pardalota, Eviota Lachner [E. A.] & Karnella [S. J.] 1978:11, Figs. 1a, 6, 7 [Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 286; ref. 8814] 100 kilometer north of Sharm el Sheikh, Sinai, Egypt, Gulf of Suez, Red Sea. Holotype: USNM 218006. Paratypes: AMS I.20061-001 (1); ANSP 138901 (2); CAS 40597 (7); USNM 191717 (1), 218007-12 (3, 2, 1, 1, 7, 2). Additional non-type material: HUJ 9823 [ex E62/514] (3). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:108 [ref. 13621], Golani 2006:34 [ref. 28840]. •Valid as Eviota pardalota Lachner & Karnella 1978 -- (Dor 1984:244 [ref. 29757], 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], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S119 [ref. 27377], Greenfield & Randall 2010:271 [ref. 30765], Greenfield & Suzuki 2011:68 [ref. 31244], Hoese & Stewart 2012:66 [ref. 32113], Greenfield & Jewett 2014:58 [ref. 33326], Greenfield & Winterbottom 2016:56 [ref. 34754], Greenfield & Winterbottom 2016:51 [ref. 35011], Greenfield 2017:35 [ref. 35705], Golani & Fricke 2018:152 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:62 [ref. 37020], Greenfield & Gordon 2019:14 [ref. 36725], Zajonz et al. 2019:96 [ref. 36871] as cf. pardalota, Parenti 2021:146 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:83 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:12 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Eviota pardalota Lachner & Karnella 1978. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf. Habitat: marine.