modestus, Gobiopterus Regan [C. T.] 1908:242, Pl. 29 (fig. 1) [The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Second Series. Zoology v. 12 (pt 3); ref. 3634] Egmont Island and Salomon Island, Chagos Archipelago, Indian Ocean. Syntypes: (several) BMNH 1908.3.23.235-241 (3 + 4 + 1), 1908.3.23.242-247 (6), 1908.3.23.248-250 (3), 1980.6.12.1 (1). •Valid as Paragobiodon modestus (Regan 1908) -- (Yoshino & Yamamoto in Masuda et al. 1984:266 [ref. 6441], Hoese 1986:799 [ref. 5670], Randall & Goren 1993:18 [ref. 21131], Myers 1999:258 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:518 [ref. 24106], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:639 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1186 [ref. 25182], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3599 [ref. 26293], Randall et al. 2002:161 [ref. 26192], Nakabo 2002:1186 [ref. 26193], Heemstra et al. 2004:3329 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:545 [ref. 28239], Fricke & Kulbicki 2006:351 [ref. 28867], Hoese & Larson 2006:1671 [ref. 29097], Fricke et al. 2009:103 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:216 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:903 [ref. 31980], Prokofiev 2016:652 [ref. 35020], Dewa et al. 2022:27 [ref. 40001], Larson 2022:120 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:21 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Paragobiodon modestus (Regan 1908). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Seychelles and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Marshall Islands and Society Islands (French Polynesia), north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to Lord Howe Island (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.