nigripinnis, Apogon Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828:152 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 2; ref. 997] Java, Indonesia; Puducherry, India. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-8694 (1) Puducherry. Type catalog: Bauchot & Desoutter 1987:61 [ref. 12478]. •Valid as Apogonichthys nigripinnis (Cuvier 1828) -- (Kyushin et al. 1982:190 [ref. 19754]). •Valid as Apogon nigripinnis Cuvier 1828 -- (Tortonese 1973:365 [ref. 7192], Dor 1984:113 [ref. 29757], Gon 1986:551 [ref. 5657], Allen & Swainston 1988:68 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:549 [ref. 12442], Coad 1991:26 [ref. 15702], Goren & Dor 1994:31 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:158 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:104 [ref. 23977], Carpenter et al. 1997:151 [ref. 23922], Golani 1998:97 [ref. 27567], Allen 1999:2606 [ref. 24812], Johnson 1999:732 [ref. 25471], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:613 [ref. 25122], Fraser 2000:258 [ref. 24412], Gon 2000:7 [ref. 26650], Hutchins 2001:31 [ref. 25847], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:80 [ref. 26753] dated 1838, Mishra & Krishnan 2003:28 [ref. 27712], Golani 2005:38 [ref. 37112], Allen et al. 2006:1092 [ref. 29004], Golani & Bogorodsky 2010:68 [ref. 35264]). •Valid as Apogonichthyoides nigripinnis (Cuvier 1828) -- (Fraser & Allen 2010:44 [ref. 30717], Fraser & Allen 2011:68 [ref. 31605], Larson et al. 2013:108 [ref. 32988], Mabuchi et al. 2014:202 [ref. 33426], Ali et al. 2018:320 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:165 [ref. 35805], Kuiter & Kozawa 2019:164 [ref. 36965], Psomadakis et al. 2020:404 [ref. 37272], Fraser et al. 2022:211 [ref. 39752], Moazzam & Osmany 2023:66 [ref. 40689]). Current status: Valid as Apogonichthyoides nigripinnis (Cuvier 1828). Apogonidae: Apogoninae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indian Ocean: East Africa, Madagascar and Persian Gulf east to Myanmar, Arafura Sea and northern Australia. Habitat: marine.