Acanthistius

Acanthistius
Acanthistius ocellatus
Acanthistius cinctus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Anthiadidae
Genus:	Acanthistius Bloch, 1793
Type species
Plectropoma serratum Cuvier, 1828 [1]
Species
See text.

Acanthistius is a genus of ray-finned fish. Some authors place the genus in the family Anthiadidae, ^[2] while others consider it to be incertae sedis , where it is not clear which family it belongs to. ^[3]

Species

There are 11 species in the genus: ^{[2] [4]}

• Acanthistius brasilianus (Cuvier, 1828)– Argentine sea bass
• Acanthistius cinctus (Günther, 1859)– yellowbanded perch
• Acanthistius fuscus Regan, 1913– Rapanui seabass
• Acanthistius joanae Heemstra, 2010– scalyjaw koester
• Acanthistius ocellatus (Günther, 1859)– eastern wirrah
• Acanthistius pardalotus Hutchins, 1981– leopard wirrah
• Acanthistius patachonicus (Jenyns, 1840)
• Acanthistius paxtoni Hutchins & Kuiter, 1982– orangelined wirra ^[4]
• Acanthistius pictus (Tschudi, 1846)– brick seabass
• Acanthistius sebastoides(Castelnau, 1861)– koester
• Acanthistius serratus (Cuvier, 1828)– western wirrah

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Acanthistius". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 26 May 2020.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Acanthistius". FishBase . December 2019 version.
3. Mansur, L. E. (2011). First record of partial albinism in the temperate rocky reefs fish Acanthistius patachonicus (Insertae sedis) off southwestern Atlantic Ocean. Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences 6(2), 185-87.
4. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order PERCIFORMES (part 4): Suborder SERRANOIDEI: Families SERRANIDAE and ANTHIADIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 12 October 2025.