saxatilis, Chaetodon Linnaeus [C.] 1758:276 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] India [erroneous, should be Atlantic Ocean]. Syntypes: BMNH 1853.11.12.105 [Gronovius coll.] (1, skin), NRM 60 (1), ZMUU Linn. coll. 49 (1). Type catalog: Lönnberg 1896:22 [ref. 23530], Wheeler 1958:227-228 [ref. 13434], Fernholm & Wheeler 1983:255-256 [ref. 20707], Wheeler 1991:176, Fig. 15 [ref. 20102]. Based on the 'Sparus fasciis quinque transversis, subfuscis' of Linnaeus 1749:312 [ref. 38023] and Gronow 1754:37 [ref. 20783], and the 'Chaetodon cauda bifurca, fasciis quinque albis' of Linnaeus 1754:64 [ref. 31115]. •Valid as Abudefduf saxatilis (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Robins & Ray 1986:196 [ref. 23100], Edwards & Glass 1987:644 [ref. 9166], Pequeño 1989:62 [ref. 14125] as sexatilis, Scott & Scott 1988:395 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:154 [ref. 14674], Lloris & Rucabado 1990:843 [ref. 15959], Randall et al. 1990:249 [ref. 15987], Allen 1991:24 [ref. 19344], Boschung 1992:150 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:384 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1993:348 [ref. 24474], Randall 1995:259 [ref. 22896], Aguilera 1998:51 [ref. 24221], Randall & Earle 1999:339 [ref. 24306], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:283 [ref. 25013], Afonso et al. 1999:76 [ref. 25466], Thomson et al. 2000:162 [ref. 25640], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:163 [ref. 27754], Gasparini & Floeter 2001:1645 [ref. 25634], Rocha & Rosa 2001:991 [ref. 25909], Collette et al. 2003:113 [ref. 26784], Feitoza et al. 2003:69 [ref. 26943], Carter & Kaufman 2003:1697 [ref. 27102], Moura & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:91 [ref. 27192], Smith et al. 2003:40 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:154 [ref. 27807], Randall 2005:347 [ref. 28239], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:490 [ref. 28815], Vaske et al. 2005:78 [ref. 36155], Wirtz et al. 2007:36 [ref. 30263], Randall 2007:310 [ref. 30952], García-Hernández et al. 2009:93 [ref. 37265], Di Dario et al. 2013:264 [ref. 37503], Page et al. 2013:158 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:60 [ref. 33341], Wirtz et al. 2014:8 [ref. 33516], Pinheiro et al. 2015:22 [ref. 34324], Triay-Portella et al. 2015:168 [ref. 36561], Bilecenoğlu 2016:260 [ref. 37566], Edwards in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2718 [ref. 34618], Robertson et al. 2016:146 [ref. 3496], Nión et al. 2016:50 [ref. 35565], Spier et al. 2018:15 [ref. 36103], Wibowo et al. 2018:[2] [ref. 35945], Almeida & Alves 2019:271 [ref. 37509], Brown et al. 2019:164 [ref. 36444], Carneiro et al. 2019:278 [ref. 37250], Reiner 2019:235 [ref. 38139], Ribeiro et al. 2019:6 [ref. 36717], Dragičević et al. 2020:7 [ref. 38042], Robertson et al. 2020:160 [ref. 38098], Carvalho-Filho in Marceniuk et al. 2021:254 [ref. 38945], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:81 [ref. 38844], Golani 2021:66 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:73 [ref. 39014], Parenti 2021:41 [ref. 38418], Bennema & van Moorsel 2022:70 [ref. 39585], Fermon et al. 2022:250 [ref. 39448], Gökoğlu in Tiralongo et al. 2022:740 [ref. 39557] as cf. saxatilis, Carvalho-Filho 2023:192 [ref. 40480], Hoff et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40463], Page et al. 2023:160 [ref. 40505], Silva et al. 2024:4 [ref. 41512]). Current status: Valid as Abudefduf saxatilis (Linnaeus 1758). Pomacentridae: Glyphisodontinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts (U.S.A.) south to Uruguay, including Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and Fernando de Noronha (Brazil); southern-central Atlantic: Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago, Ascension Island and Saint Helena; eastern Atlantic: Senegal south to Angola, including Cape Verde Islands and São Tomé and Principe; invasive in the Mediterranean Sea. IUCN (2015): Least concern. Habitat: marine.