Diplecogaster Fraser-Brunner [A.] 1938:415 Fem. Cyclopterus bimaculatus Bonnaterre 1788. Type by original designation. •Valid as Diplecogaster Fraser-Brunner 1938 -- (Briggs 1955:28 [ref. 637], Briggs 1973:652 [ref. 7222], Allen 1984:629 [ref. 13673], Briggs in Whitehead et al. 1986:1353 [ref. 13677], Briggs 1986:379 [ref. 5643], Hofrichter & Patzner 1997:20 [ref. 23741], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:32 [ref. 36649], Parin et al. 2014:471 [ref. 33547], Fricke et al. 2015:4 [ref. 33962], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2017:210 [ref. 35501], Conway et al. 2020:889 [ref. 38030] in Lepadogastrinae, Fricke & Wirtz 2023:1 [ref. 40196]). Current status: Valid as Diplecogaster Fraser-Brunner 1938. Gobiesocidae: Lepadogastrinae.