mertensii, Chaetodon Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831:47 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 7; ref. 4881] No locality. No types known. Type catalog: Bauchot 1963:132-133 [ref. 20718]. Based on a drawing. •Valid as Chaetodon mertensii Cuvier 1831 -- (Burgess 1978:394 [ref. 700], Allen 1980:161 [ref. 22764], Ida in Masuda et al. 1984:183 [ref. 6441], Blum 1989:14 [ref. 37553], Randall et al. 1990:225 [ref. 15987], Kuiter 1993:223 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:163 [ref. 25479], Allen 1997:152 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:220 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:225 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:164 [ref. 23965], Johnson 1999:739 [ref. 25471], Randall 1999:17 [ref. 25829], Pyle in Randall & Lim 2000:623 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:896 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:297 [ref. 25191], Pyle 2001:3244 [ref. 26117], Nakabo 2002:896 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:42 [ref. 26830], Smith et al. 2003:304 [ref. 27125], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S112 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:630 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:18 [ref. 27624], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:290 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:316 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1292 [ref. 29090], Allen & Erdmann 2012:526 [ref. 31980], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:6 [ref. 33988], Allen & Erdmann 2024:559 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Chaetodon mertensii Cuvier 1831. Chaetodontidae: Chaetodontinae. Distribution: Western and central Pacific: Eastern Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, east to Vanuatu and Marquesas Islands, New Caledonia east to Easter Island. Habitat: marine.