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.