oplopomus, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] (ex Ehrenberg) in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:66 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Massawa, Eritrea, Red Sea. Ehrenberg specimens (possible syntypes): ?MNHN uncat. (1, whereabouts unknown), ZMB 2060-61 (3, 4). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:58 [ref. 19958], MNHN 'holotype' apparently lost. Based on description of Oplopomus pulcher in manuscript by Ehrenberg, and underlying specimens (syntypes). No explicit mentioning of a single holotype in original description [except 'un petit poisson' (a small fish), which may refer to the species rather than to a specimen], so the Ehrenberg specimens in ZMB maybe syntypes. •Valid as Oplopomus oplopomus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Goren 1979:48 [ref. 1852], Dor 1984:248 [ref. 29757], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:254 [ref. 6441], Hoese 1986:796 [ref. 5670], Randall et al. 1990:405 [ref. 15987], Randall & Goren 1993:15 [ref. 21131], Goren & Dor 1994:65 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:339 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:213 [ref. 23922], Kuiter 1997:350 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:405 [ref. 25919], Iwata et al. 1998:117 [ref. 23379], Suzuki et al. 1999:7 [ref. 24395], Myers 1999:243 [ref. 23965], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:639 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1196 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:413 [ref. 25191], Allen 2000:121 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3598 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1196 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:59 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S119 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:643 [ref. 27495], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:187 [ref. 27510], Adrim et al. 2004:126 [ref. 27715], Heemstra et al. 2004:3329 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:543 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Larson 2006:1668 [ref. 29097], Larson et al. 2008:150 [ref. 29532], Shao et al. 2008:262 [ref. 29952], Shibukawa 2009:281 [ref. 30449], Allen & Erdmann 2012:983 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:175 [ref. 32988], Larson et al. 2013:203 [ref. 32988], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:429 [ref. 33460], Koeda et al. 2016:93 [ref. 35333], Ali et al. 2018:337 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:335 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:158 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:65 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:287 [ref. 36673], Akaike et al. 2021:29 [ref. 38809], Larson 2022:117 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:20 [ref. 40247], Sato et al. 2023:15 [ref. 40019]). Current status: Valid as Oplopomus oplopomus (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Persian Gulf, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and eastern Mascarenes (Rodrigues) east to Marshall Islands and Society Islands (French Polynesia), north to Ryukyu Islands and Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.