novaeguineae, Apogon Valenciennes [A.] 1832:53, Pl. 4 (fig. 1) [Nouvelles Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris) v. 1; ref. 17863] New Guinea. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-8695. Type catalog: Bauchot & Desoutter 1987:61 [ref. 12478]. Originally as Novae Guineae. •Valid as Apogon novaeguineae Valenciennes 1832 -- (Kailola 1971:118 [ref. 39475], Gon 1997:170 [ref. 23065] as novaeguinae, Gon & Allen 1998:6 [ref. 24416], Fraser 2000:254 [ref. 24412], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:613 [ref. 25122]). •Valid as Jaydia novaeguineae (Valenciennes 1832) -- (Mabuchi et al. 2014:202 [ref. 33426], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:418 [ref. 33460], Fraser & Prokofiev 2016:239 [ref. 34742], Yu et al. 2016:3 [ref. 34816], Fricke et al. 2018:169 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:75 [ref. 36273], Kuiter & Kozawa 2019:169 [ref. 36965], Mohanty et al. 2020:1495 [ref. 37801], Psomadakis et al. 2020:405 [ref. 37272], Yu et al. 2021:974 [ref. 40905], Fraser et al. 2022:215 [ref. 39752]). Current status: Valid as Jaydia novaeguineae (Valenciennes 1832). Apogonidae: Apogoninae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Kenya and Madagascar east to Philippines and Papua New Guinea, north to southern China. Habitat: marine.