{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic_taxobox | fossil_range = <!-- {{fossilrange|33.9|30|Early Oligocene}} --> | image = Plectrypops retrospinis - pone.0010676.g037.png | image_caption = ''Plectrypops retrospinis'' | taxon = Plectrypops | authority = T. N. Gill, 1862 }}
<ref>{{Cite journal |title=NAẒM |last=Ghazal |first=Nazm |date=18 September 2019 |doi=10.1163/9789004206106_eifo_sim_8857}}</ref>'''''Plectrypops''''' is a genus of soldierfish containing two extant species, with one species in the Indo-Pacific, and another in the western Atlantic and the Caribbean. They are red and reach a length of approximately 15 cm (6 in). Some members of this genus are also known from fossil remains.<ref name="sepkoskidb">{{cite journal |last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |date=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |accessdate=2009-02-27}}</ref>
==Species== There are currently two recognized species in this genus:<ref>{{FishBase genus | genus = Plectrypops| month = October | year = 2012}}</ref> * ''Plectrypops lima'' <small>(Valenciennes, 1831)</small> (Shy soldier) * ''Plectrypops retrospinis'' <small>(Guichenot, 1853)</small> (Cardinal soldierfish)
==See also== {{Portal|Paleontology|Fish}} * Prehistoric fish * List of prehistoric bony fish
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Category:Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Category:Holocentridae Category:Marine fish genera Category:Taxa named by Theodore Gill
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