cookii, Apogon Macleay [W.] 1881:344 [Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales v. 5 (pt 3); ref. 17577] Endeavour River and Erub [= Darnley] Island, Queensland, Australia. Syntypes: AMS I.16307-001 [ex MAMU F403] (13) Endeavour R., AMS I.16308-001 [ex MAMU F409] (1) Port Moresby. Type catalog: Stanbury 1969:206 [ref. 19518]. •Valid as Apogon cookii Macleay 1881 -- (Hayashi in Masuda et al. 1984:147 [ref. 6441], Gon 1986:549 [ref. 5657], Randall & Lachner 1986:115 [ref. 9722], Randall & Hoese 1988:363 [ref. 14264], Allen & Swainston 1988:66 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:546 [ref. 12442], Randall et al. 1990:140 [ref. 15987], Kuiter 1993:158 [ref. 23929], Randall et al. 1994:226 [ref. 21645], Goren & Dor 1994:30 [ref. 25356], Lee & Kim 1996:64 [ref. 24706], Larson & Williams 1997:356 [ref. 23967] as cooki, Allen 1997:102 [ref. 23977] as cooki, Carpenter et al. 1997:150 [ref. 23922], Kuiter 1997:142 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:140 [ref. 25919], Allen 1999:2605 [ref. 24812], Johnson 1999:732 [ref. 25471], Nakabo 2000:772 [ref. 25086], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:613 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:212 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:94 [ref. 25480], Allen 2000:100 [ref. 25868], Randall 2001:61 [ref. 25215], Hutchins 2001:31 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:772 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:319, 597 [ref. 26218], Allen & Adrim 2003:35 [ref. 26830] as cooki, Gon & Randall 2003:10 [ref. 26750], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S105 [ref. 27377], Randall et al. 2004:13 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:120 [ref. 27715], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:184 [ref. 28072], Allen et al. 2006:1086 [ref. 29004], Shibukawa 2009:104 [ref. 30449], Yoshida et al. 2010:32 [ref. 31255], Motomura et al. 2010:105 [ref. 31256]). •Valid as Ostorhinchus cookii (Macleay 1881) -- (Randall 2005:204 [ref. 28239], Fricke et al. 2009:52 [ref. 30213], Allen & Erdmann 2012:390 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:112 [ref. 32988], Mabuchi et al. 2014:199 [ref. 33426], Mabuchi et al. 2015:44 [ref. 34429], Koeda et al. 2016:33 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2018:171 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:76 [ref. 36273], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:161 [ref. 40104], Eagderi et al. 2019:38 [ref. 37020], Kuiter & Kozawa 2019:116 [ref. 36965], Zajonz et al. 2019:74 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 13 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:407 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:59 [ref. 37637], Habib et al. 2021:507 [ref. 38587], Yoshida in Motomura et al. 2021:25 [ref. 38121], Fraser et al. 2022:196 [ref. 39752], Moazzam & Osmany 2023:58 [ref. 40689], Allen & Erdmann 2024:416 [ref. 40796], Endruweit 2024:41 [ref. 41040], Noushad K. et al. 2024:45 [ref. 40947]). Current status: Valid as Ostorhinchus cookii (Macleay 1881). Apogonidae: Apogoninae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Philippines, north to southern Sea of Japan, south to Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.