zonatus, Ephippus Girard [C. F.] 1858:110 [General report upon zoology of the several Pacific railroad routes, 1857; ref. 4911] Off San Diego, California, U.S.A. Syntypes: USNM 690 (now 1). •Valid as Chaetodipterus zonatus (Girard 1858) -- (Hiyama in Kumada 1937:53 [ref. 39147], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:224 [ref. 9277], Allen & Robertson 1994:178 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:136 [ref. 23101], Schneider in Fischer et al. 1995:1090 [ref. 22829], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:136 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:563 [ref. 24023], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:339 [ref. 24555], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:456 [ref. 24550], Thomson et al. 2000:143 [ref. 25640], Kuiter & Debelius 2001:202 [ref. 26232], Nelson et al. 2004:174 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:164 [ref. 37547], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:194 [ref. 30957], Page et al. 2013:179 [ref. 32708], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:150 [ref. 34871], Fourriére et al. 2016:450 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:611 [ref. 34923], Kells et al. 2016:310 [ref. 35888], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:92 [ref. 35859], González-Murcia et al. 2019:307 [ref. 36544], Love et al. 2021:208 [ref. 39279], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:291 [ref. 40816], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:12 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Chaetodipterus zonatus (Girard 1858). Ephippidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: southern California (U.S.A.) south to Peru, including Gulf of California (Mexico). Habitat: marine.