barbatum, Ophidion Linnaeus [C.] 1758:259 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Southern Europe. No types known. •Valid as Ophidium barbatum Linnaeus 1758 -- (Herrera 1896:67 [ref. 39336]). •Valid as Ophidion barbatum Linnaeus 1758 -- (Nielsen 1973:553 [ref. 6885], Nielsen in Whitehead et al. 1986:1164 [ref. 13677], Nielsen 1990:571 [ref. 16246], Matallanas 1990:452 [ref. 20154], Robins in Nielsen et al. 1999:40 [ref. 24448], Matallanas & Brito 1999:935 [ref. 24923], Dulĉić 2001:289 [ref. 25710], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:54 [ref. 26753], Goren & Galil 2002:150 [ref. 28414], Lea & Robins 2003:6 [ref. 27029], Golani 2005:26 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:65 [ref. 29533], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:31 [ref. 36649], Goren & Galil 2015:517 [ref. 33910], Nielsen 2016:1950 [ref. 34583], Artüz & Fricke 2019:554 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:158 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:94 [ref. 36864], Bariche & Fricke 2020:52 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:21 [ref. 37519] as Ophidium barbatum, Bañón & Maño 2021:61 [ref. 38883], Golani 2021:29 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:33 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:205 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Ophidion barbatum Linnaeus 1758. Ophidiidae: Ophidiinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: southern England south to Gabon, including Madeira. Habitat: marine.