Cirrhitops

Cirrhitops is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, hawkfishes from the family Cirrhitidae. They are found on tropical reefs of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

==Taxonomy== Cirrhitops was described as a genus in 1951 by the South African ichthyologist J.L.B. Smith with Cirrhites fasciatus as the type species. When he described the genus Smith stated that it was monotypic as he considered that Cirrhites hubbardi, which had been described in 1941 by the American ichthyologist Leonard P. Schultz, was a synonym of C. fasciatus. The name of the genus has the name of the type genus of the family, Cirrhitus, suffixed with ops meaning that they species in the genus are similar in appearance to the species in Cirrhitus and Cirrhitichthys.