caudovittatus, Holacanthus Günther [A.] 1860:44 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 2; ref. 1963] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1960.6.22.2 (dry). Spelled caudavittatus by Bleeker 1877:22 [ref. 17113]. •Valid as Genicanthus caudovittatus (Günther 1860) -- (Allen 1980:250 [ref. 22764], Dor 1984:170 [ref. 29757], Smith & Heemstra 1986:625 [ref. 5714], Goren & Dor 1994:48 [ref. 25356], Anderson et al. 1998:25 [ref. 23611], Fricke 1999:348 [ref. 24106], Allen & Adrim 2002:42 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S112 [ref. 27377], Fricke et al. 2009:75 [ref. 30213], Allen & Erdmann 2012:555 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2018:242 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:111 [ref. 36273], Tea et al. 2020:3 [ref. 37258], Durville et al. 2021:313 [ref. 38802], Heemstra 2022:437 [ref. 39850], Allen & Erdmann 2024:589 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Genicanthus caudovittatus (Günther 1860). Pomacanthidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indian Ocean: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Andaman Sea, Sumatra and Bali (western Indonesia). Habitat: marine.