| Valid name | Alectis |
| Synonym | Gender: ?; Analyse de la Nature: 84 |
| Synonym | Alectis Rafinesque, 1815 |
| Synonym | Scyris Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817, by monotypy). |
| Synonym | Type: Zeus gallus Fowler, 1936. |
| Synonym | Hynnis Cuvier, in Cuv. Val., 1833. Hist. nat. Poiss., 9: 195 (type: Hynnis goreensis Cuv., in Cuv. Val., by monoty |
| Synonym | Gallus Lacepède, 1803, Hist. nat. Poiss., 4: 583 (type: Gallus virescens Lacepede, 1803, by monotypy) (preoccupied |