Odontoscion is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the croakers and drums.

Odontoscion was first proposed as a genus in 1862 by the American biologist Theodore Gill with its type species, and only species, designated as Corvina dentex[1] which had originally been described in 1830 by Georges Cuvier from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

[4] Odontoscion is a combination of odontos, meaning teeth, a referenece to the 6 or 7 large canine-like teeth on each side of both jaws of the type species, with scion, a modern Greek name of the shi drum (Umbrina cirrosa), which Gill chose in preference to “sciaena” because he thought that it sounded better, similar to his coining of Cynoscion.

The mouth is moderately large, upwards pointing and has a protruding lower jaw.

[6] Odontoscion are found off the Americas with a single species, O. dentex in the Western Atlantic Ocean occurring from Florida and Cuba south to Brazil.