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Species in the genus Cirrhitus: [ 12 ] records

albopunctatus, Cirrhitus Schultz [L. P.] 1950:(547) 548, Pl. 13 (fig. A) [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 100 (no. 3270); ref. 10146] Niuafoou Island, Tonga Islands, central Pacific. Holotype: USNM 91883. Paratypes: MCZ 37256 [ex USNM 91881] (1). •Valid as Cirrhitus albopunctatus Schultz 1950 -- (Randall 1963:398 [ref. 3599], Randall 2001:3325 [ref. 26128], Randall et al. 2004:13 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:175 [ref. 28239]). Current status: Valid as Cirrhitus albopunctatus Schultz 1950. Cirrhitidae. Distribution: Southwest Pacific: Tonga. Habitat: marine.

alternatus, Cirrhitus Gill [T. N.] 1862:106, 107 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 14 (nos 3-4); ref. 1658] Hawaiian Islands. •Synonym of Cirrhitus pinnulatus (Forster 1801) -- (Randall 1963:396 [ref. 3599], Randall 2001:3326 [ref. 26128], Randall 2005:175 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:416 [ref. 28379], Randall 2007:203 [ref. 30952]). •Synonym of Cirrhitus pinnulatus subspecies maculosus Bennett 1828 -- (Gaither & Randall 2013:191 [ref. 32383]). Current status: Synonym of Cirrhitus pinnulatus (Forster 1801). Cirrhitidae. Habitat: marine.

atlanticus, Cirrhites Osório [B.] 1893:138 [Jornal de Sciências Mathemáticas, Physicas e Naturaes, Lisboa (Ser. 2) v. 3 (no. 10); ref. 20570] Ilheo das Rolas, Gulf of Guinea. Holotype: MB 150 (lost in fire 1978). Original genus should have been spelled Cirrhitus. •Valid as Cirrhitus atlanticus Osório 1893 -- (Randall 1963:402 [ref. 3599], Randall 1990:851 [ref. 19149], Afonso et al. 1999:76 [ref. 25466], Wirtz et al. 2007:36 [ref. 30263], Gaither & Randall 2013:189 [ref. 32383], Rocha in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2689 [ref. 34618], Reiner 2019:233 [ref. 38139], Fermon et al. 2022:297 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Cirrhitus atlanticus Osório 1893. Cirrhitidae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Ghana, Annobón Island (Equatorial Guinea), and São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: marine.

betaurus, Cirrhitus Gill [T. N.] 1862:259 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 14; ref. 4909] Baja California, Mexico. Holotype (unique): USNM. •Synonym of Cirrhitus rivulatus Valenciennes 1846 -- (Randall 1963:401 [ref. 3599]). Current status: Synonym of Cirrhitus rivulatus Valenciennes 1846. Cirrhitidae. Habitat: marine.

maculatus, Cirrhitus Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1803:2, 3 [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Lacepède) v. 5; ref. 4930] Mauritius. Holotype: MNHN 1988-1300 [ex MNHN A-5499]. Type catalog: Bauchot & Desoutter 1989:30 [ref. 15502]. •Synonym of Cirrhitus pinnulatus pinnulatus (Forster 1801) -- (Gaither & Randall 2013:192 [ref. 32383]). •Synonym of Cirrhitus pinnulatus (Forster 1801) -- (Randall 1963:396 [ref. 3599], Dor 1984:189 [ref. 29757], Fricke 1999:353 [ref. 24106], Mundy 2005:416 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:1346 [ref. 29090], Fricke et al. 2018:248 [ref. 35805]). Current status: Synonym of Cirrhitus pinnulatus (Forster 1801). Cirrhitidae. Habitat: marine.

