Editing Sparidae (section)

==Taxonomy==
Sparidae was first proposed as a family in 1818 by the French [[polymath]] and [[naturalist]] [[Constantine Samuel Rafinesque]].<ref name = VDLEF/> Traditionally the taxa within the Spariformes were classified within the [[Perciformes]], with some authorities using the term "Sparoid lineage" for the families Centracanthidae, Nemipteridae, Lethrinidae and Sparidae.<ref name = C&J>{{cite journal |author=[[Kent E. Carpenter]] |author2=[[G. David Johnson]] |name-list-style=and |year=2002 |title=A phylogeny of sparoid fishes (Perciformes, Percoidei) based on morphology |journal=Ichthyological Research |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=114–127 |doi=10.1007/s102280200015 }}</ref> Since then the use of [[molecular phylogenetics]] in more modern classifications has meant that the Spariformes is recognised as a valid order within the [[Percomorpha]] containing six families, with Callanthidae, Sillaginidae and Lobotidae included.<ref name = Nelson5/> Other workers have found that the Centracanthidae is [[Synonym (taxonomy)|synonymous]] with Sparidae and that the Spariformes contains only the remaining three families of the "Sparoid lineage".<ref name = Deepfin>{{cite journal | author1 = Ricardo Betancur-R | author2 = Edward O. Wiley | author3 = Gloria Arratia | author4 = Arturo Acero | author5 = Nicolas Bailly | author6 = Masaki Miya | author7 = Guillaume Lecointre | author8 = Guillermo Ortí | display-authors = 3 | title =Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes | journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 17 | issue = 162 | year = 2017 | page = 162 | doi = 10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3| doi-access = free | pmid = 28683774 | pmc = 5501477 | bibcode = 2017BMCEE..17..162B }}</ref>

In the past workers recognised six [[subfamilies]] within the Sparidae. These were Boopsinae, Denticinae, Diplodinae, Pagellinae, Pagrinae, and Sparinae. However, these taxa did not resolve as monophyletic in all the analyses undertaken. These analyses  support Sparidae as a monophyletic family if ''[[Spicara]]'', a genus formerly in the family Centracanthidae, was included. This meant that ''Spicara'' and ''[[Centracanthus]]'' were both now classified within Sparidae, so that Centracanthidae is a [[Synonym (taxonomy)|junior synonym]] of Sparidae.<ref name = Nelson5/>