sordidus, Chaetodon Forsskål [P. S.] 1775:62, xiii [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] Djiddae [Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea]. Holotype (unique): ZMUC P56264 (dry skin, poor condition). Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:69 [ref. 9588], Fricke 2008:46 [ref. 30182]. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:46 [ref. 30182]. Holotype figured in Klausewitz & Nielsen 1965:Pl. 34 [ref. 20847]. •Valid as Abudefduf sordidus (Forsskål 1775) -- (Dor 1984:179 [ref. 29757], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:196 [ref. 6441], Allen 1986:672 [ref. 5631], Allen & Swainston 1988:102 [ref. 25477], Winterbottom et al. 1989:44 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:249 [ref. 15987], Allen 1991:234 [ref. 19344], Kuiter 1993:235 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:163 [ref. 25479], Goren & Dor 1994:49 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:258 [ref. 22896], Lee & Kim 1996:32 [ref. 25726], Allen 1997:160 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:252 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:249 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:180 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:366 [ref. 24106], Johnson 1999:740 [ref. 25471], Randall 1999:19 [ref. 25829], Allen 2000:90 [ref. 37268], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:626 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:934 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:316 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:189 [ref. 25480], Randall & Earle 2000:16 [ref. 25806], Allen 2000:107 [ref. 25868], Sakai et al. 2001:102 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:266 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:37 [ref. 25847], Allen 2001:3342 [ref. 26132], Nakabo 2002:934 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:363, 631 [ref. 26218], Allen & Adrim 2003:44 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S113 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:632 [ref. 27495], Lobel & Lobel 2004:73 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:19 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:122 [ref. 27715], Heemstra et al. 2004:3324 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:328 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:348 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:424 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:1441 [ref. 29090], Wirtz et al. 2007:36 [ref. 30263], Randall 2007:310 [ref. 30952], Fricke 2008:46 [ref. 30182], Fricke et al. 2009:77 [ref. 30213], Ghanbarifardi & Malek 2009:[4] 498 [ref. 37937], Shibukawa 2009:201 [ref. 30449], Motomura et al. 2010:146 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:564 [ref. 31980], Biswas et al. 2012:110 [ref. 41578], Fricke et al. 2013:263 [ref. 32706], Larson et al. 2013:169 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:376 [ref. 32989], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:7 [ref. 33988], Psomadakis et al. 2015:298 [ref. 34104], Stewart et al. 2015:1409 [ref. 34288], Motomura et al. 2015:26 [ref. 34709], Koeda et al. 2016:65 [ref. 35333], Koeda et al. 2016:9 [ref. 35354], Kwun et al. 2017:142 [ref. 37287], Fricke et al. 2018:260 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:112 [ref. 36273], Arndt & Fricke 2019:26 [ref. 36883], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:140 [ref. 40104], Hoschke et al. 2019:157 [ref. 36626], Zajonz et al. 2019:86 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 23 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:147 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:521 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:80 [ref. 37637], Parenti 2021:42 [ref. 38418], Allen 2022:123 [ref. 39911], Dewa et al. 2022:21 [ref. 40001], Furuhashi & Motomura 2022:13 [ref. 39607], Mochizuki et al. 2022:23 [ref. 39612], Allen & Erdmann 2024:616 [ref. 40796], Fricke et al. 2024:83 [ref. 41255]). Current status: Valid as Abudefduf sordidus (Forsskål 1775). Pomacentridae: Glyphisodontinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U. S. A.), Wake Atoll and Pitcairn Group, north to southern Korea and central Japan, south to Rottnest Island (Western Australia), Montague Island (New South Wales, Australia), Lord Howe Island (Australia), Tonga and Rapa (French Polynesia). IUCN (2017): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.