acares, Chromis Randall [J. E.] & Swerdloff [S. N.] 1973:331, Figs. 2-3 [Pacific Science v. 27 (no. 4); ref. 7583] Off tanker buoys at harbor entrance, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, South Pacific, depth 20 meters. Holotype: BPBM 13823. Paratypes: AMS I.16766-001 (1), I.16772-001 (1); BMNH 1972.12.5.4 (1); BPBM 8752 (3), 11049 (14), 11612 (2), 11298 (1), 12172 (1), 12296 (1), 13686 (1), 13817-18 (10, 3), 13820 (1), 13970 (1), 14059 (2), 14659 (1); CAS 15912 (1); MNHN 1972-96 (1); USNM 208430 (1). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1978:6 [ref. 20862]. •Valid as Chromis acares Randall & Swerdloff 1973 -- (Randall et al. 1990:255 [ref. 15987], Allen 1991:238 [ref. 19344], Randall et al. 1993:231 [ref. 21003], Senou et al. 1997:3 [ref. 24368], Randall et al. 1997:255 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:177 [ref. 23965], Randall 1999:19 [ref. 25829], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:626 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:923 [ref. 25182], Allen 2001:3342 [ref. 26132], Nakabo 2002:923 [ref. 26193], Myers & Donaldson 2003:631 [ref. 27495], Lobel & Lobel 2004:73 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:20 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:352 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:425 [ref. 28379], Randall 2007:304 [ref. 30952], Allen & Erdmann 2012:575 [ref. 31980], Koeda et al. 2016:67 [ref. 35333], Zajonz et al. 2019:85 [ref. 36871] as cf. acares, Fujiwara et al. 2020:36 [ref. 38631], Parenti 2021:49 [ref. 38418]). •Valid as Pycnochromis acares (Randall & Swerdloff 1973) -- (Tang et al. 2021:271 [ref. 38308]). Current status: Valid as Pycnochromis acares (Randall & Swerdloff 1973). Pomacentridae: Chrominae. Distribution: Southwestern and southern-central Pacific: New Caledonia, Rotuma, Tonga and Samoa east to Oeno (Pitcairn Group), north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), Wake Atoll and Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), south to Austral Islands and to Pitcairn Islands. Habitat: marine.