Pontinus Poey [F.] 1860:172 Masc. Pontinus castor Poey 1860. Type regarded as by monotypy since Poey only included one species with certainty (see also Eschmeyer 1965:527 [ref. 1273]). •Valid as Pontinus Poey 1860 -- (Eschmeyer 1969:23 [ref. 1274], Blanc & Hureau 1973:582 [ref. 7218], Shimizu in Masuda et al. 1984:314 [ref. 6441], Hureau & Litvinenko in Whitehead et al. 1986:1213 [ref. 13677], Eschmeyer 1986:470 [ref. 5652], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1987:82 [ref. 15964], Poss 1999:2304 [ref. 24796], Mandrytsa 2001:251 [ref. 25636], Poss & Eschmeyer 2003:1235 [ref. 27048], Robertson et al. 2017:77 [ref. 35676], Fricke et al. 2018:132 [ref. 35805], Brown et al. 2019:179 [ref. 36444]). Current status: Valid as Pontinus Poey 1860. Scorpaenidae: Scorpaeninae.