aurifrons, Gnathypops Jordan [D. S.] & Thompson [J. C.] 1905:252, Fig. 4 (not fig. 6) [Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries v. 24 (for 1904); ref. 2538] Garden Key, Dry Tortugas, Florida, U.S.A. Holotype (unique): CAS-SU 8413. Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:89 [ref. 12291]. •Valid as Opisthognathus aurifrons (Jordan & Thompson 1905) -- (Böhlke & Thomas 1961:505 [ref. 41356]). •Valid as Opistognathus aurifrons (Jordan & Thompson 1905) -- (Robins & Ray 1986:216 [ref. 23100], Dennis & Bright 1988:9 [ref. 39782], Cervigón 1994:17 [ref. 24488], Smith-Vaniz 1997:1075 [ref. 22985], Aguilera 1998:52 [ref. 24221], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:158 [ref. 27754], Gasparini & Floeter 2001:1644 [ref. 25634] as cf. aurifrons, Collette et al. 2003:113 [ref. 26784], Smith-Vaniz 2003:1378 [ref. 27083], Smith et al. 2003:27 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:130 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:203 [ref. 28815], Page et al. 2013:134 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:43 [ref. 33341], Pinheiro et al. 2015:15 [ref. 34324] as aff. aurifrons, Robertson et al. 2016:145 [ref. 34961], Smith-Vaniz et al. 2018:118 [ref. 36264] as aff. aurifrons, Robertson et al. 2020:159 [ref. 38098], Carvalho-Filho 2023:217 [ref. 40480] as aff. aurifrons, Page et al. 2023:159 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Opistognathus aurifrons (Jordan & Thompson 1905). Opistognathidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Florida (U.S.A.) south to Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. IUCN (2015): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.