diff --git a/src/jsx.erl b/src/jsx.erl
index 5c773a3..e3b870b 100644
--- a/src/jsx.erl
+++ b/src/jsx.erl
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 parser() -> decoder([]).
 
 
--spec parser(OptsList::jsx_opts()) -> jsx_decoder().
+-spec parser(OptsList::jsx_decoder_opts()) -> jsx_decoder().
 
 parser(OptsList) -> decoder(OptsList).    
 
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ parser(OptsList) -> decoder(OptsList).
 decoder() -> decoder([]).
 
 
--spec decoder(OptsList::jsx_opts()) -> jsx_decoder().
+-spec decoder(OptsList::jsx_decoder_opts()) -> jsx_decoder().
 
 
 decoder(OptsList) ->
diff --git a/src/jsx_common.hrl b/src/jsx_common.hrl
index 17f1d9a..378a768 100644
--- a/src/jsx_common.hrl
+++ b/src/jsx_common.hrl
@@ -31,8 +31,9 @@
 ).
 
 
--type jsx_opts() :: [jsx_opt()].
--type jsx_opt() :: {escaped_unicode, ascii | codepoint | none}
+
+-type jsx_decoder_opts() :: [jsx_decoder_opt()].
+-type jsx_decoder_opt() :: {escaped_unicode, ascii | codepoint | none}
     | {multi_term, true | false}
     | {encoding, auto 
         | utf8
diff --git a/src/jsx_decoder.hrl b/src/jsx_decoder.hrl
index a1349d7..c0c0416 100644
--- a/src/jsx_decoder.hrl
+++ b/src/jsx_decoder.hrl
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 %%   this file should take that into account
 
 
--spec decoder(OptsList::jsx_opts()) -> jsx_decoder().
+-spec decoder(OptsList::jsx_decoder_opts()) -> jsx_decoder().
 
 %% opts record for decoder
 -record(opts, {