blackburnii, Chaetodon Desjardins [J.] 1836:58 [Rapport Annuel sur les travaux de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Ile Maurice No. 7; ref. 17400] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. No types known. Illustrated in Valenciennes 1837: Pl. 37 (fig. 3) [ref. 17868] as C. blackburni. Neotype designation by Fricke 1999:327 [ref. 24106] is invalid; see Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. For comments on authorship see Monod 1976:21 [ref. 30339]. •Valid as Chaetodon blackburnii Desjardins 1836 -- (Burgess 1978:706 [ref. 700], Allen 1980:158 [ref. 22764], Heemstra 1986:628 [ref. 5660], Blum 1989:14 [ref. 37553], Fricke 1999:327 [ref. 24106], Smith et al. 2003:303 [ref. 27125], Heemstra et al. 2004:3323 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:286 [ref. 28072], Fricke et al. 2009:71 [ref. 30213], Fricke et al. 2018:235 [ref. 35805], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:157 [ref. 40104], Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:448 [ref. 39746]). Current status: Valid as Chaetodon blackburnii Desjardins 1836. Chaetodontidae: Chaetodontinae. Distribution: Western Indian Ocean: KwaZulu-Natal, straying to eastern Cape (South Africa), and East Africa (Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya) east to Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues). Habitat: marine.