Pinjalo is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, snappers belonging to the family Lutjanidae.

They are native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean Pinjalo was created as a monotypic genus by the Dutch physician, herpetologist and ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker, it was a monotypic genus containing only Bleeker's Caesio pinjalo, which he had Species description described in 1850.

[1] The generic name Pinjalo is derived from a Malay word for a fish pinialo.

The overall colour is pink or red on the upper body, whitish or silvery on the lower flanks and abdomen, with fins which may be reddish, pink, yellow, or whitish, frequently with thin dusky margins.

[6] Pinjalo snappers are important to artisanal fisheries in some parts of their range and are potentially exploitable more widely.