized Arabic name (see Jordan 1917:33-34 [ref. 2407]) but that is incorrect under the current code. Not available as it was written in two words. •Synonym of Priacanthus Oken 1817. Suppressed. Current status: Synonym of Priacanthus Oken 1817. Priacanthidae.

Bogoda Blyth [E.] 1860:139 Fem. Not an original description, Blyth merely referred his new species infuscata to Bleeker's genus Bogoda; treated as an original description by Jordan but misspelled Bogota. •In the synonymy of Priacanthus Oken 1817. Current status: Synonym of Priacanthus Oken 1817. Priacanthidae.

Boops Gronow [L. T.] in Gray 1854:58 Masc. Boops asper Gronow 1854. Type by monotypy. Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Boops Cuvier 1814 in fishes, not replaced. •Synonym of Priacanthus Oken 1817 -- (Starnes 1988:154 [ref. 6978]). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Priacanthus Oken 1817. Priacanthidae.

Cookeolus (subgenus of Priacanthus) Fowler [H. W.] 1928:190 Masc. Priacanthus japonicus Cuvier 1829. Type by subsequent designation. Originally based on a misidentified type species, Anthias boops Forster 1801; Priacanthus japonicus Cuvier 1829 was designated as the type to preserve current usage (Demirjian 2019:87 [ref. 36771]). Current usage (sensu Starnes 1988) as a valid genus distinct from Heteropriacanthus Fitch & Crooke 1984. •Valid as Cookeolus Fowler 1928 -- (Fitch & Crooke 1984 [ref. 4950], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:143 [ref. 6441], Heemstra 1986:544 [ref. 5660], Starnes 1988:142 [ref. 6978], Paxton et al. 1989:542 [ref. 12442], Kon & Yoshino 1997:351 [ref. 23368], Starnes 1999:2592 [ref. 24834], Starnes 2003:1381 [ref. 27084], Parin 2003:S4 [ref. 28536], Paxton et al. 2006:1117 [ref. 28995], Shinohara et al. 2011:49 [ref. 31715], Motomura et al. 2017:94 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:163 [ref. 35805], Brown et al. 2019:177 [ref. 36444]). Current status: Valid as Cookeolus Fowler 1928. Priacanthidae.

Heteropriacanthus Fitch [J. E.] & Crooke [S. J.] 1984:310 Masc. Labrus cruentatus Lacepède 1801. Type by original designation (also monotypic). Technically a synonym of Cookeolus Fowler 1928, but petition was being prepared for submission to ICZN (see Starnes 1988:145 [ref. 6978]). Current usage (sensu Starnes) as a valid genus distinct from Cookeolus Fowler 1928. •Valid as Heteropriacanthus Fitch & Crooke 1984 -- (Starnes 1988:149 [ref. 6978], Paxton et al. 1989:542 [ref. 12442], Kon & Yoshino 1997:351 [ref. 23368], Starnes 1999:2592 [ref. 24834], Starnes 2003:1381 [ref. 27084], Paxton et al. 2006:1117 [ref. 28995], Gomon 2008:556 [ref. 30616], Iwatsuki 2009:100 [ref. 30433], Parin et al. 2014:357 [ref. 33547], Gaither et al. 2015:715 [ref. 35422], Fernandez-Silva & Ho 2017:341 [ref. 35348], Motomura et al. 2017:94 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:163 [ref. 35805], Brown et al. 2019:177 [ref. 36444]). Current status: Valid as Heteropriacanthus Fitch & Crooke 1984. Priacanthidae.

Priacanthus Oken [L.] (ex Cuvier) 1817:1182 Masc. Anthias macrophthalmus Bloch 1792. Type by subsequent designation. Based on "Les Priacanthes" of Cuvier 1816:281 [ref. 993] (see Gill 1903:966 [ref. 5768]) and possibly Cuvier 1814:90. Cuvier included 2 species in a footnote; earliest subsequent designation appears to be Jordan & Evermann 1896:1237 [ref. 2443]. •Valid as Priacanthus Oken 1817 -- (Hureau 1973:364 [ref. 7197], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:143 [ref. 6441], Hureau in Whitehead et al. 1986:799 [ref. 13676], Heemstra 1986:545 [ref. 5660], Starnes 1988:154 [ref. 6978], Paxton et al. 1989:543 [ref. 12442], Kon & Yoshino 1997:351 [ref. 23368], Starnes 1999:2592 [ref. 24834], Starnes 2003:1381 [ref. 27084], Parin 2003:S5 [ref. 28536], Paxton et al. 2006:1118 [ref. 28995], Iwatsuki 2009:101 [ref. 30433], Shinohara et al. 2011:49 [ref. 31715], Iwatsuki et al. 2012:54 [ref. 31809], Parin et al. 2014:357 [ref. 33547], Trnski 2015:1233 [ref. 34198], Motomura et al. 2017:94 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:163 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:70 [ref. 36273] once misspelled Riacanthus, Fricke et al. 2019:130 [ref. 36673], Hashimoto & Motomura 2024:1 [ref. 41031]). Current status: Valid as Priacanthus Oken 1817. Priacanthidae.

Pristigenys Agassiz [L.] 1835:299 Fem. Chaetodon substriatus Blainville 1818. Type by monotypy. Apparently available from Agassiz 1835 as new generic name in association with an established fossil species name, now †Pristigenys substriata (Blainville 1818). Recent species are assigned to it as well. See also Pseudopriacanthus Bleeker 1869. •Valid as Pristigenys Agassiz 1835 -- (Fritzsche & Johnson 1981 [ref. 5399], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:143 [ref. 6441], Heemstra 1986:546 [ref. 5660], Taverne 1988 [ref. 6863], Starnes 1988:131 [ref. 6978], Paxton et al. 1989:543 [ref. 12442], Kon & Yoshino 1997:351 [ref. 23368], Starnes 1999:2591 [ref. 24834], Starnes 2003:1380 [ref. 27084], Paxton et al. 2006:1119 [ref. 28995], Nair & Geetha 2006:263 [ref. 29275], Iwatsuki 2009:102 [ref. 30433], Iwatsuki et al. 2012:41 [ref. 31809], Carnevale et al. 2017:554 [ref. 35284], Motomura et al. 2017:96 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:164 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:71 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:130 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Pristigenys Agassiz 1835. Priacanthidae.

Pseudopriacanthus Bleeker [P.] 1869:241 Masc. Priacanthus niphonius Cuvier 1829. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Morrison 1890 [ref. 6864]. As Pseudopriacanthus and †Pristigenys are sister taxa, we prefer to unite both genera under the frequently used generic name Pristigenys. •Valid as Pseudopriacanthus Bleeker 1869 -- (Fitch & Crooke 1984 [ref. 4950], Carnevale et al. 2017:554 [ref. 35284]). •Synonym of fossil genus Pristigenys Agassiz 1835 -- (Fritzsche & Johnson 1981 [ref. 5399], Taverne 1988 [ref. 6863], Starnes 1988:131 [ref. 6978], Iwatsuki et al. 2012:41 [ref. 31809]). Current status: Synonym of Pristigenys Agassiz 1835. Priacanthidae.