Chaetodon Linnaeus [C.] 1758:272 Masc. Chaetodon capistratus Linnaeus 1758. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Jordan & Gilbert 1883:614 [ref. 2476]. Chetodon of Bonnaterre 1788:79 [ref. 4940] and Rafinesque 1815:83 [ref. 3584] are incorrect subsequent spellings. Misspelled Choetodon by Anonymous [Cabrera, Pérez & Haenseler] 1817:4 [ref. 17319], see Graells 1887:178 [ref. 30438]. •Valid as Chaetodon Linnaeus 1758 -- (Monod 1973:422 [ref. 7193], Burgess 1978:653 [ref. 700], Ida in Masuda et al. 1984:183 [ref. 6441], Maugé & Bauchot 1984:470 [ref. 6614], Nalbant in Whitehead et al. 1986:914 [ref. 13676], Heemstra 1986:627 [ref. 5660], Nalbant 1986:169 [ref. 6135], Blum 1989:13 [ref. 37553], Gomon et al. 1994:625 [ref. 22532], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:389 [ref. 24550], Pyle 2001:3226 [ref. 26117], Burgess 2003:1664 [ref. 27101], Smith et al. 2003:303 [ref. 27125] with subgenera, Parin 2003:S15 [ref. 28536], Allen et al. 2006:1288 [ref. 29090], Craig et al. 2008:159 [ref. 29754], Allen & Gomon 2008:608 [ref. 30653], Parin et al. 2014:376 [ref. 33547], Trnski 2015:1301 [ref. 34198], Motomura et al. 2017:167 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:234 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:108 [ref. 36273], Brown et al. 2019:177 [ref. 36444], Fricke et al. 2019:181 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Chaetodon Linnaeus 1758. Chaetodontidae: Chaetodontinae.