nitidus, Limnichthys Smith [J. L. B.] 1958:247, Fig. 1 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 13) v. 1 (no. 4); ref. 12115] Pinda, Mozambique, western Indian Ocean. Holotype: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 171. Paratypes: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 3733 (1), 3736 (1). •Valid as Limnichthys nitidus Smith 1958, valid subspecies nitidus -- (Rosa 1993:48 [ref. 41657]). •Valid as Limnichthys nitidus Smith 1958 -- (Nelson 1985:283 [ref. 5154], Nelson 1986:737 [ref. 5698], Winterbottom et al. 1989:59 [ref. 13251], Rosa 1993:43 [ref. 41657], Goren & Dor 1994:57 [ref. 25356], Yoshino et al. 1999:79 [ref. 23739], Fricke 1999:464 [ref. 24106], Nakabo 2000:1070 [ref. 25182], Nakabo 2002:1070 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:52 [ref. 26830], Lobel & Lobel 2004:75 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:24 [ref. 27624], Heemstra et al. 2004:3327 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:468 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:457 [ref. 28379], Hoese & Bray 2006:1499 [ref. 29000], Randall 2007:368 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:92 [ref. 30213], Fricke & Golani 2012:288 [ref. 31951], Allen & Erdmann 2012:761 [ref. 31980], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:7 [ref. 33988], Fricke et al. 2018:303 [ref. 35805], Arndt & Fricke 2019:14 [ref. 36883], Wada et al. 2021:46 [ref. 38521], Das et al. 2022:304 [ref. 39944], Fricke et al. 2024:70 [ref. 41255], Lee & Kim 2024:72 [ref. 41611]). Current status: Valid as Limnichthys nitidus Smith 1958. Creediidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Pitcairn, north to Amami Islands (southern Japan), south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.