humeralis, Chaetodon Günther [A.] 1860:19 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 2; ref. 1963] "Sandwich Islands" [error for Central America]. Syntypes: (5) BMNH 1855.9.19.345-346 (2), 1855.9.19.534-535 (2) Haslar coll., BMNH 1855.9.19.576 (1) Haslar coll. •Valid as Chaetodon humeralis Günther 1860 -- (Hiyama in Kumada 1937:53 [ref. 39147], Burgess 1978:670 [ref. 700], Allen 1980:158 [ref. 22764], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:225 [ref. 9277], Blum 1989:13 [ref. 37553], Pequeño 1989:62 [ref. 14125], Allen & Robertson 1994:180 [ref. 22193], Schneider in Fischer et al. 1995:1002 [ref. 22829], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:438 [ref. 24023], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:102 [ref. 24545], De la Cruz-Agüero & Cota-Gómez 1998:357 [ref. 23520], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:340 [ref. 24555], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:390 [ref. 24550], Lea & Rosenblatt 2000:123 [ref. 25206], Thomson et al. 2000:151 [ref. 25640], Smith et al. 2003:303 [ref. 27125], Nelson et al. 2004:149 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:130 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:394 [ref. 28379], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:193 [ref. 30957], Page et al. 2013:154 [ref. 32708], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:147 [ref. 34871], Fourriére et al. 2016:446 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:610 [ref. 34923], Kells et al. 2016:254 [ref. 35888], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:92 [ref. 35859], González-Murcia et al. 2019:303 [ref. 36544], Love et al. 2021:169 [ref. 39279], Grove et al. 2022:22 [ref. 41326], Barrientos et al. 2023:275 [ref. 41235], Page et al. 2023:162 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:336 [ref. 40816], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:11 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Chaetodon humeralis Günther 1860. Chaetodontidae: Chaetodontinae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: southern California (U.S.A.) south to Chile, including Gulf of California (Mexico) asnd Galapagos Islands (Ecuador); central Pacific: one record from Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.). IUCN (2009): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.