Genus Alphestes Bloch and Schneider (3 species)

Type species: Epinephelus afer Bloch (by subsequent designation of Jordan and Swain).

Type locality: Gulf of Guinea (Craig et al., 2006).

Included species:

A. afer (Bloch, 1793)

A. immaculatus Breder, 1936

A. multiguttatus (Günther, 1867)