coelestis, Pomacentrus Jordan [D. S.] & Starks [E. C.] 1901:383, Pl. 21 [Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 3) v. 2 (nos 7-8); ref. 2523] Wakanoura, Kii Province, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, Inland Sea. Holotype (unique): CAS-SU 6434. Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:83 [ref. 12291]. •Valid as Pomacentrus coelestis Jordan & Starks 1901 -- (Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:195 [ref. 6441], Allen & Swainston 1988:106 [ref. 25477], Winterbottom et al. 1989:49 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:277 [ref. 15987], Allen 1991:250 [ref. 19344], Kuiter 1993:244 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:164 [ref. 25479], Lee & Kim 1996:33 [ref. 25726], Allen 1997:170 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:260 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:277 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:185 [ref. 23965], Johnson 1999:741 [ref. 25471], Allen 2000:90 [ref. 37268], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:627 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:946 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:324 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:197 [ref. 25480], Randall & Earle 2000:16 [ref. 25806], Allen 2000:110 [ref. 25868], Shinohara et al. 2000:180 [ref. 25987], Shimizu 2001:33 [ref. 25799], Hutchins 2001:267 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:37 [ref. 25847], Allen 2001:3355 [ref. 26132], Nakabo 2002:946 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:364, 634 [ref. 26218] dated 1900, Allen 2002:52 [ref. 26516], Allen & Adrim 2003:47 [ref. 26830], Allen & Wright 2003:136 [ref. 27247], Randall et al. 2004:21 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:123 [ref. 27715], Randall 2005:379 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1465 [ref. 29090], Motomura et al. 2010:157 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:615 [ref. 31980], Liu et al. 2013:8 [ref. 32931], Fricke et al. 2014:122 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:7 [ref. 33988], Motomura et al. 2015:26 [ref. 34709], Koeda et al. 2016:70 [ref. 35333], Koeda et al. 2016:12 [ref. 35354], Kwun et al. 2017:142 [ref. 37287], Bourjon et al. 2019:60 [ref. 36582], Fricke et al. 2019:219 [ref. 36673], Hoschke et al. 2019:158 [ref. 36626], Yoshigou 2019:194 [ref. 36714], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 23 [ref. 38321] misidentified, Kim et al. 2020:149 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:82 [ref. 37637], Matsunuma in Motomura et al. 2021:49 [ref. 38121], Parenti 2021:75 [ref. 38418], Allen & Erdmann 2024:668 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Pomacentrus coelestis Jordan & Starks 1901. Pomacentridae: Pomacentrinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Christmas Island (Australia), Malaysia and Indonesia east to the Line Islands and French Polynesia, north to southern Korea, central Japan and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Rottnest Island (Western Australia) and Merimbula (New South Wales, Australia). Habitat: marine.
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