ocellatus, Chaetodon Bloch [M. E.] (ex Seba) 1787:105, Pl. 211 (fig. 2) [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 3; ref. 468] "East Indies" [actual is West Indies]. No types known. Based on the “Chaetodon macrolepidotus, albescens“ of Seba 1759:67 (no. 11), Pl. 25 (fig. 11) [ref. 18716]. On p. 78 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 6 [ref. 21381]. •Valid as Chaetodon ocellatus Bloch 1787 -- (Burgess 1978:733 [ref. 700], Allen 1980:159 [ref. 22764], Matsuura in Uyeno et al. 1983:387 [ref. 14275], Robins & Ray 1986:193 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:394 [ref. 25518], Blum 1989:13 [ref. 37553], McAllister 1990:152 [ref. 14674], Boschung 1992:149 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1993:335 [ref. 24474], Murdy et al. 1997:225 [ref. 23144], Aguilera 1998:51 [ref. 24221], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:389 [ref. 24550], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:274 [ref. 25013], Nakabo 2000:888 [ref. 25182], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:163 [ref. 27754], Rocha & Rosa 2001:990 [ref. 25909], Camargo & Isaac 2001:141 [ref. 27639], McBride in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:446 [ref. 26158], Burgess 2003:1667 [ref. 27101], Smith et al. 2003:303 [ref. 27125], Moura & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:90 [ref. 27192], Smith et al. 2003:39 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:149 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:462 [ref. 28815], Page et al. 2013:154 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:59 [ref. 33341] dated 1778, Robertson et al. 2016:146 [ref. 34961], Carneiro et al. 2019:278 [ref. 37250], Robertson et al. 2020:152 [ref. 38098], Carvalho-Filho et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:546 [ref. 38945], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:77 [ref. 38844], Bennema & van Moorsel 2022:69 [ref. 39585], Carvalho-Filho 2023:187 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Chaetodon ocellatus Bloch 1787. Chaetodontidae: Chaetodontinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Maine (U.S.A.) and Bermuda south to São Paulo (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. IUCN (2010): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.