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Cyttus Günther 1860 from kyttós (κυττός), said by Greco-Egyptian author Athenaeus (circa 200 AD) to be a fish sacred to Dionysus, the Greek god of wine-making, which Günther 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