vittatus, Myripristis Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831:492 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 7; ref. 4881] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-7588. Type catalog: Bauchot 1970:23 [ref. 20740]. •Valid as Myripristis vittatus Valenciennes 1831 -- (Greenfield 1974:18 [ref. 7142], Shimizu in Masuda et al. 1984:113 [ref. 6441], Paxton et al. 1989:378 [ref. 12442], Winterbottom et al. 1989:17 [ref. 13251], Kotlyar 1996:89 [ref. 23292], Kotlyar 1998:208 [ref. 24674], Allen 2000:85 [ref. 37268]). •Valid as Myripristis vittata Valenciennes 1831 -- (Randall & Heemstra 1986:425 [ref. 5707], Randall et al. 1990:63 [ref. 15987], Chen et al. 1990:256 [ref. 16678], Randall et al. 1993:227 [ref. 21003], Randall & Greenfield 1996:52 [ref. 22543], Allen 1997:68 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:30 [ref. 26476] with author as Cuvier, Kuiter 1997:64 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:63 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:81 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:131 [ref. 24106], Randall & Greenfield 1999:2255 [ref. 24790], Nakabo 2000:495 [ref. 25086], Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:602 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:143 [ref. 25191], Randall & Earle 2000:9 [ref. 25806], Hutchins 2001:25 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:495 [ref. 26001] with author as Cuvier, Allen & Adrim 2003:27 [ref. 26830] with author as Cuvier, Randall et al. 2004:9 [ref. 27624] with author as Cuvier, Randall 2005:91 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:308 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:779 [ref. 29066], Randall 2007:149 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:34 [ref. 30213], Fricke et al. 2011:373 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:172 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:252 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2014:42 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:5 [ref. 33988], Eguchi & Motomura 2016:77 [ref. 34690], Koeda et al. 2016:16 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2018:114 [ref. 35805], Fricke et al. 2019:82 [ref. 36673], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 9 [ref. 38321], Durville et al. 2021:310 [ref. 38802], Randall & Heemstra 2022:407 [ref. 39719], Allen & Erdmann 2024:189 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Myripristis vittata Valenciennes 1831. Holocentridae: Myripristinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Aliwal Shoal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia), New Caledonia and Tonga. Habitat: marine.
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