lepodogaster, Cyclopterus Bonnaterre [J. P.] (ex Goüan) 1788:29, Pl. 86 (fig. 356) [Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie; ref. 4940] Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon Region, France, western Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Originally spelled lepodogaster (spelling error), but treated (perhaps incorrectly) by authors as lepadogaster; continuation of current usage is suggested. Based on Lepadogaster of Goüan 1770:106 [ref. 1863]. Misspelled lepidogaster by Cabrera y Corro, Pérez & Hänseler in Graells 1887:181 [ref. 30438]. •Valid as Lepadogaster lepadogaster subspecies lepadogaster (Bonnaterre 1788) -- (Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:57 [ref. 26753], Golani 2005:27 [ref. 37112], Golani 2021:30 [ref. 38303]). •Valid as Lepadogaster lepadogaster (Bonnaterre 1788) -- (Briggs 1955:34 [ref. 637], Briggs 1973:654 [ref. 7222], Briggs in Whitehead et al. 1986:1357 [ref. 13677], Briggs 1990:475 [ref. 15498], Hofrichter 1995:111 [ref. 30502], Henriques et al. 2002:334 [ref. 26172], Almada et al. 2008:1154 [ref. 29550], Fricke et al. 2007:100 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:136 [ref. 30517], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:174 [ref. 31251], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:33 [ref. 36649], Parin et al. 2015:472 [ref. 33547], Fricke et al. in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2809 [ref. 34618], Artüz & Fricke 2019:554 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:205 [ref. 37250], Trkov et al. 2019:67 [ref. 36880], Bariche & Fricke 2020:49 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:31 [ref. 37519], Sahraoui & Refes in Gerovasileiou et al. 2020:343 [ref. 37890], Abliazov et al. 2021:11 [ref. 38576], Bañón & Maño 2021:62 [ref. 38883], Carballo et al. 2021:86 [ref. 39250], Kovačić et al. 2021:55 [ref. 39014], Ragkousis et al. 2021:12 [ref. 38358] as cf. lepadogaster). Current status: Valid as Lepadogaster lepadogaster (Bonnaterre 1788). Gobiesocidae: Lepadogastrinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: Galicia (Spain) south to Portugal, including Madeira and Canary Islands. Habitat: brackish, marine.