esakiae, Amblygobius Herre [A. W. C. T.] 1939:306 [Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses v. 18 (no. 4); ref. 10999] Koror, Palau Islands, western Pacific. Holotype: CAS-SU 37314. Paratypes: (1). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:107 [ref. 12291]. Named after a male, Prof. Tesio Esaki, so name should be changed to esakii. •Valid as Amblygobius esakiae Herre 1939 -- (Randall 1994:269 [ref. 21644], Myers 1999:242 [ref. 23965], Larson & Murdy 2001:3594 [ref. 26293], Allen & Adrim 2003:56 [ref. 26830] dated 1927, Allen & Erdmann 2012:955 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:157 [ref. 33932], Allen & Erdmann 2016:17 [ref. 35073], Parenti 2021:89 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:40 [ref. 39965], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:4 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Amblygobius esakiae Herre 1939. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Indonesia east to Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Palau. Habitat: marine.