kleinii, Chaetodon Bloch [M. E.] 1790:7, Pl. 218 (fig. 2) [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 4; ref. 469] Ostindien [Indonesia]. Syntypes: (2) ZMB 1229 (1), 1231 (1 ex 2). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:59 [ref. 24282]; use of holotype [ZMB 1229] in the "Catalog of Fishes" 1998 may have established a lectotype. On p. 4 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 7 [ref. 21381]. •Valid as Chaetodon kleinii Bloch 1790 -- (Burgess 1978:699 [ref. 700], Allen 1980:158 [ref. 22764], Ida in Masuda et al. 1984:185 [ref. 6441], Heemstra 1986:629 [ref. 5660], Allen & Swainston 1988:96 [ref. 25477], Blum 1989:14 [ref. 37553], Winterbottom et al. 1989:42 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:223 [ref. 15987], Francis & Randall 1993:122 [ref. 20996], Kuiter 1993:222 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:162 [ref. 25479], Goren & Dor 1994:47 [ref. 25356], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:404 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:148 [ref. 23977], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:438 [ref. 24023] as kleini, Chen et al. 1997:120 [ref. 26476], Kuiter 1997:218 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:223 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:164 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:330 [ref. 24106], Johnson 1999:739 [ref. 25471], Allen 2000:89 [ref. 37268], Pyle in Randall & Lim 2000:623 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:896 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:296 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:165 [ref. 25480], Allen 2000:105 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:265 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:36 [ref. 25847], Pyle 2001:3242 [ref. 26117], Nakabo 2002:896 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:42 [ref. 26830], Smith et al. 2003:304 [ref. 27125], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S112 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:629 [ref. 27495], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:117 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:18 [ref. 27624], Heemstra et al. 2004:3323 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:289 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:313 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:395 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:1291 [ref. 29090], Randall 2007:281 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:72 [ref. 30213], Satapoomin 2009:186 [ref. 30463], Golani & Bogorodsky 2010:75 [ref. 35264], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:193 [ref. 30957], Motomura et al. 2010:135 [ref. 31256], Caratini & Soriano 2011:96 [ref. 39915], Zuo & Tang 2011:1003 [ref. 32151], Allen & Erdmann 2012:524 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:262 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2014:99 [ref. 33932], Motomura et al. 2017:167 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:236 [ref. 35805], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:155 [ref. 40104], Fricke et al. 2019:184 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:83 [ref. 36871], Durville et al. 2021:312 [ref. 38802], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:229 [ref. 41223], Grove et al. 2022:22 [ref. 41326], Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:452 [ref. 39746], Allen & Erdmann 2024:557 [ref. 40796], Fricke et al. 2024:69 [ref. 41255], Negoro & Motomura 2024:13 [ref. 41284]). Current status: Valid as Chaetodon kleinii Bloch 1790. Chaetodontidae: Chaetodontinae. Distribution: Indo-Pacific: Western Cape, eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), Line Islands (Kiribati) and Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Hokkaido (Japan), south to Western Australia, Lord Howe Island (Australia) and Tonga; eastern Pacific: Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.