nippon, Chaetodon Steindachner [F.] & Döderlein [L.] 1883:124 [Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 20 (no. 15) (for 14 June 1883); ref. 20490] Tokyo, Japan. Syntypes: (several) NMW 71094 (2), ?ZMB 12062 (1). Species illustrated and described in more detail in Steindachner & Döderlein 1883:23, Pl. 4 (fig. 2) [ref. 4247]. Type information (ZMB) from Amaoka & Fujii 1999:162 [ref. 26515]. •Valid as Chaetodon nippon Steindachner & Döderlein 1883 -- (Burgess 1978:386 [ref. 700], Allen 1980:162 [ref. 22764], Yamakawa & Tameka in Okamura et al. 1982:250 [ref. 8256], Ida in Masuda et al. 1984:185 [ref. 6441], Blum 1989:13 [ref. 37553], Pyle in Randall & Lim 2000:623 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:897 [ref. 25182] with author as Döderlein, Pyle 2001:3245 [ref. 26117], Nakabo 2002:897 [ref. 26193] with author as Döderlein, Choi et al. 2003:352, 624 [ref. 26218] with author as Döderlein, Smith et al. 2003:304 [ref. 27125], Motomura et al. 2010:137 [ref. 31256], Zuo & Tang 2011:1004 [ref. 32151], Mochizuki et al. 2022:68 [ref. 39927], Allen & Erdmann 2024:560 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Chaetodon nippon Steindachner & Döderlein 1883. Chaetodontidae: Chaetodontinae. Distribution: Western Pacific: Luzon (Philippines) and Taiwan north to southern sea of Japan (Korea, Japan), and Pacific coast of central Japan, Izu Islands (Japan) and Ogasawara Islands (Japan). IUCN (2010): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.