taeniatus, Apogon Cuvier [G.] (ex Ehrenberg) in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828:159 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 2; ref. 997] Red Sea. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-8693 (2, poor condition), ZMB 54 or 64 (2). Type catalog: Bauchot & Desoutter 1987:63 [ref. 12478]. Name originally spelled tæniatus. •Valid as Apogon taeniatus Cuvier 1828 -- (Dor 1984:114 [ref. 29757], Hureau in Whitehead et al. 1986:804 [ref. 13676], Gon 1986:553 [ref. 5657], Gon 1986:6 [ref. 8087], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:222 [ref. 24016], Goren & Dor 1994:31 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:160 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:151 [ref. 23922], Fraser 2000:259 [ref. 24412], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:613 [ref. 25122] as taeniata, Gon & Randall 2003:25 [ref. 26750], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S106 [ref. 27377]). •Valid as Apogonichthyoides taeniatus (Cuvier 1828) -- (Fraser & Allen 2010:44 [ref. 30717], Fraser & Allen 2011:67 [ref. 31605], Mabuchi et al. 2014:202 [ref. 33426], Ali et al. 2018:320 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:165 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:72 [ref. 36273], Jawad et al. 2018:105 [ref. 36262], Eagderi et al. 2019:36 [ref. 37020], Kuiter & Kozawa 2019:159 [ref. 36965], Zajonz et al. 2019:73 [ref. 36871] as cf. taeniatus, Fraser et al. 2022:213 [ref. 39752], Moazzam & Osmany 2023:69 [ref. 40689]). Current status: Valid as Apogonichthyoides taeniatus (Cuvier 1828). Apogonidae: Apogoninae. Distribution: Red Sea; western Indian Ocean: East Africa, Gulf of Oman east to Pakistan, icnluding Persian Gulf to Aldabra (Seychelles) and Madagascar; Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: marine.