rostratus, Chaetodon Linnaeus [C.] 1758:273 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] In Indiis [Indonesia]. Syntypes: BMNH 1853.11.12.63 [Gronovius coll.] (1, skin), NRM 54 (1, poor condition). Type catalog: Wheeler 1958:224-225 [ref. 13434], Fernholm & Wheeler 1983:249-250 [ref. 20707]. •Valid as Chelmo rostratus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Condé & Terver 1974:1 [ref. 37209]). •Valid as Chelmon rostratus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Burgess 1978:118 [ref. 700], Allen 1980:162 [ref. 22764], Ida in Masuda et al. 1984:183 [ref. 6441], Blum 1989:12 [ref. 37553], Randall et al. 1990:231 [ref. 15987], Kuiter 1993:219 [ref. 23929], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:408 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:154 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:116 [ref. 26476], Kuiter 1997:208 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:231 [ref. 25919], Fricke 1999:341 [ref. 24106], Johnson 1999:740 [ref. 25471], Pyle in Randall & Lim 2000:624 [ref. 25122], Allen 2000:106 [ref. 25868], Nakabo 2000:886 [ref. 25182], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:102 [ref. 26368], Pyle 2001:3258 [ref. 26117], Nakabo 2002:886 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:42 [ref. 26830], Senou et al. 2003:2 [ref. 25052], Smith et al. 2003:302 [ref. 27125], Adrim et al. 2004:122 [ref. 27715], Allen et al. 2006:1296 [ref. 29090], Satapoomin 2009:189 [ref. 30463], Zuo & Tang 2011:1003 [ref. 32151], Allen & Erdmann 2012:535 [ref. 31980], Satapoomin in Kimura et al. 2018:210 [ref. 36460], Fricke et al. 2019:190 [ref. 36673], Koeda in Motomura et al. 2021:39 [ref. 38121], Farhana-Azmi et al. 2022:7 [ref. 40448], Allen & Erdmann 2024:569 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Chelmon rostratus (Linnaeus 1758). Chaetodontidae: Heniochinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa and Mauritius (Mascarenes) east to Philippines, New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) and Solomon Islands, north to southern Japan, south to northern Great Barrier Reef (Queensland, Australia). Habitat: marine.