Abudefduf (subgenus of Chaetodon) Fabricius [J. C.] in Niebuhr (ex Forsskål) 1775:xiii, 59 Masc. Chaetodon sordidus Forsskål 1775. Type by subsequent designation. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:46 [ref. 30182]. Type usually stated as determined through vernacular abu-defduf on p. xiii as Chaetodon sordidus, but Code does not provide for this; Fowler (MS) says Bleeker 1877:91 [ref. 452] designated saxatilis as type, but Bleeker was listing the type for Glyphidodon. Earliest technical designation of sordidus as type not researched. •Valid as Abudefduf Forsskål 1775 -- (Allen 1975:110 [ref. 97], Shen & Chan 1979:37 [ref. 6944], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:196 [ref. 6441], Quignard & Pras in Whitehead et al. 1986:916 [ref. 13676], Allen 1986:671 [ref. 5631], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:395 [ref. 24550], Tang 2001:596 [ref. 25446], Allen 2001:3341 [ref. 26132], Carter & Kaufman 2003:1695 [ref. 27102], Allen et al. 2006:1440 [ref. 29090], Kottelat 2013:375 [ref. 32989], Cooper et al. 2014:473 [ref. 35444], Stewart et al. 2015:1409 [ref. 34288], Cooper & Santini 2016:18 [ref. 34704] in subfamily Glyphisodontinae, Wibowo et al. 2017:[1] [ref. 35515], Motomura et al. 2017:172 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:260 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:112 [ref. 36273], Wibowo et al. 2018:[1] [ref. 35945], Brown et al. 2019:164 [ref. 36444], Fricke et al. 2019:203 [ref. 36673], Tang et al. 2021:280 [ref. 38308], Parenti 2021:39 [ref. 38418]). •Valid as Abudefduf Fabricius 1775 -- (Fricke 2008: 46 [ref. 30182]) Current status: Valid as Abudefduf Fabricius 1775. Pomacentridae: Glyphisodontinae.