vaiulae, Foa Jordan [D. S.] & Seale [A.] 1906:249, Fig. 43 [Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries v. 25 (for 1905); ref. 2497] Apia, Upolu Island, Samoa Islands. Holotype (unique): USNM 51734. •Valid as Foa vaiulae Jordan & Seale 1906 -- (Paxton et al. 1989:554 [ref. 12442], Anderson et al. 1998:23 [ref. 23611], Hutchins 2001:32 [ref. 25847]). •Valid as Fowleria vaiulae (Jordan & Seale 1906) -- (Allen 1997:106 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:151 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:132 [ref. 23965], Allen 2000:88 [ref. 37268], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:614 [ref. 25122], Allen & Adrim 2003:36 [ref. 26830], Gon & Randall 2003:36 [ref. 26750], Myers & Donaldson 2003:624 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:14 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:200 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1102 [ref. 29004], Gon & Bogorodsky 2010:35 [ref. 31049], Yoshida et al. 2011:119 [ref. 32402], Allen & Erdmann 2012:381 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:72 [ref. 33932], Mabuchi et al. 2014:196 [ref. 33426], Mabuchi et al. 2015:40 [ref. 34429], Fricke et al. 2018:168 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:74 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:37 [ref. 37020], Kuiter & Kozawa 2019:15 [ref. 36965] as F. vaiulae complex, Zajonz et al. 2019:74 [ref. 36871], Fraser et al. 2022:174 [ref. 39752], Mochizuki et al. 2022:68 [ref. 39927], Allen & Erdmann 2024:405 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Fowleria vaiulae (Jordan & Seale 1906). Apogonidae: Apogoninae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Marshall Islands, Line Islands (Kiribati) and Society Islands (French Polynesia), north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia), and Tonga. Habitat: marine.