teira, Chaetodon Forsskål [P. S.] 1775:60, xii [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] [Lohajæ] Al-Luhayya, Yemen, Red Sea. Holotype: ZMUC 82. Misspelled tiera in literature. •Valid as Platax teira (Forsskål 1775) -- (Dor 1984:168 [ref. 29757], Hayashi in Masuda et al. 1984:181 [ref. 6441], Smith 1986:606 [ref. 5712], Kishimoto et al. 1988:29 [ref. 13446], Allen & Swainston 1988:94 [ref. 25477] as tiera, Randall et al. 1990:219 [ref. 15987], Kuiter 1993:251 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:162 [ref. 25479], Goren & Dor 1994:46 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:382 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:394 [ref. 27969] as tiera, Allen 1997:146 [ref. 23977], Larson & Williams 1997:362 [ref. 23967], Carpenter et al. 1997:217 [ref. 23922], Chen et al. 1997:113 [ref. 26476], Kuiter 1997:236 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:219 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:265 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:529 [ref. 24106], Francis et al. 1999:575 [ref. 24249], Johnson 1999:739 [ref. 25471], Heemstra in Randall & Lim 2000:641 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1313 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:291 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:268 [ref. 25480], Allen 2000:122 [ref. 25868], Heemstra 2001:3619 [ref. 26298], Hutchins 2001:36 [ref. 25847], Kuiter & Debelius 2001:188 [ref. 26232], Nakabo 2002:1313 [ref. 26193], Youn 2002:412, 668 [ref. 26218], Allen & Adrim 2003:62 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S120 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:646 [ref. 27495], Adrim et al. 2004:126 [ref. 27715], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:252 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:570 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:484 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:1719 [ref. 29090], Fricke et al. 2007:108 [ref. 29533], Fricke et al. 2009:105 [ref. 30213], Kimura in Matsuura & Kimura 2009:295 [ref. 31170], Motomura et al. 2010:224 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1005 [ref. 31980]). Current status: Valid as Platax teira (Forsskål 1775). Ephippidae. Distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, South Africa, Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to Northern Marianas, Solomon Islands and Loyalty Islands (New Caledonia), north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia) and Norfolk Island; Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: marine.