evansi, Anthias Smith [J. L. B.] 1954:1, Fig. 1 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 12) v. 7 (no. 73) (art. 1); ref. 4090] Shimoni, Kenya, western Indian Ocean. Holotype: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 125. Paratypes: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 38094 (6 not 5). Type catalog: Anderson 2018:39 [ref. 36146]. •Valid as Anthias evansi Smith 1954 -- (Heemstra 1973:207 [ref. 55], Heemstra & Randall 1986:512 [ref. 5667], Fricke 1999:207 [ref. 24106]). •Valid as Pseudanthias evansi (Smith 1954) -- (Allen 2000:87 [ref. 37268], Randall & Pyle 2001:34 [ref. 25690], Allen & Adrim 2003:32 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S104 [ref. 27377], Heemstra et al. 2004:3319 [ref. 27945], Fricke et al. 2009:48 [ref. 30213], Motomura in Motomura & Satapoomin 2009:93 [ref. 30492], Caratini & Soriano 2011:6 [ref. 39915], Allen & Erdmann 2012:293 [ref. 31980], Heemstra & Akhilesh 2012:125, 141 [ref. 32094], Fricke et al. 2013:257 [ref. 32706], Anderson 2018:39 [ref. 36146], Fricke et al. 2018:157 [ref. 35805], Zajonz et al. 2019:69 [ref. 36871], Parenti & Randall 2020:35 [ref. 37354], Akhilesh et al. 2021:55 [ref. 38701], Durville et al. 2021:311 [ref. 38802], Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:106 [ref. 39746]). •Valid as Mirolabrichthys evansi (Smith 1954) -- (Winterbottom et al. 1989:27 [ref. 13251], Gill 2022:52 [ref. 38980]). Current status: Valid as Mirolabrichthys evansi (Smith 1954). Anthiadidae. Distribution: Indian Ocean: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Comoros, Madagascar, Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues), Maldives and Chagos Archipelago east to Cocos-Keeling Island and Christmas Islands (Australia), north to Andaman Sea and western Sumatra (Indonesia). Habitat: marine.