guttatissimus, Chaetodon Bennett [E. T.] 1833:183 [Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 1832 (pt 2); ref. 16789] Sri Lanka, Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1852.2.9.13.152 [ex Zool. Zoc.]. •Valid as Chaetodon guttatissimus Bennett 1833 -- (Burgess 1978:722 [ref. 700], Allen 1980:158 [ref. 22764], Heemstra 1986:628 [ref. 5660], Blum 1989:14 [ref. 37553], Winterbottom et al. 1989:42 [ref. 13251], Goren & Dor 1994:47 [ref. 25356], Allen 1997:152 [ref. 23977], Myers 1999:165 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:329 [ref. 24106], Allen 2000:89 [ref. 37268], Pyle 2001:3241 [ref. 26117] dated 1832, Allen & Adrim 2003:42 [ref. 26830], Smith et al. 2003:304 [ref. 27125], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S111 [ref. 27377], Heemstra et al. 2004:3323 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:287 [ref. 28072], Fricke et al. 2009:72 [ref. 30213], Satapoomin 2009:185 [ref. 30463], Caratini & Soriano 2011:99 [ref. 39915], Allen & Erdmann 2012:523 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:262 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2018:235 [ref. 35805], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:155 [ref. 40104], Zajonz et al. 2019:83 [ref. 36871], Durville et al. 2021:312 [ref. 38802], Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:452 [ref. 39746], Allen & Erdmann 2024:556 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Chaetodon guttatissimus Bennett 1833. Chaetodontidae: Chaetodontinae. Distribution: Indian Ocean: Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Comoros, Madagascar, Saint Brandon's Shoals (Cargados Carajos) and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mazritius, Rodrigues) east to Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) and Andaman Sea coast of Thailand. Habitat: marine.