retrosella, Amia Gill [T. N.] 1862:251 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 14; ref. 4909] Baja California, Mexico. Syntypes: USNM 2454 (orig. 1, now 6), 2997 (3), 4001 (1, not found in 1980), 4002 (?, not found in 1980), 4003 (0, not found in 1980), 4413 (now 3). •Valid as Apogon retrosella (Gill 1862) -- (Allen & Robertson 1994:123 [ref. 22193], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:55 [ref. 24545], Thomson et al. 2000:111 [ref. 25640], Fraser & Randall 2002:26 [ref. 25969], Nelson et al. 2004:138 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:114 [ref. 37547], Page et al. 2013:143 [ref. 32708], Mabuchi et al. 2014:197 [ref. 33426], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:146 [ref. 34871], Fourriére et al. 2016:445 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:609 [ref. 34923], Piñeros et al. 2018:234 [ref. 36377], González-Murcia et al. 2019:301 [ref. 36544], Kuiter & Kozawa 2019:28 [ref. 36965], Walker et al. 2020:4 [ref. 37499], Love et al. 2021:151 [ref. 39279], Lea et al. 2022:111 [ref. 39165], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Apogon retrosella (Gill 1862). Apogonidae: Apogoninae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Gulf of California (Mexico) and coast of Mexico, straying to southern California (U.S.A.). Habitat: marine.