Plectrypops

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}

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| image = Plectrypops retrospinis - pone.0010676.g037.png

| image_caption = Plectrypops retrospinis

| taxon = Plectrypops

| authority = T. N. Gill, 1862

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{{Cite journal |title=NAẒM |last=Ghazal |first=Nazm |date=18 September 2019 |doi=10.1163/9789004206106_eifo_sim_8857}}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.{{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}}