punctatofasciatus, Chaetodon Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831:28 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 7; ref. 4881] No locality. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-9929. Type catalog: Bauchot 1963:127 [ref. 20718]. Originally as punctato-fasciatus. •Valid as Chaetodon punctatofasciatus Cuvier 1831 -- (Burgess 1978:716 [ref. 700], Allen 1980:159 [ref. 22764], Ida in Masuda et al. 1984:185 [ref. 6441], Allen & Swainston 1988:98 [ref. 25477], Blum 1989:14 [ref. 37553], Randall et al. 1990:227 [ref. 15987], Kuiter 1993:224 [ref. 23929], Allen 1997:150 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:123 [ref. 26476], Kuiter 1997:220 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:227 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:165 [ref. 23965], Pyle in Randall & Lim 2000:623 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:892 [ref. 25182], Allen 2000:106 [ref. 25868], Allen 2000:89 [ref. 37268], Hutchins 2001:265 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:36 [ref. 25847], Pyle 2001:3248 [ref. 26117], Nakabo 2002:892 [ref. 26193], Smith et al. 2003:304 [ref. 27125], Myers & Donaldson 2003:630 [ref. 27495], Lobel & Lobel 2004:72 [ref. 27576], Randall 2005:317 [ref. 28239], McCosker & Stewart 2006:90 [ref. 28702], Allen et al. 2006:1293 [ref. 29090], Motomura et al. 2010:137 [ref. 31256], Zuo & Tang 2011:1004 [ref. 32151], Allen & Erdmann 2012:529 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:101 [ref. 33932], Koeda et al. 2016:55 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2019:187 [ref. 36673], Fujiwara et al. 2020:33 [ref. 38631], Allen & Erdmann 2024:563 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Chaetodon punctatofasciatus Cuvier 1831. Chaetodontidae: Chaetodontinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) and Malaysia east to Line Islands, north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan) and Ogasawara Islands, south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.