Apogon Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1801:411 Masc. Apogon ruber Lacepède 1801 (= Mullus imberbis Linnaeus 1758). Type by monotypy. •Valid as Apogon Lacepède 1801 -- (Tortonese 1973:365 [ref. 7192], Fraser 1972:17 [ref. 5195], Hayashi in Masuda et al. 1984:145 [ref. 6441], Tortonese in Whitehead et al. 1986:803 [ref. 13676], Gon 1986:547 [ref. 5657], Gon 1988:8 [ref. 31743], Paxton et al. 1989:545 [ref. 12442], Fraser & Struhsaker 1991:721 [ref. 19768], Ye in Pan et al. 1991:371 [ref. 23876], Allen 1991:130 [ref. 21090], Lee & Kim 1996:61 [ref. 24706], Fraser 1998:986 [ref. 23602], Allen 1999:2604 [ref. 24812], Fraser 2000:249 [ref. 24412], Gon 2003:1387 [ref. 27085], Fraser 2005:1 [ref. 28138], Mabuchi et al. 2006:94 [ref. 28550], Allen et al. 2006:1082 [ref. 29004], Greenfield 2007:364 [ref. 29402], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:43 [ref. 36649], Yoshida et al. 2010:28 [ref. 31255], Baldwin et al. 2011:1 [ref. 31688], Kottelat 2013:329 [ref. 32989], Mabuchi et al. 2014:197 [ref. 33426], Mabuchi et al. 2015:42 [ref. 34429] tribe Apogonini, Fricke et al. 2018:164 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:71 [ref. 36273], Piñeros et al. 2018:234 [ref. 36377], Brown et al. 2019:163 [ref. 36444], Fricke et al. 2019:131 [ref. 36673], Kuiter & Kozawa 2019:22 [ref. 36965], Yoshida & Motomura 2020:1 [ref. 37470], Gon et al. 2020:485 [ref. 38029], Lea et al. 2022:107 [ref. 39165]). Current status: Valid as Apogon Lacepède 1801. Apogonidae: Apogoninae.