decoratus, Rhinogobius Herre [A. W. C. T.] 1927:181, Pl. 13 (fig. 3) [Monographs, Bureau of Science Manila Monogr. 23; ref. 2104] West side Apo Island, Philippines [Bohol Sea, western Pacific], 9°04'25"N, 123°16'05"E, depth 0-20 feet. Neotype: USNM 254289. Type catalog: Koumans 1940:186 [ref. 2676]. Original syntypes: BSMP 13056 (1), 26881-82 (1, 1) destroyed but seen by Koumans. Neotype designated by Murdy & Hoese 1985:30 [ref. 5237]. •Valid as Istigobius decoratus (Herre 1927) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:252 [ref. 6441], Hoese 1986:793 [ref. 5670], Allen & Swainston 1988:136 [ref. 25477], Randall et al. 1990:404 [ref. 15987], Randall & Goren 1993:15 [ref. 21131], Kuiter 1993:345 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:167 [ref. 25479], Randall et al. 1994:248 [ref. 21645], Goren & Dor 1994:65 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:338 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:218 [ref. 23977], Carpenter et al. 1997:215 [ref. 23922], Randall et al. 1997:404 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:256 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:516 [ref. 24106], Johnson 1999:749 [ref. 25471], Allen 2000:93 [ref. 37268], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:638 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1213 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:412 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:239, 248 [ref. 25480], Allen 2000:120 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3598 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1213 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:59 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S119 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:644 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:28 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:126 [ref. 27715], Heemstra et al. 2004:3329 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:538 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Larson 2006:1660 [ref. 29097], Larson et al. 2008:149 [ref. 29532], Fricke et al. 2009:102 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:214 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:979 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:200 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:167 [ref. 33932], Koeda et al. 2016:92 [ref. 35333], Suzuki et al. 2017:80 [ref. 35202], Fricke et al. 2018:334 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:157 [ref. 36273], Arndt & Fricke 2019:17 [ref. 36883], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:124 [ref. 40104], Eagderi et al. 2019:64 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:285 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:96 [ref. 36871], Akaike et al. 2021:28 [ref. 38809], Parenti 2021:187 [ref. 38603], Wada in Motomura et al. 2021:72 [ref. 38121], Larson 2022:111 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:18 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Istigobius decoratus (Herre 1927). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Rotuma (Fiji) and Tonga, north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to northern Australia, Lord Howe Island (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.