Macolor

Macolor is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, snappers belonging to the family Lutjanidae. They are native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

== Taxonomy == Macolor was described as a genus in 1860 by the Dutch physician, herpetologist and ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker. Bleeker used the name Macolor tautonymously as the type species was Cuvier’s Diacope macolor which Bleeker renamed, needlessly, Macolor typus. The name may be derived from macula, Latin for “spot” a reference to the white spotting on the otherwise black body of the juveniles of M. niger. The genus is placed within the subfamily Lutjaninae.