 This genus is currently considered invalid, though a 1988 review of the phylogeny of the Carangidae found it to be valid, and to be the sister genus to "Pseudocaranx", not closely related to "Carangoides".The species was independently renamed as "Carangoides acutus" in 1974, but this is rejected as a junior synonym under ICZN nomenclature rules.Specimens taken from Hawaii and Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean initially had the name "Caranx (Carangoides) dasson" applied to them by the American ichthyologists Jordan and Snyder.