lachneri, Sueviota Winterbottom [R.] & Hoese [D. F.] 1988:9, Figs. 6-7 [Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Occasional Paper No. 37; ref. 9274] Drop off on east side of Isle Poule, Salomon Atoll, Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean. Holotype: ROM 44143. Paratypes: AMS I.24633-002 (24), I.24634-001 (2); BMNH 1984.6.24.1-9 (9); BPBM 29662 (10); ROM (26 lots, 119, 5 c&s); SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 20710 (7); USNM 266732 (8). •Valid as Sueviota lachneri Winterbottom & Hoese 1988 -- (Randall & Goren 1993:21 [ref. 21131], Nakabo 2000:1184 [ref. 25182], Hutchins 2001:44 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3599 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1184 [ref. 26193], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:190 [ref. 27510], Heemstra et al. 2004:3329 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:552 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Larson 2006:1685 [ref. 29097], Shibukawa 2009:286 [ref. 30449], Dimara et al. 2010:621 [ref. 31108], Allen & Erdmann 2012:934 [ref. 31980], Allen et al. 2016:81 [ref. 34410], Allen & Erdmann 2017:5 [ref. 35130], Greenfield & Randall 2017:9 [ref. 35230], Greenfield et al. 2019:84 [ref. 37043], Akaike et al. 2021:30 [ref. 38809], Parenti 2021:225 [ref. 38603], Dewa et al. 2022:29 [ref. 40001], Larson 2022:135 [ref. 39971], Nunes Peinemann et al. 2024:26 [ref. 41563]). Current status: Valid as Sueviota lachneri Winterbottom & Hoese 1988. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Seychelles, Comoros, Mascarenes (Mauritius, Rodrigues), Maldives and Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory) east to Fiji, north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan) and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Great Barrier Reef (Queensland, Australia). Habitat: marine.