Genus Mycteroperca Gill (27 species)

Type species: Serranus olfax Jenyns (by subsequent designation of Gill 1866).

Type locality: Galapagos Islands.

Included species:

M. acutirostris (Valenciennes, 1828)

M. albomarginatus (Boulenger, 1903) (formerly Epinephelus) M. andersoni (Boulenger, 1903) (formerly Epinephelus) M. bonaci (Poey, 1860)

M. cidi Cervigón, 1966

M. caninus (Valenciennes, 1843) (formerly Epinephelus) M. costae (Steindachner, 1878) (formerly Epinephelus)

M. epistictus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1842) (formerly Epinephelus)

M. fusca (Lowe, 1838)

M. goreensis (Valenciennes, 1830) (formerly Epinephelus) M. heniochus Fowler, 1904 (formerly Epinephelus) M. interstitialis (Poey, 1860)

M. jordani (Jenkins & Evermann, 1889)

M. marginatus (Lowe, 1834) (formerly Epinephelus) M. microlepis (Goode & Bean, 1879)

M. morrhua (Valenciennes, 1833) (formerly Epinephelus) M. olfax (Jenyns, 1840)

M. phenax Jordan & Swain, 1884

M. poecilonotus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1842) (formerly Epinephelus)

M. posteli (Fourmanoir & Crosnier, 1964) (formerly Epinephelus)

M. prionura Rosenblatt & Zahuranec, 1967

M. radiatus (Day, 1868) (formerly Epinephelus)

M. rosacea (Streets, 1877)

M. rubra (Bloch, 1793)

M. tigris (Valenciennes, 1833)

M. venenosa (Linnaeus, 1758)

M. xenarcha Jordan, 1888