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Cyttus Günther 1860 from kittós (Gr. κιττός), ivy plant, inexplicably inserted into a list of fishes by Greco-Egyptian author Athenaeus (late 2nd to early 3rd centuries AD), which Günther, believing it to be the name of an unknown fish, applied to this genus

Cyttus australis (Richardson 1843) Latin for southern, referring to its distribution in the southern hemisphere around Australia

Cyttus novaezealandiae (Arthur 1885) of New Zealand, referring to type locality off Otago Heads, New Zealand (also occurs in the southwest Pacific off Australia)

Cyttus traversi Hutton 1872 in honor of New Zealand politician, lawyer, explorer and naturalist William Thomas Locke Travers (1819–1903), who “presented” holotype