maculosus, Cirrhites Bennett [E. T.] 1828:38 [Zoological Journal, London v. 4 (no. 13, art. 3); ref. 16783] Hawaiian Islands. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. •Synonym of Cirrhitus pinnulatus (Forster 1801) -- (Mundy 2005:416 [ref. 28379]). •Synonym of Cirrhitus pinnulatus (Forster 1801) but a valid subspecies maculosus Bennett 1828 -- (Gaither & Randall 2013:191 [ref. 32383]). Current status: Synonym of Cirrhitus pinnulatus (Forster 1801). Cirrhitidae. Distribution: Hawaiian population, subspecies maculosus. Habitat: marine.

maculosus, Cirrhitus Rüppell [W. P. E. S.] 1828:13, Pl. 4 (fig. 1) [Atlas zu der Reise im nördlichen Africa. Fische des Rothen Meeres; ref. 3843] Red Sea. Not an independent species descripion, but a misidentification and misspelling of Cirrhitus maculatus Lacepède 1801. Also preoccupied by Cirrhites maculosus Bennett 1828. •In the synonymy of Cirrhitus spilotoceps Schultz 1950. 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Cirrhitus spilotoceps Schultz 1950. Cirrhitidae.

marmoratus, Labrus Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1801:438, 493, Pl. 5 (fig. 3) [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Lacepède) v. 3; ref. 2710] Indo Pacific. Holotype (unique): MNHN 1988-1300 [ex MNHN A-5449]. Type catalog: Bauchot & Desoutter 1989:30 [ref. 15502]. •Synonym of Cirrhitus pinnulatus (Forster 1801) -- (Randall 1963:396 [ref. 3599], Dor 1984:189 [ref. 29757], Fricke 1999:353 [ref. 24106], Mundy 2005:416 [ref. 28379]). •Synonym of Cirrhitus pinnulatus pinnulatus (Forster 1801) -- (Gaither & Randall 2013:192 [ref. 32383]). Current status: Synonym of Cirrhitus pinnulatus (Forster 1801). Cirrhitidae. Habitat: marine.

mossambicus, Cirrhitus Smith [J. L. B.] 1951:629, Fig. 1 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 12) v. 4 (no. 43) (art. 60); ref. 4081] Moçambique Island, Mozambique, western Indian Ocean. Holotype: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 162. Paratypes: (1) not researched. Not mentioned in Gaither & Randall 2013:189 [ref. 32383]. •Synonym of Cirrhitus punctatus Cuvier 1829 -- (Randall 1963:399 [ref. 3599], Randall 1986:665 [ref. 5706]). •Synonym of Cirrhitus pinnulatus (Forster 1801) -- (Randall 2001:7 [ref. 25616]). Current status: Synonym of Cirrhitus pinnulatus (Forster 1801). Cirrhitidae. Habitat: marine.

