polyzonatus, Eleotris Klunzinger [C. B.] 1871:482 [Verhandlungen der K.-K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien v. 21; ref. 2622] Al-Qusair, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt, Red Sea. Syntypes: ZMB 8018 (2) Kosseir. •Valid as Xenisthmus polyzonatus (Klunzinger 1871) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:241 [ref. 6441], Randall et al. 1990:390 [ref. 15987], Randall & Goren 1993:29 [ref. 21131], Goren & Dor 1994:67 [ref. 25356], Randall et al. 1997:390 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:261 [ref. 23965], Gill in Randall & Lim 2000:641 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1153 [ref. 25182], Gill 2001:3606 [ref. 26295], Hutchins 2001:44 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:1153 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:61 [ref. 26830] dated 1877, Myers & Donaldson 2003:645 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:29 [ref. 27624], Gill & Hoese 2004:242 [ref. 27774], Heemstra et al. 2004:3330 [ref. 27945] with question, Randall 2005:561 [ref. 28239], Hoese 2006:1701 [ref. 28998], Motomura et al. 2010:202 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:858 [ref. 31980], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:8 [ref. 33988], Gill et al. 2017:209 [ref. 35404], Golani & Fricke 2018:165 [ref. 36273], Parenti 2021:58 [ref. 38603], Chen et al. 2022:13 [ref. 39615], Gill 2022:200 [ref. 40139], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:27 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Xenisthmus polyzonatus (Klunzinger 1871). Xenisthmidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Comoros, Mascarenes (Rodrigues) and Maldives east to Northern Marianas, Tonga, Samoa and Marquesas Islands, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.