okinawae, Gobiodon Sawada [Y.], Arai [R.] & Abe [T.] 1972:57, Fig. 1 [Japanese Journal of Ichthyology v. 19 (no. 2); ref. 7642] Kayama Island, Yaeyama Islands, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Holotype: NSMT-P 17438. Paratypes: NSMT-P 17437 (1), 17439-40 (1, 1), 17441-53 (13). •Valid as Gobiodon okinawae Sawada, Arai & Abe 1972 -- (Yoshino & Yamamoto in Masuda et al. 1984:266 [ref. 6441], Randall et al. 1990:403 [ref. 15987], Harold & Winterbottom 1995:687 [ref. 21923], Randall et al. 1997:403 [ref. 25919], Harold & Winterbottom 1999:56 [ref. 23701], Myers 1999:256 [ref. 23965], Munday et al. 1999:55 [ref. 24284], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:638 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:411 [ref. 25191], Allen 2000:120 [ref. 25868], Nakabo 2000:1187 [ref. 25182], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3597 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1187 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:59 [ref. 26830], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:185 [ref. 27510], Randall 2005:538 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Larson 2006:1657 [ref. 29097], Harold et al. 2008:120 [ref. 29450], Suzuku et al. 2012:60 [ref. 32027], Allen & Erdmann 2012:898 [ref. 31980], Shibukawa et al. 2013:144 [ref. 32951], Larson et al. 2013:199 [ref. 32988], Prokofiev 2016:652 [ref. 35020], Allen 2021:18 [ref. 38272], Parenti 2021:170 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Gobiodon okinawae Sawada, Arai & Abe 1972. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Cocos-Keeling Islands (Australia) east to Marshall Islands and Solomon Islands, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.