puellus, Amphacanthus Schlegel [H.] 1852:39, Pl. 1 (fig. 2) [Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde v. 1 (Pt. 5); ref. 18696] Ternate, Molucca Islands, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): RMNH 5145. •Valid as Siganus puellus (Schlegel 1852) -- (Kishimoto in Masuda et al. 1984:233 [ref. 6441], Randall et al. 1990:438 [ref. 15987], Woodland 1990:63 [ref. 19220], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:548 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:224 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:378 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:438 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:267 [ref. 23965], Woodland in Randall & Lim 2000:641 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1317 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:442 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:264 [ref. 25480], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:104 [ref. 26368], Hutchins 2001:45 [ref. 25847], Kuiter & Debelius 2001:165 [ref. 26232], Woodland 2001:3640 [ref. 26300], Nakabo 2002:1317 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:62 [ref. 26830], Matsuura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:199 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:30 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:126 [ref. 27715], Randall 2005:601 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:176 [ref. 29090], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1011 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:213 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:180 [ref. 33932], Motomura et al. 2017:203 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2019:298 [ref. 36673], Furuhashi et al. 2021:8 [ref. 38449], Farhana-Azmi et al. 2022:11 [ref. 40448]). Current status: Valid as Siganus puellus (Schlegel 1852). Siganidae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Cocos-Keeling Islands and Indonesia east to Marshall Islands and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.