multisquamatus, Pseudoplesiops Allen [G. R.] 1987:257, Figs. 5-6 [Records of the Western Australian Museum v. 13 (pt 2); ref. 6247] Escape Reef, Great Barrier Reef, outside of northern passage, Queensland, Australia, 15°50'S, 145°50'E, depth 40 meters. Holotype: WAM P.27470-002. Paratypes: AMS I.20775-007 (4), I.22627-012 (1); ANSP 137860-61 (3, 3); BPBM 30929 (2); ROM 50734 (4); USNM 278458 (2); WAM P.26082-019 (1), P.26087-012 (2), P.26097-010 (1), P.26099-011 (2), P.26116-010 (1), P.26121-003 (1), P.27476-001 (1), P.27659-025 (1), P.27826-041 (3), P.28170-010 (3), P.28172-007 (4), P.28174-028 (1), P.28541-030 (3). Type catalog: Hutchins & Smith 1991:20 [ref. 19335], Moore et al. 2008:22 [ref. 30117]. •Valid as Pseudoplesiops multisquamatus Allen 1987 -- (Paxton et al. 1989:521 [ref. 12442], Randall et al. 1990:131 [ref. 15987], Kuiter 1997:126 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:131 [ref. 25919], Gill 1999:2567 [ref. 24817], Allen 2000:87 [ref. 37268]). •Valid as Lubbockichthys multisquamatus (Allen 1987) -- (Gill & Edwards 1999:145 [ref. 24077], Hutchins 2001:30 [ref. 25847], Gill & Senou 2002:2 [ref. 26520], Allen & Adrim 2003:33 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:622 [ref. 27495] as cf. multisquamatus, Allen et al. 2006:1071 [ref. 29085], Allen & Erdmann 2012:320 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:66 [ref. 33932] with author as Müller & Troschel 1849, Fricke et al. 2019:128 [ref. 36673], Allen & Erdmann 2024:339 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Lubbockichthys multisquamatus (Allen 1987). Pseudochromidae: Pseudoplesiopinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Christmas Island, Cocos-Keeling Islands (Australia) and Indonesia east to Philippines and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to Great Barrier Reef (Australia) and Solomon Islands. Habitat: marine.