zoster, Chaetodon Bennett [E. T.] 1831:61 [Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 1830-31 (pt 1); ref. 19795] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. No types known. Neotype designation by Fricke 1999:342 [ref. 24106] is invalid; see Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. •Valid as Hemitaurichthys zoster (Bennett 1831) -- (Burgess 1978:195 [ref. 700], Allen 1980:163 [ref. 22764], Heemstra 1986:631 [ref. 5660], Winterbottom et al. 1989:43 [ref. 13251], Blum 1989:12 [ref. 37553], Randall 1995:252 [ref. 22896], Chen et al. 1997:117 [ref. 26476], Randall & Kunzmann 1998:482 [ref. 23919], Myers 1999:167 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:342 [ref. 24106], Allen & Adrim 2003:43 [ref. 26830], Smith et al. 2003:302 [ref. 27125], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S112 [ref. 27377], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:294 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:325 [ref. 28239], Randall 2007:289 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:73 [ref. 30213], Satapoomin 2009:190 [ref. 30463], Caratini & Soriano 2011:100 [ref. 39915], Allen & Erdmann 2012:538 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2018:240 [ref. 35805], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:157 [ref. 40104], Zajonz et al. 2019:84 [ref. 36871], Durville et al. 2021:313 [ref. 38802], Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:464 [ref. 39746], Allen & Erdmann 2024:571 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Hemitaurichthys zoster (Bennett 1831). Chaetodontidae: Heniochinae. Distribution: Indian Ocean: Aliwal Shoal and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Andaman Sea, western Sumatra and southwestern Java (Indonesia), north to India, south to 28°S. Habitat: marine.