Acanthopagrus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sparidae, the sea breams and porgies.

Acanthopagrus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1855 by the German zoologist Wilhelm Peters, with its only species, and type species, being Chrysophrys vagus which Peters had described in 1852 from Sena on the Zambezi River in Mozambqiue.

[2] The genus Acanthopagrus is placed in the family Sparidae within the order Spariformes by the 5th edition of Fishes of the World.

[11] The largest species in the genus is the goldsilk seabream (A. berda) with a maximum published total length of 90 cm (35 in) while the smallest is A.

[12] Acanthopagrus sea breams are found in the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans from the eastern coast of Africa and the Red Sea as far east as New Caledonia, south to Australia and north to Japan.