abax, Asterropteryx Jordan [D. S.] & Snyder [J. O.] 1901:40, Fig. 2 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 24 (no. 1244); ref. 2509] Misaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Sagami Sea, Japan. Holotype: CAS-SU 6445. Paratypes: CAS 43534 [ex CAS-SU 6445] (5); CAS-SU 6652 (6), 9784 (17); ?USNM 49917 (2). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:140-141 [ref. 2676], Böhlke 1953:105 [ref. 12291]. Types: Shinohara & Williams 2006:563 [ref. 31656]. •Valid as Eviota abax (Jordan & Snyder 1901) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:342 [ref. 7348], Yoshino & Shimada in Masuda et al. 1984:243 [ref. 6441], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:637 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1178 [ref. 25182], Shinohara et al. 2000:182 [ref. 25987], Nakabo 2002:1178 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:399, 660 [ref. 26218], Matsuura & Senou 2006:347 [ref. 28813], Greenfield & Randall 2010:271 [ref. 30765], Motomura et al. 2010:209 [ref. 31256], Hoese & Stewart 2012:66 [ref. 32113], Greenfield & Jewett 2014:58 [ref. 33326], Matsui et al. 2014:12 [ref. 33344], Greenfield & Winterbottom 2016:38 [ref. 34537] as abex, Greenfield & Winterbottom 2016:41 [ref. 35011], Koeda et al. 2016:90 [ref. 35333], Greenfield 2017:34 [ref. 35705], Kwun et al. 2017:143 [ref. 37287], Kim et al. 2020:169 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:104 [ref. 37637], Parenti 2021:137 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Eviota abax (Jordan & Snyder 1901). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: southern Korea and Japan. Habitat: marine.