lividus, Chaetodon Forster [J. R.] in Bloch & Schneider 1801:235 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Tahuata, Marquesas Is, southern Pacific. No types known. Type locality information from Randall 2004:390 [ref. 28077]. Based on description in manuscript by Forster (Johann Reinhold Forster, 1729-1798, German explorer and naturalist of Cook's second voyage). Range now considered to be the Marquesas Is.; other localities are misidentifications. •Valid as Stegastes lividus (Forster 1801) [but non-Marquesas references are punctatus] -- (Dor 1984:188 [ref. 29757], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:194 [ref. 6441], Allen & Emery 1985:22 [ref. 5236], Allen & Swainston 1988:106 [ref. 25477], Randall et al. 1990:284 [ref. 15987], Allen 1991:253 [ref. 19344], Goren & Dor 1994:51 [ref. 25356], Allen 1997:170 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:284 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:187 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:387 [ref. 24106], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:627 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:949 [ref. 25182], Allen 2000:111 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:267 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:38 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:949 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:47 [ref. 26830] with authors as Bloch & Schneider, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S114 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:633 [ref. 27495], Myers & Donaldson 2003:633 [ref. 27495] with authors as Bloch & Schneider, Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:143 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:21 [ref. 27624], Randall 2004:390 [ref. 28077], Randall 2005:385 [ref. 28239], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:7 [ref. 33988], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 24 [ref. 38321] misidentified, Parenti 2021:83 [ref. 38418]). Current status: Valid as Stegastes lividus (Forster 1801). Pomacentridae: Microspathodontinae. Distribution: South Pacific: Marquesas Islands [other records are Stegastes punctatus on ref. 28077]. Habitat: marine.