dactylopus, Callionymus Valenciennes [A.] (ex Bennett) in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:310 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] No locality. No types known. Type catalog: Fricke 1982:71 [ref. 5432], Fricke et al. 1984:108 [ref. 21539]. •Valid as Dactylopus dactylopus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Fricke 1982:71 [ref. 5432], Fricke 1983:483 [ref. 8349], Nakabo in Masuda et al. 1984:344 [ref. 6441], Allen & Swainston 1988:132 [ref. 25477], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:541 [ref. 27969], Larson & Williams 1997:367 [ref. 23967], Allen 1997:212 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:342 [ref. 25488], Myers 1999:232 [ref. 23965], Johnson 1999:747 [ref. 25471], Fricke in Randall & Lim 2000:634 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1128 [ref. 25182], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:236 [ref. 25480], Fricke 2001:3568 [ref. 26292] with author as Bennett, Hutchins 2001:42 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:1128 [ref. 26193], Fricke 2002:46 [ref. 26547] with author as Bennett, Allen & Adrim 2003:56 [ref. 26830] with author as Bennet, Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:172 [ref. 27510], Adrim et al. 2004:126 [ref. 27715], Hoese & Bray 2006:1581 [ref. 29000], Shibukawa 2009:255 [ref. 30449], Iwatsubo & Motomura 2010:68 [ref. 31555], Ng & Rainboth 2011:67 [ref. 31577], Ng 2012:35 [ref. 31795] with author as Bennett, Allen & Erdmann 2012:848 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:183 [ref. 32988], Yoshida et al. 2013:185 [ref. 34464], Motomura et al. 2017:195 [ref. 35490], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:248 [ref. 36460], Okamoto in Motomura et al. 2021:67 [ref. 38121], Vilasri et al. 2023:93 [ref. 40764]). Current status: Valid as Dactylopus dactylopus (Valenciennes 1837). Callionymidae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: eastern Andaman Sea, Malaysia and Indonesia east to Philippines, north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.