barnesi, Hypoatherina Schultz [L. P.] in Schultz et al. 1953:304, Fig. 47 [Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 202, v. 1; ref. 3975] Lagoon one half mile off Rongelap Island, Rongelap Atoll, Marshall Islands, western Pacific. Holotype: USNM 140470. Paratypes: FMNH 62602 (2) [formerly USNM 140460], 62603 (2) [formerly USNM 140467]; SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 627 (1); USNM 65749 (16), 140457-59 (200, 1, 33), 140461-66 (2, 14, 13, 103, 220, 107), 140468-69 (13, 18), 140471 (5). Type catalog: Ibarra & Stewart 1987:48 [ref. 12367]. •Valid as Hypoatherina barnesi Schultz 1953 -- (Ivantsoff 1986:383 [ref. 6292], Paxton et al. 1989:359 [ref. 12442], Winterbottom et al. 1989:16 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:59 [ref. 15987], Goren & Dor 1994:17 [ref. 25356], Randall et al. 1997:59 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:73 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:113 [ref. 24106], Ivantsoff & Crowley 1999:2133 [ref. 24783], Allen 2000:85 [ref. 37268], Ivantsoff in Randall & Lim 2000:598 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:25 [ref. 25847], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S99 [ref. 27377], Paxton et al. 2006:710 [ref. 28995], Fricke et al. 2011:370 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:160 [ref. 31980], Sasaki & Kimura 2012:5, 7 [ref. 32345], Fricke et al. 2014:37 [ref. 33932], Sasaki & Kimura 2014:13 [ref. 33189], Fricke et al. 2018:101 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:44 [ref. 36273], Kimura 2022:332 [ref. 39715]). Current status: Valid as Hypoatherina barnesi Schultz 1953. Atherinidae: Atherinomorinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, East Africa, Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Madagascar and Mascarenes (Mauritius) east to Marshall Islands and Cook Islands, south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.