Sparisoma (subgenus of Petronason) Swainson [W.] 1839:172, 227 Neut. Sparus abildgaardi Bloch 1791. Type by monotypy. Sparisomus is a misspelling. •Valid as Sparisoma Swainson 1839 -- (Monod 1973:444 [ref. 7193], Richards & Leis 1984:544 [ref. 13668], Quignard & Pras in Whitehead et al. 1986:943 [ref. 13676], Bellwood 1994:64 [ref. 19116], Parenti & Randall 2000:60 [ref. 24943], Streelman et al. 2002:964 [ref. 26053], Westneat 2003:1724 [ref. 27105], Gasparini et al. 2003:12 [ref. 27436], Robertson et al. 2006:796 [ref. 31512], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:56 [ref. 36649], Pinheiro et al. 2010:59 [ref. 30844], Parenti & Randall 2011:38 [ref. 31299], Rocha et al. 2012:61 [ref. 31733], Parenti & Randall 2018:24 [ref. 35964], Brown et al. 2019:175 [ref. 36444]). Current status: Valid as Sparisoma Swainson 1839. Labridae.