plebeius, Chaetodon Cuvier [G.] (ex Broussonet) in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831:68 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 7; ref. 4881] South Seas. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-9664. Type catalog: Bauchot 1963:126 [ref. 20718], Bauchot 1969:135-136 [ref. 20807]. •Valid as Chaetodon plebeius Cuvier 1831 -- (Burgess 1978:447 [ref. 700], Allen 1980:162 [ref. 22764], Ida in Masuda et al. 1984:183 [ref. 6441], Allen & Swainston 1988:96 [ref. 25477], Blum 1989:14 [ref. 37553], Randall et al. 1990:227 [ref. 15987], Kuiter 1993:224 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:163 [ref. 25479], Allen 1997:148 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:123 [ref. 26476], Kuiter 1997:220 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:227 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:165 [ref. 23965], Kuiter & Debelius 1999:234 [ref. 24303], Johnson 1999:739 [ref. 25471], Pyle in Randall & Lim 2000:623 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:888 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:297 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:169 [ref. 25480], Hutchins 2001:265 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:36 [ref. 25847], Pyle 2001:3247 [ref. 26117], Nakabo 2002:888 [ref. 26193], Smith et al. 2003:304 [ref. 27125], Randall et al. 2004:18 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:318 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1293 [ref. 29090], Motomura et al. 2010:137 [ref. 31256], Zuo & Tang 2011:1003 [ref. 32151], Allen & Erdmann 2012:529 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:101 [ref. 33932], Koeda et al. 2016:9 [ref. 35354], Fricke et al. 2019:186 [ref. 36673], Hoschke et al. 2019:157 [ref. 36626], Moore et al. 2020:110 [ref. 37357], Allen & Erdmann 2024:562 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Chaetodon plebeius Cuvier 1831. Chaetodontidae: Chaetodontinae. Distribution: Southeastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: eastern Australia and Papua New Guinea east to Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Fiji, north to Japan. Habitat: marine.