filifer, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:106 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Indian seas. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-0994. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:32 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Cryptocentrus filifer (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:363 [ref. 7348], Yanagisawa 1978:276 [ref. 7028], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:258 [ref. 6441], Randall 1995:333 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:213 [ref. 23922], Cheng & Zhou 1997:376 [ref. 26385], Fricke 1999:507 [ref. 24106], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:636 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1225 [ref. 25182], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:245 [ref. 25480], Larson & Murdy 2001:3596 [ref. 26293], Shimizu 2001:41 [ref. 25799], Wang et al. 2001:265 [ref. 26566] with authors as Cuvier & Valenciennes, Nakabo 2002:1225 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:399, 660 [ref. 26218], Matsui et al. 2014:11 [ref. 33344], Ali et al. 2018:337 [ref. 36183], Larson 2022:73 [ref. 39971]). •Valid as Myersina filifer (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Winterbottom 2002:70 [ref. 25955], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S119 [ref. 27377], Hoese & Larson 2004:168 [ref. 28074], Shibukawa & Satapoomin 2006:29 [ref. 28710], Larson et al. 2008:150 [ref. 29532], Fricke et al. 2009:102 [ref. 30213], Allen & Erdmann 2012:880 [ref. 31980], Yoshida et al. 2013:192 [ref. 34464], Prokofiev 2016:648 [ref. 35020], Greenfield & Randall 2018:98 [ref. 36091], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:263 [ref. 36460], Eagderi et al. 2019:65 [ref. 37020], Roy et al. 2019:296 [ref. 36920], Kim et al. 2020:173 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:106 [ref. 37637], Parenti 2021:200 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Myersina filifer (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf east to Indonesia, north to Korea and Japan; possibly western Mascarenes (La Réunion). Habitat: marine.