fo, Foa Jordan [D. S.] & Seale [A.] 1905:779, not Fig. 5 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 28 (no. 1407); ref. 2495] Cavite, Bacoor Bay, Manila Bay, Luzon, Philippines, 14.4668°, 120.890° [Negros, Cavite, Luzon Island, Philippines, Manila Bay, South China Sea, western Pacific]. Lectotype: CAS-SU 9672. Non-type: USNM 51735 (1) Samoa. Also appeared in Jordan & Seale 1906:248 [ref. 2497] with type as USNM 51735 from Samoa and a different figured specimen, but original locality is the Philippines; one original syntypes recently found and selected as the lectotype by Fraser & Randall 2011:10 [ref.31459]. •Valid as Foa fo Jordan & Seale 1905 -- (Myers 1999:132 [ref. 23965] dated 1906, Allen 1999:2607 [ref. 24812], Johnson 1999:733 [ref. 25471], Hutchins 2001:32 [ref. 25847], Allen & Adrim 2003:36 [ref. 26830], Gon & Randall 2003:34 [ref. 26750], Myers & Donaldson 2003:624 [ref. 27495] dated 1906, Randall et al. 2004:14 [ref. 27624] dated 1906, Heemstra et al. 2004:3320 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:200 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1102 [ref. 29004], Randall 2007:214 [ref. 30952], Fraser & Randall 2011:10 [ref. 31459], Allen & Erdmann 2012:379 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:109 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:71 [ref. 33932], Mabuchi et al. 2014:196 [ref. 33426], Golani & Fricke 2018:74 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:132 [ref. 36673], Kuiter & Kozawa 2019:8 [ref. 36965], Fraser 2020:25 [ref. 37581], Akaike et al. 2021:21 [ref. 38809], Wada et al. 2021:40 [ref. 38521], Fraser et al. 2022:172 [ref. 39752]). Current status: Valid as Foa fo Jordan & Seale 1905. Apogonidae: Apogoninae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, East Africa, Comoros, Mozambique Channel, Mascarenes, Maldives and Chagos Archipelago east to Philippines and Society Islands (French Polynesia), north to Amami Islands (southern Japan), south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia), New Caledonia, Tonga and Rapa (French Polynesia). Habitat: brackish, marine.