wardi, Austrolethops Whitley [G. P.] 1935:243, Fig. 10 [Records of the Australian Museum v. 19 (no. 4); ref. 4683] Boat Port Beach, Lindeman Island, Queensland, Australia. Holotype: AMS IA.6175. Type catalog: Koumans 1940:170 [ref. 2676]. •Valid as Austrolethops wardi Whitley 1935 -- (Hoese 1986:779 [ref. 5670], Myers 1999:245 [ref. 23965], Johnson 1999:748 [ref. 25471], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:635 [ref. 25122], Larson & Murdy 2001:3595 [ref. 26293], Myers & Donaldson 2003:643 [ref. 27495], Yoshigou et al. 2004:2 [ref. 28028], Hoese & Larson 2006:1625 [ref. 29097], Kneer et al. 2008:1095 [ref. 29530], Allen & Erdmann 2012:959 [ref. 31980], Parenti 2021:97 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:47 [ref. 39971], Onishi et al. 2024:2 [ref. 41276]). Current status: Valid as Austrolethops wardi Whitley 1935. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa (Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya) and Aldabra (Seychelles) east to Guam, north to Wakayama Prefecture (Japan), south to Great Barrier Reef (Queensland, Australia). Habitat: marine.