semiornatus, Apogon Peters [W. (C. H.)] 1876:436 [Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1876; ref. 18495] Île aux Fouquets, 8 kilometers east of Mahébourg, Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): ZMB 9454. Type locality see Möbius 1880 [ref. 30489]. •Valid as Apogon semiornatus Peters 1876 -- (Hayashi in Masuda et al. 1984:145 [ref. 6441], Gon 1986:552 [ref. 5657], Allen & Swainston 1988:68 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:550 [ref. 12442], Winterbottom et al. 1989:30 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:146 [ref. 15987], Collette & Parin 1991:11 [ref. 19110], Kuiter 1993:161 [ref. 23929], Randall 1994:262 [ref. 21644], Randall 1995:160 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:104 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:146 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:146 [ref. 25919], Fricke 1999:230 [ref. 24106], Allen 1999:2606 [ref. 24812], Johnson 1999:732 [ref. 25471], Allen 2000:87 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:763 [ref. 25086], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:613 [ref. 25122], Greenfield 2001:460 [ref. 25234], Randall 2001:53 [ref. 25215], Hutchins 2001:32 [ref. 25847], Fraser & Randall 2002:26 [ref. 25969], Shinohara et al. 2000:178 [ref. 25987], Nakabo 2002:763 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:36 [ref. 26830], Gon & Randall 2003:23 [ref. 26750], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S106 [ref. 27377], Randall et al. 2004:14 [ref. 27624], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:185 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:195 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1095 [ref. 29004], Greenfield 2007:365 [ref. 29402], Fricke et al. 2009:51 [ref. 30213], Yoshida et al. 2010:45 [ref. 31255], Motomura et al. 2010:109 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:369 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:107 [ref. 32988], Mabuchi et al. 2014:197 [ref. 33426], Mabuchi et al. 2015:42 [ref. 34429], Fricke et al. 2018:165 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:72 [ref. 36273], Arndt & Fricke 2019:10 [ref. 36883], Fraser et al. 2022:179 [ref. 39752], Allen & Erdmann 2024:394 [ref. 40796], Fricke et al. 2024:65 [ref. 41255]). Current status: Valid as Apogon semiornatus Peters 1876. Apogonidae: Apogoninae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Philippines, Solomon Islands and Tonga, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, New South Wales (Australia) and New Caledonia. IUCN (2022): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.
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