frenatus, Lepadichthys Waite [E. R.] 1904:180, Pl. 24 (fig. 2) [Records of the Australian Museum v. 5 (no. 3); ref. 4561] Lord Howe Island. Syntypes: AMS I.3129 (1), I.6103 (1). •Valid as Lepadichthys frenatus Waite 1904 -- (Briggs 1955:139 [ref. 637], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:342 [ref. 6441], Francis 1993:158 [ref. 25479], Lindberg et al. 1997:192 [ref. 23547], Allen 1997:62 [ref. 23977], Johnson 1999:724 [ref. 25471], Randall 1999:26 [ref. 25829], Hutchins in Randall & Lim 2000:598 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1123 [ref. 25182], Shinohara et al. 2000:181 [ref. 25987], Briggs 2001:500 [ref. 25236], Hutchins 2001:3548 [ref. 26291], Nakabo 2002:1123 [ref. 26193], Randall 2005:506 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Bray 2006:1575 [ref. 29000], Motomura et al. 2010:200 [ref. 31256], Craig et al. 2015:121 [ref. 33898], Conway et al. 2017:547 [ref. 35580], Conway et al. 2018:97 [ref. 36157], Fujiwara & Motomura 2019:276 [ref. 36505], Yoshigou 2019:196 [ref. 36714], Fujiwara et al. 2020:[16] [ref. 37337], Fujiwara & Motomura 2020:843 [ref. 38019]). Current status: Valid as Lepadichthys frenatus Waite 1904. Gobiesocidae: Diademichthyinae. Distribution: Southwestern Pacific: Torres Strait to the Tasman Sea and Tonga (Queensland, Lord Howe and Norfolk islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and Tonga). Habitat: marine.