canaliculatus, Chaetodon Park [M.] 1797:33 [The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London v. 3 (art. 9); ref. 17801] Habitat in Sumatræ littore [Bengkulu Province, Sumatra, Indonesia, eastern Indian Ocean]. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1863.11.12.17 (dry, right half skin). Type catalog: Wheeler 1974:475 [ref. 31545]. •Valid as Siganus canaliculatus (Park 1797) -- (Kishimoto in Masuda et al. 1984:233 [ref. 6441], Allen & Swainston 1988:138 [ref. 25477], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:544 [ref. 25598], Randall et al. 1990:437 [ref. 15987], Woodland 1990:51 [ref. 19220], Adams & Woodland 1994:373 [ref. 23562], Krishnan & Mishra 1994:298 [ref. 24014], Randall 1995:384 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:544 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:222 [ref. 23977], Carpenter et al. 1997:219 [ref. 23922], Kuiter 1997:376 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:437 [ref. 25919], Johnson 1999:750 [ref. 25471], Woodland in Randall & Lim 2000:641 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:440 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:263 [ref. 25480], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:187 [ref. 25703], Allen 2000:122 [ref. 25868], Matsuura & Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:291 [ref. 27511], Hutchins 2001:45 [ref. 25847], Kuiter & Debelius 2001:154 [ref. 26232], Woodland 2001:3633 [ref. 26300], Choi et al. 2003:414, 668 [ref. 26218], Allen & Adrim 2003:62 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S120 [ref. 27377], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:44 [ref. 27712], Adrim et al. 2004:126 [ref. 27715], Allen et al. 2006:1724 [ref. 29090], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1007 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:212 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:440 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:198 [ref. 34464], Psomadakis et al. 2015:305 [ref. 34104], Ali et al. 2018:339 [ref. 36183], Jawad et al. 2018:121 [ref. 36262], Suresh et al. 2018:298 [ref. 36495], Eagderi et al. 2019:110 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:297 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:108 [ref. 36871] as cf. canaliculatus, Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 25 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:554 [ref. 37272], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:263 [ref. 41223], Woodland 2022:212 [ref. 40143], Hasan et al. 2023:2212 [ref. 40412], Vilasri et al. 2023:93 [ref. 40764]). Current status: Valid as Siganus canaliculatus (Park 1797). Siganidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman east to Palau, Yap and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to northern Australia Habitat: brackish, marine.