Mycteroperca Gill [T. N.] 1862:236 Fem. Serranus olfax Jenyns 1840. Type by monotypy. •Valid as Mycteroperca Gill 1862 -- (Smith 1971:171 [ref. 14102], Tortonese 1973:360 [ref. 7192], Kendall 1984:500 [ref. 13663], Heemstra 1991:46 [ref. 19323], Heemstra & Randall 1993:256 [ref. 21042], Baldwin & Johnson 1993:251 [ref. 27443], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:262 [ref. 24550], Craig et al. 2001:126 [ref. 26133], Heemstra et al. 2003:1314 [ref. 27060], Craig & Hastings 2007:17 [ref. 29046], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:42 [ref. 36649], Craig et al. 2011:291 [ref. 31786], Ma & Craig 2018:451 [ref. 36100], Parenti & Randall 2020:87 [ref. 37354]). Current status: Valid as Mycteroperca Gill 1862. Epinephelidae.