Species that contain: Amblycirrhitus and bimacula [ 1 ] records

bimacula, Cirrhitoidea Jenkins [O. P.] 1903:489, Fig. 36 [Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission v. 22 (1902); ref. 2341] Honolulu, Oahu Island, Hawaiian Islands. Holotype: USNM 50702. Paratypes: CAS-SU 23313 (1). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:89 [ref. 12291]. •Valid as Amblycirrhitus bimacula (Jenkins 1903) -- (Randall 1963:427 [ref. 3599], Randall 1986:665 [ref. 5706], Allen & Swainston 1988:108 [ref. 25477], Winterbottom et al. 1989:49 [ref. 13251] as bimaculus, Randall et al. 1990:285 [ref. 15987], Senou et al. 1993:2 [ref. 24334], Allen 1997:174 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:285 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:119 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:351 [ref. 24106], Randall 1999:13 [ref. 25829], Allen 2000:98 [ref. 25868], Allen 2000:87 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:910 [ref. 25182], Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:625 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:38 [ref. 25847], Randall 2001:3325 [ref. 26128], Nakabo 2002:910 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:44 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:622 [ref. 27495] dated 1904, Lobel & Lobel 2004:70 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:12 [ref. 27624], Heemstra et al. 2004:3324 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:173 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:414 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:1344 [ref. 29090], Randall 2007:202 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:75 [ref. 30213], Allen & Erdmann 2012:312 [ref. 31980], Gaither & Randall 2012:223 [ref. 32260], Fricke et al. 2013:263 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2014:108 [ref. 33932], Koeda et al. 2016:63 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2018:247 [ref. 35805], Donaldson & Randall 2022:74 [ref. 39891]). Current status: Valid as Amblycirrhitus bimacula (Jenkins 1903). Cirrhitidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa (Mozambiquem Tanzania, Kenya), Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Comoros, Madagascar, Saint Brandon's Shoals (Cargados Carajos) and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Pitcairn Group, north to Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands(Japan) and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.