See article Pareques is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers.

Pareques was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1876 by the American biologist Theodore Gill with Grammistes acuminatus as its only species.

[1] G. acuminatus was first formally described in 1801 by Marcus Elieser Bloch and Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, although they did not give a type locality.

[5] The species of this genus are:[6] Pareques croakers possess deep, oblong-shaped bodies with a snout that protrudes past the inferior mouth.

They have a long based dorsal fin which is spilt into two parts, the first is spiny and is tall, but its height is less than the length of the head.