tripunctatus, Pomacentrus Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:421 [Histoire naturelle des poissons; ref. 999] Vanikoro Island, Santa Cruz Islands, southwestern Pacific. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-8245 (4). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1978:28 [ref. 20862]. Kottelat (2013) lists a freshwater record from the Philippines. •Synonym of Pomacentrus trilineatus Cuvier 1830 -- (Dor 1984:187 [ref. 29757]). •Valid as Pomacentrus tripunctatus Cuvier 1830 -- (Randall et al. 1990:280 [ref. 15987], Allen 1991:251 [ref. 19344], Randall 1995:267 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:471 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:172 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:280 [ref. 25919], Larson & Williams 1997:364 [ref. 23967], Suzuki et al. 1997:4 [ref. 24374], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:627 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:947 [ref. 25182], Allen 2000:111 [ref. 25868], Allen 2001:3345 [ref. 26132], Nakabo 2002:947 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:47 [ref. 26830], Allen & Wright 2003:136 [ref. 27247], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:142 [ref. 27510], Adrim et al. 2004:123 [ref. 27715], Allen et al. 2006:1467 [ref. 29090], Allen & Erdmann 2009:125 [ref. 30681], Allen et al. 2011:41 [ref. 31134], Allen & Erdmann 2012:625 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:172-173 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:378 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:124 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2019:221 [ref. 36673], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 24 [ref. 38321], Habib et al. 2020:421 [ref. 37844], Parenti 2021:78 [ref. 38418], Allen 2022:160 [ref. 39911], Hasan et al. 2023:2212 [ref. 40412], Jamandre 2023:173 [ref. 40455], Allen & Erdmann 2024:680 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Pomacentrus tripunctatus Cuvier 1830. Pomacentridae: Pomacentrinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh east to Philippines, New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) and Vanuatu, north to Yaeyama Islands (Japan), south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.