trifasciatus, Chaetodon Park [M.] 1797:34 [The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London v. 3 (art. 9); ref. 17801] Habitat in Sumatræ littore [Bengkulu Province, Sumatra, Indonesia, eastern Indian Ocean]. Syntypes: BMNH 1863.11.12.4 (1, dry, right half skin). Type catalog: Wheeler 1974:474 [ref. 31545]. Author often seen as Mungo Park. Chaetodon trifasciatus Walbaum 1793 is senior homonym of Chaetodon trifasciatus Park 1797 but also is a nomen oblitum. Chaetodon trifasciatus Park 1797 is here treated as a nomen protectum. •Valid as Chaetodon trifasciatus Park 1797, subspecies trifasciatus -- (Winterbottom et al. 1989:43 [ref. 13251]). •Valid as Chaetodon trifasciatus Park 1797 -- (Burgess 1978:478 [ref. 700], Allen 1980:160 [ref. 22764], Ida in Masuda et al. 1984:183 [ref. 6441], Heemstra 1986:630 [ref. 5660], Allen & Swainston 1988:98 [ref. 25477], Blum 1989:14 [ref. 37553], Randall et al. 1990:229 [ref. 15987], Francis 1993:163 [ref. 25479], Kuiter 1995:105 [ref. 22918], Randall 1995:248 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:407 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:150 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:125 [ref. 26476] with author as Mungo Park, Randall et al. 1997:229 [ref. 25919], Fricke 1999:336 [ref. 24106], Johnson 1999:739 [ref. 25471], Pyle in Randall & Lim 2000:623 [ref. 25122], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:171 [ref. 25480], Pyle 2001:3254 [ref. 26117], Allen & Adrim 2003:42 [ref. 26830], Smith et al. 2003:305 [ref. 27125], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S112 [ref. 27377], Heemstra et al. 2004:3323 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:315 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1291 [ref. 29090], Fricke et al. 2009:73 [ref. 30213], Satapoomin 2009:189 [ref. 30463], Hobbs et al. 2010:67 [ref. 30769], Caratini & Soriano 2011:94 [ref. 39915], Allen & Erdmann 2012:532 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:262 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2018:238 [ref. 35805], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:154 [ref. 40104], Zajonz et al. 2019:83 [ref. 36871], Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:461 [ref. 39746], Noushad K. et al. 2024:45 [ref. 40947]). Nomen Protectum. Current status: Valid as Chaetodon trifasciatus Park 1797. Chaetodontidae: Chaetodontinae. Distribution: Indian Ocean: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Cocos-Keeling Islands (Australia), Christmas Island (Australia), Sumatra and Java (Indonesia). Habitat: marine.