Pomadasys Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1802:515 Masc. Sciaena argentea Forsskål 1775. Type by monotypy. Spelled Pomadasis in early literature. •Valid as Pomadasys Lacepède 1802 -- (Roux 1973:391 [ref. 7200], Johnson 1980:11 [ref. 13553], Akazaki in Masuda et al. 1984:173 [ref. 6441], Ben-Tuvia & McKay in Whitehead et al. 1986:862 [ref. 13676], Smith & McKay 1986:566 [ref. 5716], Roux 1986:328 [ref. 6209], Ye in Pan et al. 1991:406 [ref. 23876], Bauchot in Lévêque et al. 1992:696 [ref. 21590], Bussing 1993:245 [ref. 19564], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:338 [ref. 24550], McKay 2001:2962 [ref. 26103], Lindeman & Toxey 2003:1526 [ref. 27094], Allen et al. 2006:1223 [ref. 29090], Snoeks & Vreven 2007:429 [ref. 30079], Ren & Zhang 2007:837 [ref. 32149], Matsunuma et al. 2009:61 [ref. 30884], Tavera et al. 2012:6 [ref. 32469], Kottelat 2013:348 [ref. 32989], Jawad et al. 2014:18 [ref. 33531], Bañón et al. 2014:323 [ref. 33674], Hata et al. 2015:115 [ref. 34419], Motomura et al. 2017:144 [ref. 35490], Robertson et al. 2017:89 [ref. 35676], Fricke et al. 2018:209 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:97 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:165 [ref. 36673], Parenti 2019:166 [ref. 37021]). Current status: Valid as Pomadasys Lacepède 1802. Haemulidae: Haemulinae.