Plectropomus Oken, 1817

Ma, Ka Yan & Craig, Matthew T., 2018, An Inconvenient Monophyly: An Update on the Taxonomy of the Groupers (Epinephelidae), Copeia 106 (3), pp. 443-456 : 456

Genus Plectropomus Oken (9 species)

Type species: Bodianus maculatus Bloch (by subsequent designation of Jordan, Tanaka, and Snyder).

Type locality: Reported as Japan but probably an error for Java (Heemstra and Randall, 1993).

Included species:

P. areolatus (Rüppell, 1830)

P. laevis (Lacepède, 1801)

P. leopardus (Lacepéde, 1802)

P. maculatus (Bloch, 1790)

P. marisrubri Randall & Hoese 1986

P. oligacanthus (Bleeker, 1855)

P. pessuliferus (Fowler, 1904)

P. powelli (Smith, 1964) (formerly Saloptia )

P. punctatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)