fronticinctus, Monacanthus Günther [A.] in Playfair & Günther 1867:136, Pl. 19 (fig. 2) [The fishes of Zanzibar; ref. 3490] Zanzibar, Tanzania, western Indian Ocean. Syntypes: BMNH 1867.3.9.435 (right half skin), 1867.3.9.436 (stuffed). Novem protectum -- see Parenti 2002:312 [ref. 26661]. •Valid as Cantherhines fronticinctus (Günther 1867) -- (Hutchins 1977:55 [ref. 2283], Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:360 [ref. 6441], Hutchins 1986:884 [ref. 5673], Allen & Swainston 1988:152 [ref. 25477], Winterbottom et al. 1989:67 [ref. 13251], Francis 1993:168 [ref. 25479], Francis & Randall 1993:124 [ref. 20996], Lindberg et al. 1997:91 [ref. 23547], Allen 1997:242 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:540 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:285 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:591 [ref. 24106], Hutchins in Randall & Lim 2000:647 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1405 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:459 [ref. 25191], Allen 2000:124 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:270 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:47 [ref. 25847], Hutchins 2001:3938 [ref. 26316] dated 1866, Nakabo 2002:1405 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:64 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:650 [ref. 27495], Heemstra et al. 2004:3332 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:445 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:633 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1884 [ref. 29098], Randall 2007:480 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:118 [ref. 30213], Randall 2011:12 [ref. 31468], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1072 [ref. 31980], Matsuura 2014:11 [ref. 33576], Moazzam & Osmany 2016:3 [ref. 39994], Motomura et al. 2017:232 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:380 [ref. 35805], Psomadakis et al. 2020:612 [ref. 37272], Hutchins 2022:434 [ref. 40252]). Current status: Valid as Cantherhines fronticinctus (Günther 1867). Monacanthidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Marshall Islands and Tonga, north to southern Japan, south to northwestern Australia. Habitat: marine.