baronessa, Chaetodon Cuvier [G.] 1829:190 [Le Règne Animal (Edition 2) v. 2; ref. 995] No locality. No types known. Type catalog: Bauchot 1963:131 [ref. 20718]. Based on Renard v. 1, xliii, 218. Also in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831:45 [ref. 4881]. •Valid as Chaetodon baronessa Cuvier 1829 -- (Burgess 1978:434 [ref. 700], Allen 1980:160 [ref. 22764], Ida in Masuda et al. 1984:183 [ref. 6441], Blum 1989:14 [ref. 37553], Randall et al. 1990:221 [ref. 15987], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:403 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:154 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:221 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:163 [ref. 23965], Allen 2000:89 [ref. 37268], Pyle in Randall & Lim 2000:623 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:891 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:294 [ref. 25191], Allen 2000:105 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:265 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:36 [ref. 25847], Pyle 2001:3237 [ref. 26117] dated 1831, Nakabo 2002:891 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:42 [ref. 26830] dated 1831, Smith et al. 2003:305 [ref. 27125], Randall et al. 2004:18 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:122 [ref. 27715], Randall 2005:310 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1289 [ref. 29090], Motomura et al. 2010:135 [ref. 31256], Zuo & Tang 2011:1003 [ref. 32151], Allen & Erdmann 2012:520 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:155 [ref. 32988] dated 1831, Fricke et al. 2014:98 [ref. 33932], Motomura et al. 2017:167 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2019:182 [ref. 36673], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:227 [ref. 41223], Mochizuki et al. 2022:23 [ref. 39612], Allen & Erdmann 2024:553 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Chaetodon baronessa Cuvier 1829. Chaetodontidae: Chaetodontinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Christmas Island and Cocos-Keeling Islands (Australia) and Indonesia east to Fiji, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Northern Territory (Australia). Habitat: marine.