Pomacentrus Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1802:505 Masc. Chaetodon pavo Bloch 1787. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Bleeker 1877:40 [ref. 454]. Also spelled Pomatocentrus by Gill 1890:4612 [ref. 32974]. •Valid as Pomacentrus Lacepède 1802 -- (Allen 1975:202 [ref. 97], Shen & Chan 1978:236 [ref. 6945], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:195 [ref. 6441], Allen 1986:680 [ref. 5631], Tang 2001:596 [ref. 25446], Allen 2001:3340 [ref. 26132], Allen & Wright 2003:136 [ref. 27247], Allen et al. 2006:1463 [ref. 29090], Allen & Erdmann 2009:122 [ref. 30681], Allen et al. 2011:35 [ref. 31134], Kottelat 2013:378 [ref. 32989], Allen et al. 2017:47 [ref. 35154], Motomura et al. 2017:174 [ref. 35490], Allen et al. 2017:22 [ref. 35605], Fricke et al. 2018:272 [ref. 35805], Allen et al. 2018:1 [ref. 35949], Golani & Fricke 2018:116 [ref. 36273], Frable & Tea 2019:323 [ref. 36783], Fricke et al. 2019:218 [ref. 36673], Habib et al. 2020:413 [ref. 37844], Allen et al. 2020:38 [ref. 38057], Parenti 2021:72 [ref. 38418], Tang et al. 2021:296 [ref. 38308], Allen et al. 2022:1 [ref. 39104]). Current status: Valid as Pomacentrus Lacepède 1802. Pomacentridae: Pomacentrinae.