GRAMMISTINI, Bleeker, 1857

Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C. & Abohweyere, P. O., 2003, A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London, Journal of Natural History 37 (18), pp. 2213-2267 : 2236

GRAMMISTINI

The soapfishes have been classed in the family Grammistidae in many recent texts but are now considered to belong within the serranid subfamily Epinephelinae (Baldwin and Johnson, 1993) with the genus Rypticus being placed in the tribe Grammistini . They were included in the Serranidae by Irvine. Two species are known from the mainland coast of tropical West Africa, of which one, Rypticus saponaceus , was collected by Irvine. The other, R. subbifrenatus Gill, 1861 , is small (up to 16 cm) and rarely observed.