Evynnis

Evynnis is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sparidae, which includes the seabreams and porgies. The genus comprises 4 species, 3 in the Western Pacific Ocean and 1 in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean.

==Taxonomy== Evynnis was first proposed as a genus in 1912 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and William Francis Thompson with Sparus cardinalis, its only species, designated as its type species. Sparus cardinalis was first formally described in 1802 by Bernard Germain de Lacépède from China and Japan. This genus is placed in the family Sparidae within the order Spariformes by the 5th edition of Fishes of the World. Some authorities classify this genus in the subfamily Sparinae, but the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise subfamilies within the Sparidae.