passer, Holacanthus Valenciennes [A.] 1846:no p., Pl. 6 [Voyage autour du monde sur la frégate "la Vénus"; ref. 6165] Galápagos Islands. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-3559. Type catalog: Bauchot 1963:144 [ref. 20718]. Dates to publication in plate; corresponding text published as Valenciennes 1855:327 [ref. 4504]. •Valid as Holacanthus passer Valenciennes 1846 -- (Allen 1980:251 [ref. 22764], Allen & Robertson 1994:182 [ref. 22193], Krupp & Schneider in Fischer et al. 1995:1390 [ref. 22830], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:260 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:445 [ref. 24023], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:343 [ref. 24555], Thomson et al. 2000:149 [ref. 25640], Nelson et al. 2004:150 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:130 [ref. 37547], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:193 [ref. 30957], Page et al. 2013:155 [ref. 32708], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:147 [ref. 34871] as Holocanthus, Fourriére et al. 2016:447 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:610 [ref. 34923], Sánchez-Jiménez et al. 2018:S8 [ref. 36248], Clua & Planes 2019:286 [ref. 37091], Love et al. 2021:170 [ref. 39279], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:11 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Holacanthus passer Valenciennes 1846. Pomacanthidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of southern Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to Peru, including Guadalupe Island (Mexico), Clipperton Atoll (France) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.