Species that contain: Drepane and punctata [ 5 ] records

africana, Drepane punctata var. Osório [B.] 1892:207 [Jornal de Sciências Mathemáticas, Physicas e Naturaes, Lisboa (Ser. 2) v. 2 (no. 7); ref. 19127] West coast of São Tome and Principe islands, West-central Africa. Syntypes: (3) MB (destroyed in fire in 1979). •Valid as Drepane africana Osório 1892 -- (Desoutter 1986:340 [ref. 6212], Desoutter 1990:835 [ref. 18967], Bauchot in Lévêque et al. 1992:709 [ref. 21590], Poll & Gosse 1995:115 [ref. 24781], Afonso et al. 1999:76 [ref. 25466], Wirtz et al. 2007:36 [ref. 30263], Wirtz et al. 2013:128 [ref. 32972], Heemstra in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2663 [ref. 34618], Reiner 2019:228 [ref. 38139], Fermon et al. 2022:299 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Drepane africana Osório 1892. Drepaneidae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Mauritania south to Angola, including Cape Verde Islands and São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: marine.

falcatus, Chaetodon Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1802:452, 471 [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Lacepède) v. 4; ref. 4929] Asia. New name for Chaetodon punctatus Linnaeus 1758. •Synonym of Drepane punctata (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Kottelat 2013:365 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Drepane punctata (Linnaeus 1758). Drepaneidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

octofasciata, Drepane punctata var. Pellegrin [J.] 1905:51, Fig. [Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux v. 60 (Ser. 6, v. 10); ref. 15685] Coast of Mauritania. Syntypes: MNHN 1905-0306 (1), another one lost. Type catalog: Bauchot 1963:156 [ref. 20718]. •Synonym of Drepane africana Osório 1892 -- (Desoutter 1986:340 [ref. 6212], Desoutter 1990:835 [ref. 18967]). Current status: Synonym of Drepane africana Osório 1892. Drepaneidae. Habitat: marine.

punctata, Drepane Solander [D. C.] in Richardson 1842:28 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (New Series) v. 10 (no. 62); ref. 18628] Australia [as New Holland]. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. Regarded as independent of Chaetodon punctatus Linnaeus 1758 from the literature; preoccupied by Chaetodon punctatus Linnaeus 1758. Kottelat (2013:365) regards as unavailable. •Synonym of Drepane punctata (Linnaeus 1758). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Drepane punctata (Linnaeus 1758). Drepaneidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

punctatus, Chaetodon Linnaeus [C.] 1758:273 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Asia. No types known. Neotype designation by Fricke 1999:324 [ref. 24106] is invalid; see Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. •Valid as Drepane punctata (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Kyushin et al. 1982:146 [ref. 19754], Dor 1984:167 [ref. 29757], Hayashi in Masuda et al. 1984:181 [ref. 6441], Desoutter 1986:340 [ref. 6212], Yu & Zhou in Kuang et al. 1986:251 [ref. 26639] as punctatus, Allen & Swainston 1988:94 [ref. 25477], Winterbottom et al. 1989:42 [ref. 13251], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:874 [ref. 20764], Coad 1991:26 [ref. 15702], Kottelat et al. 1993:121 [ref. 23448], Poll & Gosse 1995:115 [ref. 24781], Goren & Dor 1994:46 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:380 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:397 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:146 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:114 [ref. 26476], Larson & Williams 1997:362 [ref. 23967], Carpenter et al. 1997:194 [ref. 23922], Fricke 1999:324 [ref. 24106], Johnson 1999:739 [ref. 25471], Heemstra in Randall & Lim 2000:623 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:883 [ref. 25182], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:186 [ref. 25703] as punctatus, Iwatsuki et al. 2000:102 [ref. 26368], Matsuura & Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:268 [ref. 27511], Hutchins 2001:36 [ref. 25847], Heemstra 2001:3223 [ref. 26116], Kuiter & Debelius 2001:204 [ref. 26232], Nakabo 2002:883 [ref. 26193], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S111 [ref. 27377], Khan 2003:10 [ref. 27710], Ataur Rahman 2003:375 [ref. 31338], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:260 [ref. 28072], Allen et al. 2006:1718 [ref. 29090], Fricke et al. 2009:71 [ref. 30213], Satapoomin 2009:182 [ref. 30463], Larson et al. 2013:210 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:365 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:164 [ref. 34464], Psomadakis et al. 2015:289 [ref. 34104], Satapoomin in Kimura et al. 2015:69 [ref. 34319], Motomura et al. 2017:166 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:335 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:234 [ref. 35805], Satapoomin in Kimura et al. 2018:200 [ref. 36460], Suresh et al. 2018:263 [ref. 36495], Eagderi et al. 2019:55 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:181 [ref. 36673], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 26 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:510 [ref. 37272], Taki et al. 2021:392 [ref. 39830], Al Abri et al. 2022:[3] 667 [ref. 40068], Heemstra 2022:354 [ref. 39850]). Current status: Valid as Drepane punctata (Linnaeus 1758). Drepaneidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Madagascar, Réunion (Mascarenes, now extinct) and Persian Gulf east to Philippines and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia. Habitat: brackish, marine.