Champsodon Günther [A.] 1867:102 Masc. Champsodon vorax Günther 1867. Type by monotypy. Family placement now in Acropomatiformes, thought to be a scorpaenoid (see Mooi & Gill 1995:130 [ref. 23497] and Mooi & Johnson 1997 [ref. 22939]), but this is not supported by Smith & Wheeler 2004:636 [ref. 28583]. •Valid as Champsodon Günther 1867 -- (Matsubara et al. 1964 [ref. 7061], Amaoka in Masuda et al. 1984:221 [ref. 6441], Heemstra 1986:734 [ref. 5660], Nemeth 1994:351 [ref. 21820], Mooi & Johnson 1997:143 [ref. 22929], Nemeth 2001:3498 [ref. 26281], Bray et al. 2006:1483 [ref. 29091], Bariche 2010:197 [ref. 31136], Motomura et al. 2010:179 [ref. 31256], Shinohara et al. 2011:53 [ref. 31715], Yapici et al. 2015:1 [ref. 34006], Motomura et al. 2017:191 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:301 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:136 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:247 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Champsodon Günther 1867. Champsodontidae.