smithi, Jaydia Kotthaus [A.] 1970:59, Fig. 238 [Meteor Forschungsergebnisse. Reihe D, Biologie No. 6; ref. 21596] Gulf of Aden, Somali coast, northwestern Indian Ocean, 11°17.9'N, 49°01.3'E to 11°18.2'N, 49°04'E, depth 42 meters. Holotype: ZMH 5033 [ex IOES 120a]. Paratypes: ZMH 5034 [ex IOES 120b-y] (24). Type catalog: Wilkens & Dohse 1993:417 [ref. 21161]. •Valid as Apogon smithi (Kotthaus 1970) -- (Gon 1997:177 [ref. 23065], Adam et al. 1998:12 [ref. 23610], Myers 1999:125 [ref. 23965], Fraser 2000:252 [ref. 24412], Gon & Randall 2003:24 [ref. 26750], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S106 [ref. 27377], Shao et al. 2008:250 [ref. 29952], Yoshida et al. 2013:108 [ref. 34464], Irmak & Engin 2015:186 [ref. 33909]). •Valid as Jaydia smithi Kotthaus 1970 -- (Mabuchi et al. 2014:202 [ref. 33426], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:420 [ref. 33460], Fraser & Prokofiev 2016:239 [ref. 34742], Yu et al. 2016:3 [ref. 34816], Motomura et al. 2017:98 [ref. 35490], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[20] 258 [ref. 36492], Golani & Fricke 2018:75 [ref. 36273], Bariche & Fricke 2020:121 [ref. 37515], Psomadakis et al. 2020:406 [ref. 37272], Golani 2021:45 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:66 [ref. 39014], Fraser et al. 2022:216 [ref. 39752]). Current status: Valid as Jaydia smithi Kotthaus 1970. Apogonidae: Apogoninae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Tanzania, Gulf of Aden and Gulf of Oman east to Philippines and Marshall Islands, north to Taiwan; Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: marine.