Acanthistius Gill [T. N.] 1862:236 Masc. Plectropoma serratum Cuvier 1828. Type by monotypy. See Craig & Hastings 2007:6 [ref. 29046]. •Valid as Acanthistius Gill 1862 -- (Hutchins 1981 [ref. 5583], Hutchins & Kuiter 1982 [ref. 5373], Kendall 1984:500 [ref. 13663], Nakamura in Nakamura et al. 1986:196 [ref. 14235], Heemstra & Randall 1986:510 [ref. 5667], Paxton et al. 1989:489 [ref. 12442], Gomon et al. 1994:528 [ref. 22532], Rojas M. & Pequeño 1998:171 [ref. 23775], Heemstra & Randall 1999:2448 [ref. 24815], Hoese & Bray 2006:1031 [ref. 29000], Irigoyen et al. 2008:53 [ref. 29703], Roberts & Gomon 2008:536 [ref. 30641], Heemstra 2010:60 [ref. 30720], Anderson & Heemstra 2012:13 [ref. 31956], Roberts 2015:1182 [ref. 34193], Anderson 2018:5 [ref. 36146], Parenti & Randall 2020:5 [ref. 37354]). Current status: Valid as Acanthistius Gill 1862. Anthiadidae.