Pteroidichthys Bleeker [P.] 1856:33 Masc. Pteroidichthys amboinensis Bleeker 1856. Type by monotypy. •Possibly valid as Pteroidichthys Bleeker 1856 -- (Eschmeyer et al. 1973:305 [ref. 6390]). •Valid as Pterodichthys Bleeker 1856 -- (Rama-Rao 1980 [ref. 6797], Kishimoto in Masuda et al. 1984:317 [ref. 6441], Chen & Liu 1984:101 [ref. 13451], Paxton et al. 1989:446 [ref. 12442], Poss 1999:2301 [ref. 24796], Mandrytsa 2001:255 [ref. 25636], Allen et al. 2006:884 [ref. 29066], Fricke et al. 2015:1 [ref. 33892], Motomura & Kanade 2015:491 [ref. 34096], Golani & Fricke 2018:53 [ref. 36273]). Current status: Valid as Pteroidichthys Bleeker 1856. Scorpaenidae: Scorpaeninae.