Family Pinguipedidae Günther 1860

Percioidei Bleeker 1859d:110 [ref. 371] (family) Percis Bloch & Schneider [invalid, Article 39]

Pinguipedina Günther 1860:251 [ref. 1963] (group) Pinguipes

Parapercioidei Bleeker 1872:127 [ref. 431] (family) Parapercis [stem corrected to Parapercid- by Gill 1893b:136 [ref. 26255], confirmed by Sheiko 2013:103 [ref. 32944]; stem changed to Paraperc- by McCulloch 1929 –30:261 [ref. 2948], confirmed by Myers & Storey 1956:22 [ref. 32831]]

Parapercichthyidae Whitley & Phillipps 1939:235 [ref. 4737] (family) Parapercichthys