diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/partitionfinder/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/partitionfinder/package.py
index 78b70da135624ccef6e5431554739b6f83a3d0da..930492c04fdc8c730dc443725de69eba5bc9fcc3 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/partitionfinder/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/partitionfinder/package.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class Partitionfinder(Package):
     depends_on('python@2.7.10:2.999', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('py-numpy', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('py-pandas', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('py-pytables', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-tables', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('py-pyparsing', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('py-scipy', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('py-scikit-learn', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-sfepy/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-sfepy/package.py
index 17427283e36acaa33b071efb3956a3d19bac3773..11dca452e69bf9434812f937389fa0f7bf4cb214 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-sfepy/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-sfepy/package.py
@@ -27,5 +27,5 @@ class PySfepy(PythonPackage):
     depends_on('py-matplotlib', type='run')
     depends_on('py-sympy', type='run')
     depends_on('hdf5+hl', type='run')
-    depends_on('py-pytables', type='run')
+    depends_on('py-tables', type='run')
     depends_on('py-petsc4py', type='run', when='+petsc')
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-pytables/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-tables/package.py
similarity index 98%
rename from var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-pytables/package.py
rename to var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-tables/package.py
index 30f526e625de9dbcab9291454f5921bcf1b81d53..da62a38f5f64d2a2323d06b6dfa76b8ff0630f90 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-pytables/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-tables/package.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 from spack import *
 
 
-class PyPytables(PythonPackage):
+class PyTables(PythonPackage):
     """PyTables is a package for managing hierarchical datasets and designed to
     efficiently and easily cope with extremely large amounts of data."""
     homepage = "http://www.pytables.org/"