brownriggii, Chaetodon Bennett [J. W.] 1828:unnum. p., Pl. 8 [A selection from the most remarkable and interesting fishes found on the coast of Ceylon First Edition; ref. 16785] South coast of Sri Lanka, Indian Ocean. No types known. •Synonym of Chrysiptera biocellata (Quoy & Gaimard 1825) -- (Allen 1991:242 [ref. 19344]). •Valid as Chrysiptera brownriggii (Bennett 1828) -- (Pethiyagoda et al. 1994:43-44 [ref. 21456], Randall et al. 1997:264 [ref. 25919], Anderson et al. 1998:25 [ref. 23611], Myers 1999:181 [ref. 23965], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:626 [ref. 25122], Randall & Earle 2000:16 [ref. 25806], Allen 2001:3343 [ref. 26132], Allen & Bailey 2002:42 [ref. 26525], Allen & Adrim 2003:45 [ref. 26830] as brownriggi, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S113 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:632 [ref. 27495], Lobel & Lobel 2004:73 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:20 [ref. 27624], Heemstra et al. 2004:3324 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:363 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1452 [ref. 29090], Fricke et al. 2009:79 [ref. 30213], Shibukawa 2009:207 [ref. 30449], Motomura et al. 2010:151 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:589 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:264 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2014:117 [ref. 33932], Allen et al. 2015:18 [ref. 33797], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:7 [ref. 33988], Koeda et al. 2016:68 [ref. 35333], Fowler et al. 2017:[4] 2252 [ref. 36358], Fricke et al. 2018:266 [ref. 35805], Arndt & Fricke 2019:26 [ref. 36883], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:136 [ref. 40104], Zajonz et al. 2019:86 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 23 [ref. 38321], Parenti 2021:59 [ref. 38418], Allen 2022:141 [ref. 39911], Farhana-Azmi et al. 2022:10 [ref. 40448], Noushad K. et al. 2024:45 [ref. 40947]). Current status: Valid as Chrysiptera brownriggii (Bennett 1828). Pomacentridae: Pomacentrinae. Distribution: Indian Ocean: South Africa, East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to western Indonesia. Habitat: marine.