bimaculatus, Cyclopterus Bonnaterre [J. P.] (ex Pennant) 1788:29, Pl. 86 (fig. 355) [Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie; ref. 4940] Seas of England. No types known. Based on 'The bimaculated sucker' of Pennant 1776:397, Pl. 22 [ref. 18528]. •Valid as Diplecogaster bimaculata (Bonnaterre 1788) -- (Briggs 1955:29 [ref. 637], Briggs 1973:652 [ref. 7222], Briggs in Whitehead et al. 1986:1354 [ref. 13677], Hofrichter 1995:137 [ref. 30502], Santos et al. 1997:102 [ref. 23531], Hofrichter & Patzner 1997:21 [ref. 23741], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:56 [ref. 26753], Fricke et al. 2007:100 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:134 [ref. 30517], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:174 [ref. 31251] as bimaculata bimaculata, Lipej & Dulčić 2010:32 [ref. 36649] as bimaculatus, Parin et al. 2015:371[ref. 33547], Fricke et al. 2015:5 [ref. 33962], Fricke et al. in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2809 [ref. 34618], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2017:210 [ref. 35501], Fricke & Wirtz 2017:6 [ref. 35696], Artüz & Fricke 2019:554 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:205 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:94 [ref. 36864], Kovačić et al. 2020:31 [ref. 37519], Abliazov et al. 2021:11 [ref. 38576] as bimaculata bimaculata, Bañón & Maño 2021:63 [ref. 38883], Kovačić et al. 2021:55 [ref. 39014], Fricke & Wirtz 2023:8 [ref. 40196], Renoult et al. 2023:41 [ref. 40491] as cf. bimaculata). Current status: Valid as Diplecogaster bimaculata (Bonnaterre 1788). Gobiesocidae: Lepadogastrinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; northeastern Atlantic: Norway and Faroes south to Gibraltar. Habitat: brackish, marine.