argus, Chaetodon Linnaeus [C.] (ex Brünnich) 1766:464 [Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae v. 1 (pt 1); ref. 2786] India. Holotype: MJAS (whereabouts unknown). Boddaert 1770 [ref. 16973] redescribed and figured the species and referred to description by Linnaeus 1766 [ref. 2786]. See Parenti 2004:2 [ref. 27605] for detailed locality information. Based on manuscript description by M. T. Brünnich. •Valid as Prenes argus (Linnaeus 1766) -- (Endruweit 2024:64 [ref. 41040]). •Valid as Scatophagus argus (Linnaeus 1766) -- (Roberts 1978:59 [ref. 8886], Ida in Masuda et al. 1984:182 [ref. 6441], Yu & Zhou in Kuang et al. 1986:254 [ref. 26639], Allen & Swainston 1988:96 [ref. 25477], Ataur Rahman 1989:322 [ref. 24860], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:533 [ref. 25598], Zheng 1989:331 [ref. 21202], Larson & Martin 1990:60 [ref. 16606], Allen 1991:142 [ref. 21090], Pethiyagoda 1991:228 [ref. 20075], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:875 [ref. 20764], Ye in Pan et al. 1991:413 [ref. 23876], Kottelat et al. 1993:122 [ref. 23448], Kuiter 1993:216 [ref. 23929], Kottelat & Lim 1996:245 [ref. 23210], Randall 1995:383 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:399 [ref. 27969], Rainboth 1996:190 [ref. 22772], Allen 1997:146, 148 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:115 [ref. 26476], Larson & Williams 1997:362 [ref. 23967], Carpenter et al. 1997:218 [ref. 23922], Takahashi et al. 1997:45 [ref. 24971], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:11 [ref. 24670], Lee & Joo 1998:164 [ref. 25738], Myers 1999:265 [ref. 23965], Mishra & Srinivasan 1999:250 [ref. 24754], Mizuno et al. 1999:9 [ref. 25311], Tyler & Sorbini 1999:370 [ref. 25312], Mishra et al. 1999:87 [ref. 25315], Johnson 1999:739 [ref. 25471], Kottelat in Randall & Lim 2000:641 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1314 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:289 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:269 [ref. 25480], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:186 [ref. 25703], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:102 [ref. 26368], Sakai et al. 2001:101 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:36 [ref. 25847], Kottelat 2001:3624 [ref. 26299] dated 1788, Kuiter & Debelius 2001:205 [ref. 26232], Allen et al. 2002:351 [ref. 25930], Nakabo 2002:1314 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:413, 668 [ref. 26218], Allen & Adrim 2003:62 [ref. 26830] with author and date as Bloch 1788, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S120 [ref. 27377], Parin 2003:S25 [ref. 28536], Parenti 2004:2 [ref. 27605], Randall et al. 2004:29 [ref. 27624] as Bloch 1788, Khan 2003:10 [ref. 27710] with author as Bloch, Ataur Rahman 2003:348 [ref. 31338], Morgan et al. 2004:151 [ref. 27718], Tan & Lim 2004:110 [ref. 27716], Larson & Pidgeon 2004:197 [ref. 28107], Randall 2005:571 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1722 [ref. 29090], Kharin & Milovankin 2008:822 [ref. 30238], Allen et al. 2008:187 [ref. 30265], Matsuura 2009:296 [ref. 31171] with author and year as Bloch 1788, Coad 2010:268 [ref. 36620], Motomura et al. 2010:225 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1006 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:211 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:438 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:197 [ref. 34464], Parin et al. 2014:506 [ref. 33547], Fricke et al. 2014:179 [ref. 33932], Morgan et al. 2014:33 [ref. 36567], Matsuura in Kimura et al. 2015:83 [ref. 34319], Psomadakis et al. 2015:305 [ref. 34104], Miesen et al. 2016:95 [ref. 34492], Koeda et al. 2016:98 [ref. 35333], Labatos 2017:5 [ref. 36239], Motomura et al. 2017:202 [ref. 35490], Pusey et al. 2017:56 [ref. 35250], Ali et al. 2018:338 [ref. 36183], Matsuura in Kimura et al. 2018:205 [ref. 36460], Sulaiman et al. 2018:45 [ref. 35802], Suresh et al. 2018:297 [ref. 36495], Eagderi et al. 2019:100 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:296 [ref. 36673], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 25 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:177 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:553 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:109 [ref. 37637], Akaike et al. 2021:30 [ref. 38809], Keith et al. 2021:68 [ref. 38257], Kovačić et al. 2021:61 [ref. 39014], Taki et al. 2021:395 [ref. 39830], Heemstra 2022:208 [ref. 40142], Jamaluddin et al. 2022:[9] [ref. 39245], Çiçek et al. 2023:34 [ref. 40616], Hasan et al. 2023:2212 [ref. 40412], Jamandre 2023:158 [ref. 40455], Jawad & Al-Shwafi 2024:95 [ref. 41251]). Current status: Valid as Scatophagus argus (Linnaeus 1766). Scatophagidae. Distribution: Southern Red Sea: Yemen; Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf east to Society Islands (French Polynesia), north to Korea and central Japan, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.