ornatissima, Vanderhorstia Smith [J. L. B.] 1959:192, Pl. 10 (fig. C) [Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University No. 13; ref. 4122] Pinda, Mozambique, western Indian Ocean. Holotype: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 205. Paratypes: (orig. 7) SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 890-893 (1, 1, 3, 3). •Valid as Vanderhorstia ornatissima Smith 1959 -- (Yanagisawa 1978:287 [ref. 7028], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:261 [ref. 6441], Allen & Swainston 1988:136 [ref. 25477], Randall et al. 1990:412 [ref. 15987], Randall & Goren 1993:25 [ref. 21131], Francis 1993:167 [ref. 25479], Francis & Randall 1993:124 [ref. 20996], Allen 1997:218 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:412 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:242 [ref. 23965], Nakabo 2000:1234 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:416 [ref. 25191], Randall & Earle 2000:20 [ref. 25806], Allen 2000:122 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:44 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3600 [ref. 26293], Randall et al. 2002:162 [ref. 26192], Nakabo 2002:1234 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:61 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:643 [ref. 27495], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:194 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:28 [ref. 27624], Heemstra et al. 2004:3330 [ref. 27945], Shibukawa & Suzuki 2004:116 [ref. 28014], Randall 2005:559 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Larson 2006:1696 [ref. 29097], Shao et al. 2008:262 [ref. 29952], Fricke et al. 2009:104 [ref. 30213], Bogorodsky et al. 2011:219 [ref. 31666], Freinschlag & Patzner 2012:42 [ref. 31789], Suzuki & Chen 2014207 [ref. 33152], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:8 [ref. 33988], Fricke et al. 2018:344 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:163 [ref. 36273], Allen et al. 2019:96 [ref. 37044], Larson 2022:154 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:26 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Vanderhorstia ornatissima Smith 1959. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar, Mascarenes (La Réunion, Madagascar, Rodrigues), Maldives and Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory) east to Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Japan and Taiwan, south to Rapa. Habitat: marine.
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