Aluterus Cloquet [H.] 1816:135 Masc. Balistes monoceros Linnaeus 1758. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Jordan 1917:98 [ref. 2407]. Based on "Les Alutères" Cuvier 1816, first latinized by Cloquet (Dec.) 1816. Misspelled Aleuteres, Aleuterius, Alutarius, Aluterius, Aleisterius and Alutera; see also Alutera Oken 1817. •Valid as Alutera Cloquet 1816 -- (Berry & Vogele 1961:64 [ref. 19549], Matsuura 1979:165 [ref. 7019], Tyler 1980:178 [ref. 4477], Arai 1983:199 [ref. 14249]). •Valid as Aluterus Cloquet 1816 -- (Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:361 [ref. 6441], Hutchins 1986:883 [ref. 5673], Lindberg et al. 1997:70 [ref. 23547], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:506 [ref. 24550], Hutchins 2001:3930 [ref. 26316], Matsuura 2003:1971 [ref. 27119], Parin 2003:S33 [ref. 28536], Allen et al. 2006:1881 [ref. 29098], Matsuura 2014:11 [ref. 33576], Parin et al. 2014:550 [ref. 33547], Stewart & Roberts 2015:1718 [ref. 34322], Motomura et al. 2017:231 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:379 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:178 [ref. 36273], Brown et al. 2019:183 [ref. 36444], Fricke et al. 2019:326 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Aluterus Cloquet 1816. Monacanthidae.