gularis, Apogon Fraser [T. H.] & Lachner [E. A.] 1984:632, Figs. 1-2 [Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington v. 97 (no. 3); ref. 8229] Southern Red Sea, Yemen, 14°55'N, 42°28'E. Holotype: USNM 225672. Paratypes: ANSP (5), AMS 24052-001 [ex USNM 225678] (5), BMNH 1983.9.19.1-5 (5), BPBM 29204 (5), CAS 53044 (5), NMNH (5), SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 19406 (5); USNM 203774 (26, 2 c&s), 225673-77 (8, 6, 4, 20, 1) 225678 (orig. 146, now 111), USNM 225679-80 (31, 1). Type catalog: Bauchot & Desoutter 1987:60 [ref. 12478]. •Valid as Apogon gularis Fraser & Lachner 1984 -- (Mee 1996:106 [ref. 22471], Goren & Dor 1994:30 [ref. 25356], Fraser 1998:990 [ref. 23602], Gon & Randall 2003:16 [ref. 26750], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S106 [ref. 27377], Yoshida et al. 2013:107 [ref. 34464]). •Valid as Ostorhinchus gularis (Fraser & Lachner 1984) -- (Allen & Erdmann 2012:394 [ref. 31980], Fraser 2012:82 [ref. 32177], Mabuchi et al. 2014:200 [ref. 33426], Psomadakis et al. 2015:210 [ref. 34104], Fraser & Prokofiev 2016:229 [ref. 34742], Golani & Fricke 2018:77 [ref. 36273], Yoshida et al. 2018:237 [ref. 36265], Eagderi et al. 2019:38 [ref. 37020], Kuiter & Kozawa 2019:99 [ref. 36965], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 13 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:409 [ref. 37272], Fraser et al. 2022:199 [ref. 39752], Moazzam & Osmany 2023:61 [ref. 40689], Allen & Erdmann 2024:419 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Ostorhinchus gularis (Fraser & Lachner 1984). Apogonidae: Apogoninae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), Mozambique, Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman east to Philippines. Habitat: marine.