nigripinna, Eviota Lachner [E. A.] & Karnella [S. J.] 1980:37, Figs. 15, 18, 19 [Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 315; ref. 6916] North Island, Agalega Islands, southwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype: USNM 213929. Paratypes: AMS I.20801-001 (5); ANSP 141139 (5); BPBM 16285 (1); CAS 33436 (7), 43536 (5); SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 1963 (1); USNM 213902-04 (1, 3, 2), 213919 (1), 213925-28 (93, 6, 1, 74). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:108 [ref. 13621]. •Valid as Eviota nigripinna Lachner & Karnella 1980 -- (Randall & Goren 1993:10 [ref. 21131], Fricke 1999:509 [ref. 24106], Fricke et al. 2009:101 [ref. 30213], Greenfield & Randall 2010:271 [ref. 30765], Hoese & Stewart 2012:66 [ref. 32113], Greenfield et al. 2014:487 [ref. 33193], Greenfield & Jewett 2014:58 [ref. 33326] as cf. nigrapinna, Greenfield & Winterbottom 2016:57 [ref. 35011], Greenfield 2017:35 [ref. 35705], Arndt & Fricke 2019:16 [ref. 36883], Moore et al. 2020:110 [ref. 37357] as cf. nigripinna, , Parenti 2021:145 [ref. 38603] Larson 2022:82 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Valid as Eviota nigripinna Lachner & Karnella 1980. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Western Indian Ocean: Agalega Islands (Seychelles), Comoros, western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius), Maldives, Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory). Habitat: marine.