xanthurus, Chaetodon Bleeker [P.] 1857:53 [Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo-Neêrlandicae v. 2 (art. 7); ref. 356] Ambon Island, Molucca Islands, Indonesia. Syntypes: (4). •Valid as Chaetodon xanthurus Bleeker 1857 -- (Burgess 1978:406 [ref. 700], Allen 1980:161 [ref. 22764], Ida in Masuda et al. 1984:183 [ref. 6441], Blum 1989:14 [ref. 37553], Allen 1997:152 [ref. 23977], Myers 1999:167 [ref. 23965], Pyle in Randall & Lim 2000:624 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:896 [ref. 25182], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:173 [ref. 25480], Allen 2000:106 [ref. 25868], Pyle 2001:3256 [ref. 26117], Nakabo 2002:896 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:42 [ref. 26830], Smith et al. 2003:304 [ref. 27125], Motomura et al. 2010:138 [ref. 31256], Zuo & Tang 2011:1004 [ref. 32151], Allen & Erdmann 2012:534 [ref. 31980]). Current status: Valid as Chaetodon xanthurus Bleeker 1857. Chaetodontidae: Chaetodontinae. Distribution: Western Pacific: East Indian Region, to West Papua, Indonesia and north to Ryukyu Islands. Habitat: marine.