guttata, Eviota Lachner [E. A.] & Karnella [S. J.] 1978:9, Figs. 2a, 3b, 5 [Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 286; ref. 8814] Massawa, Eritrea, Red Sea. Holotype: USNM 218013. Paratypes: AMS I.20060-001 (11); ANSP 138900 (7) [? not 138700]; CAS 40598 (9); USNM 218014-24 (8, 5, 5, 30 or 31, 10, 16, 1, 15, 1, 27, 5). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:107 [ref. 13621]. •Valid as Eviota guttata Lachner & Karnella 1978 -- (Dor 1984:244 [ref. 29757], Randall & Goren 1993:9 [ref. 21131], Randall et al. 1994:245 [ref. 21645], Goren & Dor 1994:64 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:335 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:214 [ref. 23922], Randall et al. 1997:531 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:253 [ref. 23965], Allen 2000:119 [ref. 25868], Allen & Adrim 2003:58 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S119 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:644 [ref. 27495], Randall 2005:531 [ref. 28239], Herler & Hilgers 2005:110 [ref. 28528], Greenfield & Randall 2010:286 [ref. 30765], Hoese & Stewart 2012:66 [ref. 32113], Allen & Erdmann 2012:915 [ref. 31980], Tornabene et al. 2013:2 [ref. 32884], Greenfield & Jewett 2014:58 [ref. 33326], Fricke et al. 2014:163 [ref. 33932], Greenfield & Winterbottom 2016:46 [ref. 35011], Greenfield 2017:34 [ref. 35705], Golani & Fricke 2018:152 [ref. 36273], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:123 [ref. 40104], Eagderi et al. 2019:62 [ref. 37020], Zajonz et al. 2019:96 [ref. 36871], Parenti 2021:141 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:80 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:11 [ref. 40247], Erdmann et al. 2023:43 [ref. 40267]). Current status: Valid as Eviota guttata Lachner & Karnella 1978. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; western Indian Ocean: Socotra (Yemen), Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. Further records are probably based on other species [ref. 40267]: western Mascarenes (La Réunion) east to western Indonesia. Records from Pacific Ocean also based on a different species [ref 35011]. Habitat: marine.