mitratus, Chaetodon Günther [A.] 1860:16 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 2; ref. 1963] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1842.7.26.14 (stuffed and mounted). •Valid as Chaetodon mitratus Günther 1860 -- (Burgess 1978:374 [ref. 700], Allen 1980:162 [ref. 22764], Yamakawa & Tameka in Okamura et al. 1982:250 [ref. 8256], Blum 1989:13 [ref. 37553], Winterbottom et al. 1989:43 [ref. 13251], Fricke 1999:335 [ref. 24106], Allen 2000:89 [ref. 37268], Smith et al. 2003:304 [ref. 27125], Randall 2005:320 [ref. 28239], Fricke et al. 2009:73 [ref. 30213], Allen & Erdmann 2012:526 [ref. 31980], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:157 [ref. 40104], Tea et al. 2020:3 [ref. 37258], Durville et al. 2021:313 [ref. 38802], Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:458 [ref. 39746]). Current status: Valid as Chaetodon mitratus Günther 1860. Chaetodontidae: Chaetodontinae. Distribution: Indian Ocean: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa (Mozambique), Seychelles, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Andaman Sea, Christmas Island and Cocos-Keeling Islands (Australia). Habitat: marine.