Species that contain: Chaetodon and mesoleucos [ 4 ] records

arabicus, Chaetodon mesoleucus var. Walbaum [J. J.] (ex Forsskål) 1792:411 [Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium Part 3; ref. 4572] Red Sea (is Al-Mukhā, Yemen, Red Sea). •Synonym of Chaetodon mesoleucos Forsskål 1775 -- (Fricke 2008:44 [ref. 30182].). Current status: Synonym of Chaetodon mesoleucos Forsskål 1775. Chaetodontidae: Chaetodontinae. Habitat: marine.

hadjan, Chaetodon Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] (ex Forsskål) 1801:227 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Arabia, Red Sea (is Al-Mukhā, Yemen, Red Sea). •Synonym of Chaetodon mesoleucos Forsskål 1775 -- (Burgess 1978:622 [ref. 700], Allen 1980:161 [ref. 22764], Fricke 2008:44 [ref. 30182]). Current status: Synonym of Chaetodon mesoleucos Forsskål 1775. Chaetodontidae: Chaetodontinae. Habitat: marine.

mesoleucos, Chaetodon Forsskål [P. S.] in Niebuhr 1775:61, xiii [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] [Mochhæ] Al-Mukhā, Yemen, Red Sea. No types known. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:44 [ref. 30182]. Spelled mesoleucus by some authors, but Chaetodon mesoleucus Bloch is a different species. •Valid as Chaetodon mesoleucos Forsskål 1775 -- (Burgess 1978:618 [ref. 700], Allen 1980:161 [ref. 22764], Dor 1984:175 [ref. 29757], Blum 1989:13 [ref. 37553], Goren & Dor 1994:47 [ref. 25356], Smith et al. 2003:303 [ref. 27125], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S112 [ref. 27377], Fricke 2008:44 [ref. 30182], Randall & Rocha 2009:511 [ref. 30410], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[16] 254 [ref. 36492], Golani & Fricke 2018:109 [ref. 36273], Zajonz et al. 2019:83 [ref. 36871] as cf. mesoleucos, Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:457 [ref. 39746]). Current status: Valid as Chaetodon mesoleucos Forsskål 1775. Chaetodontidae: Chaetodontinae. Distribution: Red Sea; northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden. Habitat: marine.

mesoleucus, Chaetodon Bloch [M. E.] 1787:117, Pl. 216 (fig. 2) [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 3; ref. 468] Japan (possibly in error, maybe Indian Ocean). Syntypes: ZMB 8149 (1, dry, lost). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:118 [ref. 24282]. Not Chaetodon mesoleucos Forsskål. On p. 88 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 6 [ref. 21381]. •Valid as Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus (Bloch 1787) -- (Allen 1980:250 [ref. 22764], Araga in Masuda et al. 1984:187 [ref. 6441], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:411 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:158 [ref. 23977], Myers 1999:172 [ref. 23965], Pyle in Randall & Lim 2000:624 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:900 [ref. 25182], Allen 2000:107 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:265 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:36 [ref. 25847], Pyle 2001:3281 [ref. 26118], Nakabo 2002:900 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2002:42 [ref. 26830] dated 1857, Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:122 [ref. 27510], Adrim et al. 2004:122 [ref. 27715], Mundy 2005:406 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:1306 [ref. 29090], Randall & Rocha 2009:511 [ref. 30410], Allen & Erdmann 2012:553 [ref. 31980], Koeda in Motomura et al. 2021:40 [ref. 38121], Farhana-Azmi et al. 2022:9 [ref. 40448]). Current status: Valid as Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus (Bloch 1787). Pomacanthidae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Malaysia and Indonesia east to Philippines, north to Japan, south to Western Australia. Habitat: marine.