pictus, Chaetodon Forsskål [P. S.] in Niebuhr 1775:65, xiii [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] [Mochhæ] Al-Mukhā, Yemen, Red Sea. No types known. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:44 [ref. 30182]. •Synonym of Chaetodon vagabundus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Burgess 1978:587 [ref. 700], Allen 1980:161 [ref. 22764], Dor 1984:176 [ref. 29757]). •Valid as Chaetodon pictus Forsskål 1775 -- (Smith et al. 2003:303 [ref. 27125], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:293 [ref. 28072], Fricke 2008:44 [ref. 30182], Psomadakis et al. 2015:291 [ref. 34104], Golani & Fricke 2018:110 [ref. 36273], Zajonz et al. 2019:83 [ref. 36871], Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:460 [ref. 39746]). Current status: Valid as Chaetodon pictus Forsskål 1775. Chaetodontidae: Chaetodontinae. Distribution: Red Sea; northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden, Socotra (Yemen), southern Oman and Gulf of Oman. Habitat: marine.