| Valid name | Sciaena |
| Synonym | Gender: F; Syst. Nat., ed. X: 289 |
| Synonym | Sciaena (Artedi) Linnaeus, 1758. |
| Synonym | Excursor Gistel, 1848: xiii, substitute for Melantha. |
| Synonym | Type: Trewavas, 1966: 4. |
| Synonym | Melantha Gistel, 1848: 109 (type: 'Corvina nigra (Cuvier)'). |
| Synonym | Corvina Cuvier, 1829: 173 (type: '(Sciaena nigra Gmelin) Bl. 297'). The ref. to Gmelin is an error: S. nigra |
| Synonym | Coracinus Pallas, 1814: 255 (type: C. chalcis Pallas, 1814: 256, by subs. design. of Jordan and Evermann, 1917: 84 |