polyophthalmus, Ophichthys Bleeker [P.] 1864:43 [Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde v. 2; ref. 408] Ambon Island, Molucca Islands, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. Bleeker specimens: BMNH 1867.11.28.261 (1) no locality. A secondary junior hymonym of Dalophis polyophthamus Bleeker 1853, but replacement name never used. •Valid as Ophichthus polyophthalmus Bleeker 1864 -- (McCosker 1977:81 [ref. 6836], Asano in Masuda et al. 1984:31 [ref. 6441], McCosker & Castle 1986:183 [ref. 5690], Quéro & Saldanha 1995:75 [ref. 22017], Myers 1999:57 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:66 [ref. 24106], Smith & McCosker 1999:1669 [ref. 24715], Nakabo 2000:222 [ref. 25086], McCosker in Randall & Lim 2000:586 [ref. 25122], McCosker 2002:26 [ref. 25848], Nakabo 2002:222 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:24 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S95 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:612 [ref. 27495] as polyophthalma, Tang & Zhang 2004:20 [ref. 27889], Mundy 2005:135 [ref. 28379], Randall 2007:68 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:19 [ref. 30213], Zhang et al. 2010:337 [ref. 31511], Allen & Erdmann 2012:109 [ref. 31980], McCosker et al. 2012:7 [ref. 31982], Kottelat 2013:46 [ref. 32989], McCosker 2014:339 [ref. 33288], McCosker & Ho 2015:72 [ref. 34123], Ho et al. 2015:173 [ref. 34130], Miesen et al. 2016:81 [ref. 34492], Hibino et al. 2019:302 [ref. 36433], McCosker et al. 2020:33 [ref. 37376], McCosker 2022:124 [ref. 39686], Jamandre 2023:160 [ref. 40455], Allen & Erdmann 2024:120 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Ophichthus polyophthalmus Bleeker 1864. Ophichthidae: Ophichthinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa and western Mascarenes east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Japan and Taiwan. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.