guamensis, Apogon Valenciennes [A.] 1832:54 [Nouvelles Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris) v. 1; ref. 17863] Guam, Mariana Islands, western Pacific. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-8767 (4). Type catalog: Bauchot & Desoutter 1987:60 [ref. 12478]. •Valid as Apogon guamensis Valenciennes 1832 -- (Gon 1986:550 [ref. 5657], Paxton et al. 1989:548 [ref. 12442], Randall et al. 1990:142 [ref. 15987], Allen 1993:16 [ref. 20779], Goren & Dor 1994:30 [ref. 25356], Randall et al. 1997:142 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:126 [ref. 23965], Fraser et al. 1999:9 [ref. 24562], Allen 1999:2606 [ref. 24812], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:613 [ref. 25122], Allen 2000:100 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:31 [ref. 25847], Allen & Adrim 2003:35 [ref. 26830], Gon & Randall 2003:15 [ref. 26750], Myers & Donaldson 2003:623 [ref. 27495], Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:62 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:14 [ref. 27624], Allen et al. 2006:1089 [ref. 29004], Prokofiev 2006:5 [ref. 28960], Shibukawa 2009:105 [ref. 30449]). •Valid as Ostorhinchus guamensis (Valenciennes 1832) -- (Randall 2005:206 [ref. 28239], Fricke et al. 2014:74 [ref. 33932] with author as Lacepède 1802). •Synonym of Nectamia fusca (Quoy & Gaimard 1825) -- (Fraser 2008:15 [ref. 29471] dated 1824, Golani & Bogorodsky 2010:68 [ref. 35264], Golani & Fricke 2018:75 [ref. 36273]). Current status: Synonym of Nectamia fusca (Quoy & Gaimard 1825). Apogonidae: Apogoninae. Distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands, south to New Caledonia [if valid]. Habitat: marine.