[2] Pinjalo lewisi was first formally described in 1987 by John Ernest Randall, Gerald R. Allen & William D. Anderson Jr. with the type locality given as Dumaguete market on Negros in the Philippines.

1948) then of the Fisheries Division of the Ministry of Primary Industries in Fiji, in recognition of the many “valuable” specimens and photographs he allowed the authors access to, Lewis also donated a paratype.

[4] Pinjalo lewisi has a moderately deep body, the head has a steep dorsal profile and the space between the eyes is distinctly convex while the snout is short and sharp.

[5] The overall colour is reddish to reddish-orange and there is a pale spot on the dorsal part of the caudal peduncle.

[1] Pinjalo lewisi is caught using handlines, traps and bottom trawls, and, in Australian waters, on deep drop-lines.