pharaonis, Apogon Bellotti [C.] 1874:264 [Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali di Milano v. 17 (fasc. 3); ref. 16777] Suez, Gulf of Suez, Egypt, Red Sea. Holotype: MSNM (destroyed in 1943). Type catalog: Conci & Michelangeli 1974:219 [ref. 21560]. •Synonym of Apogon nigripinnis Cuvier 1828 -- (Dor 1984:113 [ref. 29757]). •Valid as Apogon pharaonis Bellotti 1874 -- (Gon 2000:9 [ref. 26650], Gon & Randall 2003:20 [ref. 26750], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S106 [ref. 27377], Fricke et al. 2007:82 [ref. 29533], Zenetos et al. 2010:411 [ref. 31201], Golani & Bogorodsky 2010:68 [ref. 35264]). •Valid as Apogonichthyoides pharaonis (Bellotti 1874) -- (Fraser & Allen 2010:44 [ref. 30717], Fraser & Allen 2011:68 [ref. 31605], Mabuchi et al. 2014:202 [ref. 33426], Irmak & Engin 2015:186 [ref. 33909], Psomadakis et al. 2015:207 [ref. 34104], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[20] 258 [ref. 36492], Golani & Fricke 2018:72 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:35 [ref. 37020], Kuiter & Kozawa 2019:159 [ref. 36965], Bariche & Fricke 2020:121 [ref. 37515], Al Mabruk et al. 2021:114 [ref. 38201], Golani 2021:44 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:66 [ref. 39014], Fraser et al. 2022:212 [ref. 39752], Karakuş et al. 2023:291 [ref. 40724], Moazzam & Osmany 2023:67 [ref. 40689]). Current status: Valid as Apogonichthyoides pharaonis (Bellotti 1874). Apogonidae: Apogoninae. Distribution: Red Sea; western Indian Ocean: East Africa and Persian Gulf east to India; eastern Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: marine.