yongei, Cottogobius Davis [W. P.] & Cohen [D. M.] 1969:752, Figs. 1, 4-6 [Bulletin of Marine Science v. 18 (no. 4); ref. 7883] Darvel Bay, west of Tatagan Island, Borneo [off southeastern Sabah, Malaysia, Sulawesi Sea, western Pacific], depth 6 meters. Holotype: USNM 200402. Paratypes: USNM 200403 (7). •Valid as Tenacigobius yongei (Davis & Cohen 1969) -- (Goren & Diamant 1983 [ref. 21386], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:284 [ref. 6441], Larson & Hoese 1980:40 [ref. 2725]). •Valid as Bryaninops yongei (Davis & Cohen 1969) -- (Larson 1985:62 [ref. 5186], Okiyama & Tsukamoto 1989 [ref. 13564], Randall et al. 1990:397 [ref. 15987], Goren & Dor 1994:63 [ref. 25356], Chen et al. 1995:284 [ref. 22339], Randall et al. 1997:397 [ref. 25919], Anderson et al. 1998:27 [ref. 23611], Carpenter et al. 1997:213 [ref. 23922], Kuiter 1997:358 [ref. 25488], Myers 1999:247 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:504 [ref. 24106] as youngei, Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:636 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1214 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:408 [ref. 25191], Allen 2000:119 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:42 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3595 [ref. 26293], Randall et al. 2002:160 [ref. 26192], Nakabo 2002:1214 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:57 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:643 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:26 [ref. 27624], Greenfield & Randall 2004:513 [ref. 28175], Randall 2005:522 [ref. 28239], Herler & Hilgers 2005:108 [ref. 28528], Mundy 2005:473 [ref. 28379], Randall et al. 2005:128 [ref. 28745], Hoese & Larson 2006:1631 [ref. 29097], Randall 2007:397 [ref. 30952], Motomura et al. 2010:206 [ref. 31256], Caratini & Soriano 2011:36 [ref. 39915] as youngei, Suzuki et al. 2012:15 [ref. 31776], Allen & Erdmann 2012:896 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:159 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:7 [ref. 33988], Fricke et al. 2018:327 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:149 [ref. 36273], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:122 [ref. 40104], Eagderi et al. 2019:60 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:275 [ref. 36673], Akaike et al. 2021:26 [ref. 38809], Parenti 2021:107 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:55 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:6 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Bryaninops yongei (Davis & Cohen 1969). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), Persian Gulf, Amirantes (Seychelles), Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia), New Caledonia, Tonga and Rapa (French Polynesia). Habitat: marine.
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