pinnulatus, Labrus Forster [J. R.] in Bloch & Schneider 1801:264 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Otahaitee [Tahiti, Society Islands, French Polynesia, South Pacific]. No types known. Author given as 'Schn.' (Schneider). Based on description in manuscript by Forster (Johann Reinhold Forster, 1729-1798, German explorer and naturalist of Cook's second voyage). •Valid as Cirrhites [sic] pinnulatus (Forster 1801) -- (Dor 1984:189 [ref. 29757]). •Valid as Cirrhitus pinnulatus (Forster 1801) with subspecies -- (Gaither & Randall 2013:192 [ref. 32383], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:6 [ref. 33988], Donaldson & Randall 2022:79 [ref. 39891]). •Valid as Cirrhitus pinnulatus (Forster 1801) -- (Randall 1963:396 [ref. 3599], Araga in Masuda et al. 1984:199 [ref. 6441], Randall 1986:665 [ref. 5706], Paulin et al. 1989:199 [ref. 24556], Winterbottom et al. 1989:49 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:286 [ref. 15987], Francis 1993:164 [ref. 25479], Goren & Dor 1994:51 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:150 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:172 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:145 [ref. 26476] with author as Bloch & Schneider, Randall et al. 1997:286 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:119 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:353 [ref. 24106], Randall 1999:13 [ref. 25829], Allen 2000:87 [ref. 37268], Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:625 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:910 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:330 [ref. 25191], Randall & Earle 2000:12 [ref. 25806], Allen 2000:98 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:38 [ref. 25847], Randall 2001:3326 [ref. 26128], Nakabo 2002:910 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:44 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S112 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:622 [ref. 27495] with author as Schneider, Lobel & Lobel 2004:70 [ref. 27576] with author as Schneider, Randall et al. 2004:13 [ref. 27624] with authors as Bloch & Schneider, Heemstra et al. 2004:3324 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:175 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:416 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:1345 [ref. 29090], Randall 2007:203 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:76 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:144 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:314 [ref. 31980], Gaither & Randall 2012:223 [ref. 32260], Fricke et al. 2013:263 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2014:110 [ref. 33932], Duffy & Ahyong 2015:115 [ref. 36167], Roberts 2015:1337 [ref. 34193], Koeda et al. 2016:63 [ref. 35333], Koeda et al. 2016:9 [ref. 35354], Fricke et al. 2018:248 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:118 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:202 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Cirrhitus pinnulatus (Forster 1801). Cirrhitidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa (Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya), Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Pitcairn Group, north to southern Japan, south to Kermadec Islands and Rapa (French Polynesia). Former Red Sea records are now assigned to C. spilotoceps Schultz 1950. Habitat: marine.

rivulatus, Cirrhites Valenciennes [A.] 1846:no p., Pl. 3 (fig. 1) [Voyage autour du monde sur la frégate "la Vénus"; ref. 6165] Galápagos Islands. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-5563 (dry). Type catalog: Bauchot & Desoutter 1989:12 [ref. 15502]. Dates to publication in plate; corresponding text published as Valenciennes 1855:309 [ref. 4504]. Original genus should have been spelled Cirrhitus. •Valid as Cirrhitus rivulatus Valenciennes 1846 -- (Randall 1963:401 [ref. 3599], Allen & Robertson 1994:193 [ref. 22193], Bussing & Lavenberg in Fischer et al. 1995:1009 [ref. 22829], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:107 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:450 [ref. 24023], Thomson et al. 2000:168 [ref. 25640], Nelson et al. 2004:151 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:132 [ref. 37547], Béarez & Séret 2009:149 [ref. 36646], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:193 [ref. 30957], Gaither & Randall 2013:189 [ref. 32383], Page et al. 2013:155 [ref. 32708], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:148 [ref. 34871], Fourriére et al. 2016:447 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:610 [ref. 34923], González-Murcia et al. 2019:303 [ref. 36544], Love et al. 2021:171 [ref. 39279], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:11 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Cirrhitus rivulatus Valenciennes 1846. Cirrhitidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of southern Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to Ecuador, including Gulf of California (Mexico) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.

spilotoceps, Cirrhitus Schultz [L. P.] 1950:(548) 551, Pl. 13 (fig. C) [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 100 (no. 3270); ref. 10146] Red Sea. Holotype: USNM 47598. Paratypes: MCZ 37228 [ex USNM 149583] (1), USNM 149583 (now 0). •Synonym of Cirrhitus pinnulatus (Forster 1801) -- (Randall 1963:396 [ref. 3599], Randall 2001:3326 [ref. 26128], Randall 2005:175 [ref. 28239], Randall 2007:203 [ref. 30952]). •Valid as Cirrhitus spilotoceps Schultz 1950 -- (Gaither & Randall 2013:193 [ref. 32383], Golani & Fricke 2018:118 [ref. 36273], Zajonz et al. 2019:71 [ref. 36871], Donaldson & Randall 2022:79 [ref. 39891]). Current status: Valid as Cirrhitus spilotoceps Schultz 1950. Cirrhitidae. Distribution: Red Sea; northwestern Indian Ocean: Socotra (Xemen), Gulf of Oman. Habitat: marine.