botche, Myripristis Cuvier [G.] 1829:151 [Le Règne Animal (Edition 2) v. 2; ref. 995] Vizagapatam, India. No types known. See also Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829:180 [ref. 4879]. Based on Russel 1803, pl. 105. •Valid as Myripristis botche Cuvier 1829 -- (Randall & Greenfield 1996:25 [ref. 22543], Anderson et al. 1998:22 [ref. 23611], Randall & Greenfield 1999:2239 [ref. 24790], Nakabo 2000:497 [ref. 25086], Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:602 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:25 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:497 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:26 [ref. 26830], Randall et al. 2003:410 [ref. 26954], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S101 [ref. 27377], Heemstra et al. 2004:3318 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:88 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:778 [ref. 29066], Fricke et al. 2009:33 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:83 [ref. 31256], Fricke et al. 2011:373 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:169 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:72 [ref. 32988], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:5 [ref. 33988] as cf. botche, Psomadakis et al. 2015:181 [ref. 34104], Eguchi & Motomura 2016:66 [ref. 34690], Fricke et al. 2018:112 [ref. 35805], Fricke et al. 2019:81 [ref. 36673], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 9 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:350 [ref. 37272], Durville et al. 2021:310 [ref. 38802], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:105 [ref. 41223], Randall & Heemstra 2022:404 [ref. 39719], Allen & Erdmann 2024:186 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Myripristis botche Cuvier 1829. Holocentridae: Myripristinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Philippines and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to Western Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.