poecilopterus, Apogon Cuvier [G.] (ex Kuhl & van Hasselt) in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828:154 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 2; ref. 997] Java, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): RMNH 214. Type catalog: Bauchot & Desoutter 1987:94 [ref. 12478]. •Valid as Apogonichthys poecilopterus Cuvier 1828 -- (Mishra & Krishnan 2003:29 [ref. 27712] with authorship as Kulhl and van Hasselt). •Valid as Apogon poecilopterus Cuvier 1828 -- (Allen & Swainston 1988:68 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:550 [ref. 12442], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:222 [ref. 24016], Gon 1997:172 [ref. 23065], Allen 1997:104 [ref. 23977], Larson & Williams 1997:357 [ref. 23967], Allen 1999:2606 [ref. 24812], Johnson 1999:732 [ref. 25471], Fraser 2000:252 [ref. 24412], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:613 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:32 [ref. 25847], Hayashi 2004:46 [ref. 27898], Allen et al. 2006:1093 [ref. 29004], Shibukawa 2009:107 [ref. 30449], Yoshida et al. 2013:108 [ref. 34464]). •Valid as Jaydia poecilopterus (Cuvier 1828) -- (Larson et al. 2013:111 [ref. 32988], Mabuchi et al. 2014:202 [ref. 33426], Motomura et al. 2017:98 [ref. 35490]). •Valid as Ostorhinchus poecilopterus (Cuvier 1828) -- (Fricke et al. 2014:76 [ref. 33932]). •Valid as Jaydia poeciloptera (Cuvier 1829) -- (Gon et al. 2015:291 [ref. 33858] as poecilopterus, Fraser & Prokofiev 2016:229 [ref. 34742], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:115 [ref. 36460], Kuiter & Kozawa 2019:165 [ref. 36965], Psomadakis et al. 2020:405 [ref. 37272], Yu et al. 2021:974 [ref. 40905]). Current status: Valid as Jaydia poeciloptera (Cuvier 1828). Apogonidae: Apogoninae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: India and Myanmar east to Philippines, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: brackish, marine.