Species that contain: Apogon and talboti [ 1 ] records talboti, Apogon Smith [J. L. B.] 1961:387, Pl. 47 (fig. A) [Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University No. 22; ref. 4128] Zanzibar, Tanzania, western Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 353. •Valid as Ostorhinchus talboti (Smith 1961) -- (Allen & Erdmann 2012:404 [ref. 31980]). •Valid as Apogon talboti Smith 1961 -- (Winterbottom et al. 1989:30 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:146 [ref. 15987], Randall et al. 1997:146 [ref. 25919], Allen 2000:88 [ref. 37268], Allen & Adrim 2003:36 [ref. 26830], Gon & Randall 2003:26 [ref. 26750], Randall et al. 2004:14 [ref. 27624] as cf. talboti, Greenfield & Randall 2004:566 [ref. 28162], Allen et al. 2006:1095 [ref. 29004], Greenfield 2007:601 [ref. 29453], Shao et al. 2008:250 [ref. 29952], Mabuchi et al. 2014:197 [ref. 33426], Psomadakis et al. 2015:205 [ref. 34104] as cf. talboti, Mabuchi et al. 2015:42 [ref. 34429], Golani & Fricke 2018:72 [ref. 36273], Kuiter & Kozawa 2019:32 [ref. 36965], Gon et al. 2020:499 [ref. 38029], Fraser et al. 2022:179 [ref. 39752], Allen & Erdmann 2024:394 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Apogon talboti Smith 1961. Apogonidae: Apogoninae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Tanzania and Mascarenes (Mauritius) east to Society Islands (French Polynesia), north to Taiwan, south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia) and Chesterfield Islands (New Caledonia). Habitat: marine.
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