mataafae, Corythroichthys Jordan [D. S.] & Seale [A.] 1906:213, Fig. 19 [Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries v. 25 (for 1905); ref. 2497] Coral reefs off Mulinu'u, Upolu Island, Samoa. Holotype (unique): USNM 51724. Original genus should have been Corythoichthys. •Valid as Halicampus mataafae (Jordan & Seale 1906) -- (Dawson 1985:89 [ref. 6541], Dawson 1986:451 [ref. 5650], Paxton et al. 1989:419 [ref. 12442], Winterbottom et al. 1989:19 [ref. 13251], Goren & Dor 1994:19 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:101 [ref. 22896], Randall et al. 1997:501 [ref. 25919], Anderson et al. 1998:22 [ref. 23611], Myers 1999:94 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:150 [ref. 24106], Paulus 1999:2270 [ref. 24794], Randall & Lim in Randall & Lim 2000:604 [ref. 25122], Allen & Adrim 2003:28 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S101 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:618 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:10 [ref. 27624], Fricke 2004:29 [ref. 28269], Randall 2005:109 [ref. 28239], Paxton et al. 2006:822 [ref. 29073], Fricke et al. 2009:37 [ref. 30213], Kuiter 2009:267 [ref. 30404], Fricke et al. 2011:375 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:197 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:46 [ref. 33932], Hamilton et al. 2016:Supplement 1 [ref. 35615], Fricke et al. 2018:123 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:50 [ref. 36273], Arndt & Fricke 2019:30 [ref. 36883], Moots 2022:458 [ref. 39722]). Current status: Valid as Halicampus mataafae (Jordan & Seale 1906). Syngnathidae: Syngnathinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar, Saint Brandon's Shoals and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Palau and Fiji, north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to Queensland (Australia). Habitat: marine.