vagabundus, Chaetodon Linnaeus [C.] 1758:276 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Indies (probably Indonesia). No types known. Neotype designation by Fricke 1999:339 [ref. 24106] is invalid; see Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. •Valid as Chaetodon vagabundus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Burgess 1978:587 [ref. 700], Allen 1980:161 [ref. 22764], Dor 1984:176 [ref. 29757], Ida in Masuda et al. 1984:184 [ref. 6441], Heemstra 1986:630 [ref. 5660], Blum 1989:13 [ref. 37553], Winterbottom et al. 1989:43 [ref. 13251], Kuiter 1993:221 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:163 [ref. 25479], Goren & Dor 1994:48 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:252 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:152 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:126 [ref. 26476], Kuiter 1997:214 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:518 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:167 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:338 [ref. 24106], Johnson 1999:739 [ref. 25471], Allen 2000:89 [ref. 37268], Pyle in Randall & Lim 2000:624 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:892 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:300 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:172 [ref. 25480], Allen 2000:106 [ref. 25868], Sakai et al. 2001:102 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:265 [ref. 25841] as vababundus, Hutchins 2001:36 [ref. 25847], Pyle 2001:3255 [ref. 26117], Nakabo 2002:892 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:42 [ref. 26830], Smith et al. 2003:303 [ref. 27125], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S112 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:630 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:19 [ref. 27624], Heemstra et al. 2004:3323 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:292 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:323 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:400 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:1295 [ref. 29090], Fricke et al. 2009:73 [ref. 30213], Satapoomin 2009:189 [ref. 30463], Motomura et al. 2010:138 [ref. 31256], Caratini & Soriano 2011:103 [ref. 39915], Zuo & Tang 2011:1004 [ref. 32151], Allen & Erdmann 2012:533 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:262 [ref. 32706], Larson et al. 2013:155 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:102 [ref. 33932], Koeda et al. 2016:57 [ref. 35333], Koeda et al. 2016:9 [ref. 35354], Motomura et al. 2017:168 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:239 [ref. 35805], Arndt & Fricke 2019:14 [ref. 36883], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:153 [ref. 40104], Eagderi et al. 2019:54 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:189 [ref. 36673], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 22 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:141 [ref. 39118], Lee & Kim 2021:129 [ref. 39736], Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:462 [ref. 39746], Noushad K. et al. 2024:45 [ref. 40947]). Current status: Valid as Chaetodon vagabundus Linnaeus 1758. Chaetodontidae: Chaetodontinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Mozambique Channel, Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Marshall Islands, northern Line Islands (Kiribati) and Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia), north to southern Korea and southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Lord Howe Island (Australia), New Caledonia and Austral Islands (French Polynesia). Habitat: marine.