argenteus, Chaetodon Linnaeus [C.] 1758:272 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] India. Holotype (unique): ZMUU Linn. Coll. 103. Type catalog: Lönnberg 1896:30 [ref. 23530], Wheeler 1991:187-188, Fig. 25 [ref. 20102]. Also appeared in Linnaeus 1759:249 [ref. 24770]. •Valid as Monodactylus argenteus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Dor 1984:165 [ref. 29757], Hayashi in Masuda et al. 1984:165 [ref. 6441], Desoutter 1986:338 [ref. 6212], Heemstra 1986:607 [ref. 5660], Yu & Zhou in Kuang et al. 1986:252 [ref. 26639], Allen & Swainston 1988:92 [ref. 25477], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:521 [ref. 25598] as Monodachtylus, Allen 1991:140 [ref. 21090], Pethiyagoda 1991:222 [ref. 20075], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:868 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:120 [ref. 23448], Kuiter 1993:208 [ref. 23929], Skelton 1993:358 [ref. 24071], Francis 1993:162 [ref. 25479], Goren & Dor 1994:46 [ref. 25356], Krishnan & Mishra 1994:287 [ref. 24014], Poll & Gosse 1995:103 [ref. 24781], Randall 1995:245 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:400 [ref. 27969], Rainboth 1996:189 [ref. 22772], Reinthal & Stiassny 1997:354 [ref. 22780], Allen 1997:144 [ref. 23977], Larson & Williams 1997:362 [ref. 23967], Chen et al. 1997:114 [ref. 26476], Kuiter 1997:198 [ref. 25488], Anderson et al. 1998:25 [ref. 23611], Myers 1999:162 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:324 [ref. 24106], Johnson 1999:738 [ref. 25471], Krupp et al. 2000:331 [ref. 25117], Kottelat in Randall & Lim 2000:623 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:882 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:289 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:152 [ref. 25480], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:186 [ref. 25703], Sakai et al. 2001:101 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:35 [ref. 25847], Kottelat 2001:3218 [ref. 26115], Skelton 2001:358 [ref. 27406], Allen et al. 2002:348 [ref. 25930], Nakabo 2002:882 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:42 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S111 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:629 [ref. 27495], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:115 [ref. 27510], Tan & Lim 2004:110 [ref. 27716] with question, Heemstra et al. 2004:3321 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:255 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:303 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1282 [ref. 29090], Fricke 2008:43 [ref. 30182], Fricke et al. 2009:71 [ref. 30213], Satapoomin 2009:178 [ref. 30463], Motomura et al. 2010:131 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:513 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:261 [ref. 32706], Larson et al. 2013:153 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:362 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:98 [ref. 33932], Psomadakis et al. 2015:290 [ref. 34104], Koeda et al. 2016:51 [ref. 35333] as Monodachtylus, Fricke et al. 2018:231 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:105 [ref. 36273], Satapoomin in Kimura et al. 2018:204 [ref. 36460], Suresh et al. 2018:264 [ref. 36495], Arndt & Fricke 2019:21 [ref. 36883], Eagderi et al. 2019:84 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:178 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:82 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 22 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:511 [ref. 37272], Akaike et al. 2021:23 [ref. 38809], Koeda in Motomura et al. 2021:38 [ref. 38121], Taki et al. 2021:393 [ref. 39830], Heemstra 2022:345 [ref. 39773], Furuhashi et al. 2023:24 [ref. 40140], Hasan et al. 2023:2212 [ref. 40412], Jamandre 2023:173 [ref. 40455], Okamura et al. 2023:22 [ref. 39950], Allen & Erdmann 2024:546 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Monodactylus argenteus (Linnaeus 1758). Monodactylidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Mozambique Channel, Madagascar and Mascarenes (Réunion, Mauritus, Rodrigues) east to Mariana Islands, Caroline Islands (Micronesia) and Samoa, north to Kochi Prefecture (Japan), south to Western Australia and to New Caledonia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.