doliatus, Siganus Guérin-Méneville [F. E.] 1829-38:22, Poissons Pl. 35 (fig. 1) [Iconographie du Règne animal de G. Cuvier IV, Poissons; ref. 18162] Coast of Buru Island, near New Guinea, Indonesia; Vanikoro Island, Santa Cruz Islands, southwestern Pacific. Syntypes: MNHN A-6947 (1) Vanikoro, Solomon Islands, MNHN A-6948 (1) Buru Island, Indonesia. Type information: Bauchot 1965:572 [ref. 19223]. Validated from caption to figure above, published ca. 1830; also in Griffith 1834: Pl. 33 (fig. 1) (see Woodland 1990:83-84 [ref. 19220] for details and for authorship). First written description appeared in Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835:132 [ref. 1004] as Amphacanthus doliatus. •Valid as Siganus doliatus Guérin-Méneville 1829-38 -- (Randall et al. 1990:436 [ref. 15987], Woodland 1990:81 [ref. 19220], Allen 1997:222 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:378 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:436 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:266 [ref. 23965], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:441 [ref. 25191], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:104 [ref. 26368], Hutchins 2001:45 [ref. 25847], Kuiter & Debelius 2001:166 [ref. 26232], Woodland 2001:3635 [ref. 26300] dated 1830 with author as Cuvier, Allen & Adrim 2003:62 [ref. 26830] dated 1830 with author as Cuvier, Matsuura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:198 [ref. 27510] dated 1830 with author as Cuvier, Randall et al. 2004:30 [ref. 27624] dated 1830 with author as Cuvier, Randall 2005:600 [ref. 28239] with author as Cuvier, Allen et al. 2006:1724 [ref. 29090] with author as Cuvier, Allen & Erdmann 2012:1009 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:212 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:179 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2019:297 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Siganus doliatus Guérin-Méneville 1829-38. Siganidae. Distribution: Southeastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Indonesia east to Tonga, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.