carneus, Dascyllus Fischer [J. G.] 1885:71, Pl. 2 (fig. 5) [Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten v. 2; ref. 18083] Mozambique, western Indian Ocean. Lectotype: ZMH H62 [ex ZMH 3827]. Paralectotypes: ZMH H184 [ex ZMH 3827] (2). Type catalog: Ladiges et al. 1958:164 [ref. 19181], Wilkens & Dohse 1993:406 [ref. 21161] as syntypes. Lectotype selected by Ladiges et al. 1958:164 [ref. 19181]. •Valid as Dascyllus carneus Fischer 1885 -- (Allen 1986:677 [ref. 5631], Winterbottom et al. 1989:47 [ref. 13251], Allen 1991:243 [ref. 19344], Manilo 1992:23 [132] [ref. 39140], Myers 1999:179 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:378 [ref. 24106], Allen 2001:3343 [ref. 26132], Allen & Adrim 2003:46 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S113 [ref. 27377], Randall 2005:369 [ref. 28239], Fricke et al. 2009:80 [ref. 30213], Shibukawa 2009:208 [ref. 30449], Allen & Erdmann 2012:597 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:264 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2018:268 [ref. 35805], Arndt & Fricke 2019:26 [ref. 36883], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:135 [ref. 40104], Zajonz et al. 2019:86 [ref. 36871], Parenti 2021:64 [ref. 38418], Allen 2022:144 [ref. 39911], Allen & Erdmann 2024:607 [ref. 40796], Noushad K. et al. 2024:45 [ref. 40947]). Current status: Valid as Dascyllus carneus Fischer 1885. Pomacentridae: Chrominae. Distribution: Indian Ocean: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa (Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya), Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Andaman Sea and Java (western Indonesia). IUCN (2022): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.