melanopus, Chaetodon Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831:84 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 7; ref. 4881] Molucca Islands, Indonesia. Holotype: RMNH D485 (dry). Type catalog: Bauchot 1963:136 [ref. 20718]. •Valid as Coradion melanopus (Cuvier 1831) -- (Burgess 1978:162 [ref. 700], Allen 1980:162 [ref. 22764], Blum 1989:12 [ref. 37553], Allen 1997:154 [ref. 23977], Allen 2000:106 [ref. 25868], Pyle 2001:3259 [ref. 26117], Allen & Adrim 2003:43 [ref. 26830], Smith et al. 2003:302 [ref. 27125], Allen & Erdmann 2012:536 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:103 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2019:191 [ref. 36673], Allen & Erdmann 2024:570 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Coradion melanopus (Cuvier 1831). Chaetodontidae: Heniochinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Bali (Indonesia) east to New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) and Solomon Islands, north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan). Habitat: marine.