lacunicola, Ruppellia Kendall [W. C.] & Goldsborough [E. L.] 1911:318, Pl. 6 (fig. 1) [Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology v. 26 (pt 7); ref. 2594] Lagoon at Fakarava, Paumotu [Tuamotu] Islands, French Polynesia, South Pacific. Holotype (unique): USNM 66006. Type catalog: Koumans 1940:129 [ref. 2676]. The species epithet is treated as a noun in apposition. •Valid as Paragobiodon lacunicolus (Kendall & Goldsborough 1911) -- (Yoshino & Yamamoto in Masuda et al. 1984:267 [ref. 6441], Hoese 1986:799 [ref. 5670], Randall & Goren 1993:18 [ref. 21131], Francis 1993:167 [ref. 25479], Myers 1999:257 [ref. 23965], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:639 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1185 [ref. 25182], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3598 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1185 [ref. 26193], Myers & Donaldson 2003:645 [ref. 27495], Lobel & Lobel 2004:76 [ref. 27576], Randall 2005:544 [ref. 28239], Randall et al. 2005:129 [ref. 28745], Hoese & Larson 2006:1671 [ref. 29097], Shao et al. 2008:262 [ref. 29952], Motomura et al. 2010:216 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:902 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:169 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2018:337 [ref. 35805], Mochizuki et al. 2021:52 [ref. 38974], Larson 2022:120 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:21 [ref. 40247], Sato et al. 2023:15 [ref. 40019]). •Valid as Paragobiodon lacunicola (Kendall & Goldsborough 1911). Current status: Valid as Paragobiodon lacunicola (Kendall & Goldsborough 1911). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Madagascar, Maldives and Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory) east to Line Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia), north to Kagoshima Prefecture (Japan), south to northern Australia and Lord Howe Island (Australia). Habitat: marine.