Editing Panga (section)

==Taxonomy==
The panga was first formally [[Species description|described]] as ''Pagrus laniarius'' in 1830 by the French [[zoologist]] [[Achille Valenciennes]] in volume 6 of ''[[Histoire naturelle des poissons]]'', its [[Type locality (biology)|type locality]] was given as the [[Cape of Good Hope]] in South Africa.<ref name = CofF>{{Cof genus|genus=Pterogymnus|access-date=14 February 2024}}</ref> In 1938 [[James Leonard Brierley Smith]] reclassified this species in the monospecific genus ''Pterogymnus''.<ref name = CofF2>{{Cof family|family=Sparidae|access-date=14 February 2024}}</ref> This taxon is placed in the family Sparidae within the [[Order (biology)|order]] [[Spariformes]] by the 5th edition of ''[[Fishes of the World]]''.<ref name = Nelson5>{{cite book |author1=Nelson, J.S. |author1-link=Joseph S. Nelson |author2=Grande, T.C. |author3=Wilson, M.V.H. |year=2016 |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |place=Hoboken, NJ |pages=502–506 |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |lccn=2015037522 |oclc=951899884 |ol=25909650M |doi=10.1002/9781119174844}}</ref> Some authorities classify this genus in the subfamily Sparinae,<ref name = Parenti>{{cite journal |author= Parenti, P. |year=2019 |title=An annotated checklist of the fishes of the family Sparidae |journal=FishTaxa |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=47–98 |url= https://fishtaxa.com/menuscript/index.php/ft/article/view/49/52}}</ref> but the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise subfamilies within the Sparidae.<ref name = Nelson5/>