He died in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, in a scuba diving accident.

[2] Centropyge heraldi has a wide range in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean.

This range extends from southern Japan and Taiwan east as far as the Tuamotu Islands and south to Australia.

[1] Centropyge heraldi was first formally described in 1953 by the Americans Loren Paul Woods (1914-1979) and Leonard Peter Schultz (1901-1986) with the type locality given as Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

[5] The specific name honours the American ichthyologist and public aquarium director Earl Stannard Herald (1914-1973) who assisted in the collection of the type.