Acanthoplesiops Regan [C. T.] 1912:266 Masc. Acanthoclinus indicus Day 1888. Type by monotypy. Mooi 1993 [ref. 21801] places the Acanthoclinidae as a subfamily of the Plesiopidae. •Valid as Acanthoplesiops Regan 1912 -- (Hayashi in Masuda et al. 1984:142 [ref. 6441], Hardy 1985:381 [ref. 5184], Smith 1986:541 [ref. 5712], Smith-Vaniz & Johnson 1990:233 [ref. 16561], Mooi 1993:322 [ref. 21801], Mooi 1999:2580 [ref. 24831], Mooi & Gill 2004:2 [ref. 27574], Mooi & Gill 2004:181 [ref. 27890], Yerman & Leis 2011:79 [ref. 31400], Gill et al. 2013:216 [ref. 33020], Golani & Fricke 2018:69 [ref. 36273], Allen et al. 2020:57 [ref. 38028], Fujiwara & Shinohara 2022:1 [ref. 39788]). Current status: Valid as Acanthoplesiops Regan 1912. Plesiopidae: Acanthoclininae.