Pempheris is a genus of sweepers native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.

Species There are currently more than 70 recognized species in this genus: Pempheris adspersa Griffin, 1927 (New Zealand bigeye) Pempheris adusta Bleeker, 1877 (Dusky sweeper) Pempheris affinis McCulloch, 1911 (Black-tipped sweeper) Pempheris analis Waite, 1910 (Bronze sweeper) Pempheris andilana J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris argyrea J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris bexillon Mooi & J. E. Randall, 2014Mooi, R.D. & Randall, J.E. (2014): Pempheris bexillon, a new species of sweeper (Teleostei: Pempheridae) from the Western Indian Ocean. Zootaxa, 3780 (2): 388–398. Pempheris bineeshi J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris bruggemanni J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris compressa (J. White, 1790) (Small-scale sweeper, small-scale bullseye) Pempheris connelli J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris convexa J. E. Randall & Victor, 2014Randall, J.E. & Victor, B.C. (2014): Four new fishes of the genus Pempheris (Perciformes: Pempheridae) from the western Indian Ocean. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 12: 61-83. Pempheris cuprea J. E. Randall & Victor, 2014 Pempheris darvelli J. E. Randall & Victor, 2014 Pempheris eatoni J. E. Randall & Victor, 2014 Pempheris ellipse J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris familia Koeda & Motomura, 2017 Pempheris flavicycla J. E. Randall, Satapoomin & Alpermann, 2013Randall, J.E., Bogorodsky, S.V., Alpermann, T.J., Satapoomin, U., Mooi, R.D. & Mal, A.O. (2013): Pempheris flavicycla, a new pempherid fish from the Indian Ocean, previously identified as P. vanicolensis Cuvier. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 9: 1-23. P. f. flavicycla J. E. Randall, Satapoomin & Alpermann, 2013 (Yellow-eye sweeper) P. f. marisrubri J. E. Randall, Bogorodsky & Alpermann, 2013 Pempheris gasparinii H. T. Pinheiro, Bernardi & L. A. Rocha, 2016 (Trindade sweeper)Pinheiro, H.T., Bernardi, G. & Rocha, L.A. (2016): Pempheris gasparinii, a new species of sweeper fish from Trindade Island, southwestern Atlantic (Teleostei, Pempheridae). ZooKeys, 561: 105-115. Pempheris hadra J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris heemstraorum J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris hollemani J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris ibo J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris japonica Döderlein (de), 1883 Pempheris klunzingeri McCulloch, 1911 (Klunzinger's sweeper) Pempheris kruppi J. E. Randall, Victor & Aideed, 2015 Pempheris kuriamuria J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris leiolepis J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris malabarica G. Cuvier, 1831 Pempheris mangula G. Cuvier, 1829 (Black-edged sweeper) Pempheris megalops J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris micromma J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris molucca G. Cuvier, 1829 Pempheris multiradiata Klunzinger, 1879 (Common sweeper) Pempheris muscat J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris nesogallica G. Cuvier, 1831Randall, J.E., Victor, B.C., Alpermann, T.J., Bogorodsky, S.V., Mal, A.O., Satapoomin, U. & Bineesh, K.K. (2014): Rebuttal to Koeda et al. (2014) on the Red Sea fishes of the perciform genus Pempheris. Zootaxa, 3887 (3): 377–392. Pempheris nyctereutes D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1902 Pempheris orbis J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris ornata Mooi & R. N. Jubb, 1996 (Orange-lined sweeper) Pempheris otaitensis G. Cuvier, 1831 Pempheris oualensis G. Cuvier, 1831 (Silver sweeper) Pempheris pathirana J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris peza J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris poeyi T. H. Bean, 1885 (Curved sweeper) Pempheris rapa Mooi, 1998 Pempheris rhomboidea Kossman & Räuber, 1877 (Dusky sweeper) Pempheris rochai J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris rubricauda J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris russellii F. Day, 1888 Pempheris sarayu J. E. Randall & Bineesh, 2014Randall, J.E. & Bineesh, K.K. (2014): Review of the fishes of the genus Pempheris (Perciformes: Pempheridae) of India, with description of a new species and a neotype for P. mangula Cuvier. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 10: 20-40. Pempheris schomburgkii J. P. Müller & Troschel, 1848 (Glassy sweeper) Pempheris schreineri A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915 Pempheris schwenkii Bleeker, 1855 (Black-stripe sweeper) Pempheris sergey J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris shimoni J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris shirleen J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris smithorum J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris tau J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris ternay J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015(seychelles sweeper) Pempheris tilman J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris tiran J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris tominagai Koeda, Yoshino & Tachihara, 2014Koeda, K., Yoshino, T., Imai, H. & Tachihara, K. (2014): A review of the genus Pempheris (Perciformes, Pempheridae) of the Red Sea, with description of a new species. Zootaxa, 3793 (3): 301–330. Pempheris trinco J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris ufuagari Koeda, Yoshino & Tachihara, 2013 (Crown sweeper) Pempheris vanicolensis G. Cuvier, 1831 (Vanikoro sweeper) Pempheris viridis J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris wilsoni J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris xanthomma J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 Pempheris xanthoptera Tominaga, 1963 Pempheris ypsilychnus Mooi & R. N. Jubb, 1996 (Ypsilon sweeper) Pempheris zajonzi J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015

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