chinensis, Chaetodon Bloch [M. E.] 1790:5, Pl. 218 (fig. 1) [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 4; ref. 469] China. Holotype (unique): ZMB 1389. Type catalog: Paepke 1994:315 [ref. 21516], Paepke 1999:51 [ref. 24282]. On p. 5 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 7 [ref. 21381]. •Valid as Macropodus chinensis (Bloch 1790) -- (Okada 1961:744 [ref. 6363], Uyeno & Arai in Masuda et al. 1984:122 [ref. 6441], Wang 1984:95 [ref. 22951], Vierke 1986:102 [ref. 36452], Vierke 1988:146 [ref. 36453], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:467 [ref. 25598], Zhuo in Ding 1994:533 [ref. 21531], Zhu 1995:186 [ref. 25213], Cheng & Zhou 1997:401 [ref. 26385], Kim 1997:485 [ref. 24032], Wang et al. 1999:75 [ref. 24099], Nakabo 2000:1352 [ref. 25182], Matsuura et al. 2000:247 [ref. 26000], Wang et al. 2001:284 [ref. 26566], Nakabo 2002:1352 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:426, 679 [ref. 26218], Zhang et al. 2016:208 [ref. 34477], Guo 2021:887 [ref. 38618]). •Synonym of Macropodus opercularis (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Paepke 1990:74 [ref. 20168], Freyhof & Herder 2002:149 [ref. 26072], Naseka & Bogutskaya 2004:280 [ref. 27838], Kottelat 2013:454 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Macropodus opercularis (Linnaeus 1758). Osphronemidae: Macropodusinae. Distribution: Japan, Korea and China [if valid]. Habitat: freshwater.