Subfamily Sparisomatinae Gill 1893

Sparisominae Gill 1893b:135 [ref. 26255] (subfamily) Sparisoma [genus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1; stem corrected to Sparisomat- by Jordan & Evermann 1898a:1621 [ref. 2444], confirmed by Myers & Storey 1956:25 [ref. 32831], by Schultz 1958:4 [ref. 3970], by Lindberg 1971:158 [ref. 27211] and by Bruce & Randall 1985:1, 5 [ref. 5234]]

Scarichthyidae Jordan & Seale 1905:789 [ref. 2495] (family) Scarichthys [also Jordan & Seale 1906:312 [ref. 2497]]