forsteri, Grammistes Schneider [J. G.] in Bloch & Schneider 1801:191 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] S. Christinae seu Waitaho [Vaitahu, Tahuata Island, Marquesas Islands, South Pacific]. Holotype: ?BMNH 1961.2.27.1. Name attributable to Schneider, description taken from Forster manuscript (reproduced as Perca taeniata in Lichtenstein 1844:224-225 [ref. 17531]). Based on Perca taeniatus Forster MS, v. 3:14. •Valid as Paracirrhites forsteri (Schneider 1801) -- (Randall 1963:406 [ref. 3599], Araga in Masuda et al. 1984:199 [ref. 6441], Randall 1986:666 [ref. 5706], Allen & Swainston 1988:108 [ref. 25477], Winterbottom et al. 1989:50 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:289 [ref. 15987], Francis & Randall 1993:122 [ref. 20996], Kuiter 1993:254 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:164 [ref. 25479], Goren & Dor 1994:51 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:150 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:174 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:248 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:289 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:120 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:356 [ref. 24106], Randall 1999:13 [ref. 25829], Allen 2000:87 [ref. 37268], Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:625 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:911 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:332 [ref. 25191], Randall & Earle 2000:12 [ref. 25806], Allen 2000:98 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:38 [ref. 25847], Randall 2001:3327 [ref. 26128], Nakabo 2002:911 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:44 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S112 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:622 [ref. 27495] with author as Bloch, Lobel & Lobel 2004:70 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:13 [ref. 27624] with authorship as Bloch & Schneider, Randall 2005:178 [ref. 28239] with authorship as Bloch & Schneider, Mundy 2005:417 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:1347 [ref. 29090], Randall 2007:204 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:76 [ref. 30213], Satapoomin 2009:199 [ref. 30463], Motomura et al. 2010:144 [ref. 31256], Caratini & Soriano 2011:87 [ref. 39915] as forteri, Allen & Erdmann 2012:316 [ref. 31980], Gaither & Randall 2012:223 [ref. 32260], Fricke et al. 2013:263 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2014:111 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:6 [ref. 33988], Koeda et al. 2016:64 [ref. 35333], Koeda et al. 2016:9 [ref. 35354], Fricke et al. 2018:249 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:118 [ref. 36273], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:131 [ref. 40104], Fricke et al. 2019:203 [ref. 36673], Hoschke et al. 2019:159 [ref. 36626], Zajonz et al. 2019:72 [ref. 36871], Donaldson & Randall 2022:82 [ref. 39891], Mochizuki et al. 2022:69 [ref. 39927]). Current status: Valid as Paracirrhites forsteri (Schneider 1801). Cirrhitidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa (Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti), Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Comoros, Madagascar, Saint Brandon's Shoals (Cargados Carajos) and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Pitcairn Group, north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to Rottnest Island (Western Australia), New South Wales (Australia), Lord Howe Island (Australia) and Austral Islands (French Polynesia). Habitat: marine.