tricolor, Chaetodon Bloch [M. E.] (ex Markgraf von Liebstadt) 1795:103, Pl. 425 [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 9; ref. 464] Northern Atlantic coast of Brazil. Lectotype: ZMB 1302. Paralectotypes: ZMB 8571 (1, dry, lost). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:118 [ref. 24282]. Not Pl. 426 as stated in text. On p. 97 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 12 [ref. 21381]. Lectotype selected by Paepke 1999:118 [ref. 24282]. Based on the 'Acaravna brasiliensibus' of Markgraf von Liebstadt 1648:144, fig. [ref. 30347]. •Valid as Holacanthus tricolor (Bloch 1795) -- (Allen 1980:251 [ref. 22764], Matsuura in Uyeno et al. 1983:393 [ref. 14275], Robins & Ray 1986:195 [ref. 23100], Boschung 1992:150 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:382 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1993:342 [ref. 24474], Aguilera 1998:51 [ref. 24221], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:278 [ref. 25013], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:163 [ref. 27754], Gasparini & Floeter 2001:1645 [ref. 25634], Collette et al. 2003:112 [ref. 26784], Burgess 2003:1681 [ref. 27101], Moura & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:90 [ref. 27192], Smith et al. 2003:40 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:150 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:478 [ref. 28815], Page et al. 2013:155 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:60 [ref. 33341], Pinheiro et al. 2015:22 [ref. 34324], Robertson et al. 2016:146 [ref. 34961], Robertson et al. 2020:160 [ref. 38098], Carvalho-Filho et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:553 [ref. 38945], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:77 [ref. 38844], Bennema & van Moorsel 2022:69 [ref. 39585], Carvalho-Filho 2023:191 [ref. 40480], Hoff et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40463], Page et al. 2023:162 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Holacanthus tricolor (Bloch 1795). Pomacanthidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Georgia (U.S.A.) and Bermuda south to Santa Catarinao (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. IUCN (2010): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.