aurolineatum, Holocentrum Liénard [F.] 1839:32 [Rapport Annuel sur les travaux de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Ile Maurice No. 10; ref. 17536] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): NHMI (not found). Original as auro-lineatum. For comments on authorship see Monod 1976:21, 22 [ref. 30339]. •Valid as Neoniphon aurolineatus (Liénard 1839) -- (Randall & Heemstra 1985:3 [ref. 5144], Randall & Heemstra 1986:416 [ref. 5707], Paxton et al. 1989:378 [ref. 12442], Randall et al. 1990:64 [ref. 15987], Kotlyar 1996:83 [ref. 23292], Allen 1997:68 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:64 [ref. 25919], Kotlyar 1998:204 [ref. 24674], Myers 1999:83 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:131 [ref. 24106], Randall & Greenfield 1999:2235 [ref. 24790], Nakabo 2000:492 [ref. 25086], Randall & Earle 2000:9 [ref. 25806], Nakabo 2002:492 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:27 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:616 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:9 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:92 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:308 [ref. 28379], Randall et al. 2005:131 [ref. 28745], Allen et al. 2006:780 [ref. 29066], Randall 2007:151 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:34 [ref. 30213], Allen & Erdmann 2012:172 [ref. 31980], Copus et al. 2015:2 [ref. 33666], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:5 [ref. 33988], Eguchi & Motomura 2016:83 [ref. 34690], Koeda et al. 2016:17 [ref. 35333], Kotlyar 2017:34 [ref. 35137], Fricke et al. 2018:114 [ref. 35805], Durville et al. 2021:310 [ref. 38802], Randall & Heemstra 2022:391 [ref. 39719], Allen & Erdmann 2024:190 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Neoniphon aurolineatus (Liénard 1839). Holocentridae: Holocentrinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Madagascar, Comoros, Aldabra (Seychelles) and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), Philippines, south to northern Western Australia and northern Great Barrier Reef (Queensland, Australia). Habitat: marine.