passer, Holacanthus Valenciennes [A.] 1846:no p., Pl. 6 [Voyage autour du monde sur la frégate "la Vénus"; ref. 6165] Galápagos Islands. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-3559. Type catalog: Bauchot 1963:144 [ref. 20718]. Dates to publication in plate; corresponding text published as Valenciennes 1855:327 [ref. 4504]. •Valid as Holacanthus passer Valenciennes 1846 -- (Allen 1980:251 [ref. 22764], Allen & Robertson 1994:182 [ref. 22193], Krupp & Schneider in Fischer et al. 1995:1390 [ref. 22830], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:260 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:445 [ref. 24023], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:343 [ref. 24555], Thomson et al. 2000:149 [ref. 25640], Debelius in Kuiter et al. 2003:78 [ref. 43274], Nelson et al. 2004:150 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:130 [ref. 37547], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:193 [ref. 30957], Page et al. 2013:155 [ref. 32708], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:147 [ref. 34871] as Holocanthus, Fourriére et al. 2016:447 [ref. 34668], Fourrière et al. 2016:Suppl. p. 11 [ref. 42488], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:610 [ref. 34923], Sánchez-Jiménez et al. 2018:S8 [ref. 36248], Clua & Planes 2019:286 [ref. 37091], Love et al. 2021:170 [ref. 39279], Grove et al. 2022:22 [ref. 41326], Page et al. 2023:162 [ref. 40505], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:11 [ref. 40981], Fricke et al. 2024:659 [ref. 41622], Victor et al. 2024:81 [ref. 42021], Robertson et al. 2026:S1, p. 43 [ref. 43383], Tavera et al. 2026:364 [ref. 43073]). Current status: Valid as Holacanthus passer Valenciennes 1846. Pomacanthidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of southern Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to Peru, including Guadalupe Island (Mexico), Revillagigedo Islands (Mexico), Clipperton Atoll (France), Cocos Island (Costa Rica) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). IUCN (2010): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.