Pachypops

Pachypops is a small genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. The three recognised species in the genus are found in South America.

==Taxonomy== Pachypops was first proposed as a genus in 1861 by the American biologist Theodore Gill with Micropogon trifilis designated as its type species, and only species. Micropogon trifilis was originally described in 1849 by the German zoologists Johannes Peter Müller and Franz Hermann Troschel with its type locality given as British Guiana. The genus Pachypops is included in the subfamily Pachyurinae by some workers, but the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise subfamilies within the Sciaenidae, which it places in the order Acanthuriformes.