Scatophagus Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1831
Selenotoca Myers, 1936; (synonym)
Prenes Gistel, 1848; (synonym)
Cacodoxus Cantor, 1849; (synonym)
Desmoprenes Fowler & Bean, 1929; (synonym)
Scatophagus argus Cuvier, 1831
Chaetodon argus Linnaeus, 1766; (valid as)
Chaetodon argus Gmelin, 1788; (valid as)
Chaetodon pairatalis Hamilton, 1822; (vs)
Chaetodon atromaculatus Bennett, 1830; (synonym)
Scatophagus bougainvillii Cuvier, 1831; (vs)
Scatophagus ornatus Cuvier, 1831; (vs)
Scatophagus purpurascens Cuvier, 1831; (vs)
Scatophagus macronotus Bleeker, 1845; (unavailable, no features)
Prenes argus Gistel, 1848; (valid as)
Cacodoxus argus Cantor, 1849; (valid as)
Sargus maculatus Gronow, 1854; (synonym)
Scatophagus argus var. ocellata Klunzinger, 1880; (vs)
Scatophagus aetate-varians De Vis, 1884; (misspelling)
Scatophagus aetatevarians De Vis, 1884; (misspelling)
Scatophagus quadranus De Vis, 1884; (vs)
Scatophagus brunneus Saville-Kent, 1893; (unavailable, no features)
Scatophagus chameleon Saville-Kent, 1893; (unavailable, no features)
Scatophagus argus Ida, 1984
Scatophagus tetracanthus Heemstra, 1986
Chaetodon tetracanthus Lacep¨de, 1802; (valid as)
Scatophagus fasciatus Cuvier, 1831; (synonym, objective)
Scatophagus fasciatus Cuvier, 1831; (unneeded replacement)
Scatophagus semistriatus Saville-Kent, 1893; (unavailable, no features)
Desmoprenes tetracanthus Fowler & Bean, 1929; (valid as)
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Additional information sources:
The taxonomic information and the basic database has been provided by; e-mail: Igor Sheremetyev ; This is a conversion from a database dump, and there are probably many odd things as result of automatic conversion.