Species that contain: Gnatholepis and thompsoni [ 1 ] records

thompsoni, Gnatholepis Jordan [D. S.] 1904:541, Pl. 1 (fig. 2) [Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission v. 22 (1902); ref. 2400] Bush Key, Tortugas Archipelago, Florida, U.S.A. Holotype (unique): CAS-SU 8364. Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:113 [ref. 12291]. Published 19 Jan. 1904 in volume for 1902. •Synonym of Gnatholepis cauerensis (Bleeker 1853) -- (Rocha 2005:3921 [ref. 29293], Randall & Greenfield 2007:304 [ref. 29292], Randall 2007:406 [ref. 30952], Page et al. 2013:177 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Collette 2013:182 [ref. 32953]). •Valid as Gnatholepis thompsoni Jordan 1904 -- (Robins & Ray 1986:246 [ref. 23100], Edwards & Glass 1987:659 [ref. 9166], Miller 1990:931 [ref. 19376], Cervigón 1994:171 [ref. 24488], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:316 [ref. 25013], Schwartz 1999:284 [ref. 25307], Afonso et al. 1999:79 [ref. 25466], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:167 [ref. 27754], Brito & Miller 2001:255 [ref. 25096], Gasparini & Floeter 2001:1646 [ref. 25634], Rocha & Rosa 2001:992 [ref. 25909], Randall & Greenfield 2001:1 [ref. 25675], Thacker & Cole 2002:840 [ref. 26548], Collette et al. 2003:122 [ref. 26784], Murdy & Hoese 2003:1795 [ref. 27111], Moura et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:99 [ref. 27192], Smith et al. 2003:62 [ref. 27621] dated 1902, Ross & Rhode 2004:309 [ref. 27789] dated to 1902, Araújo & Freitas 2002:2 [ref. 27803], Nelson et al. 2004:171 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:703 [ref. 28815], Rocha et al. 2005:3921 [ref. 29293], Wirtz et al. 2007:39 [ref. 30263], Barneche et al. 2009:3 [ref. 41393], Van Tassell 2011:144 [ref. 31732], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:186 [ref. 31737], Larson & Buckle 2012:5, 50 [ref. 32272], Wirtz et al. 2013:132 [ref. 32972], Wirtz et al. 2014:10 [ref. 33516], Pinheiro et al. 2015:30 [ref. 34324], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2841 [ref. 34618], Robertson et al. 2016:148 [ref. 34961], Carneiro et al. 2019:179 [ref. 37250], Reiner 2019:264 [ref. 38139] as thomsoni, Robertson et al. 2020:155 [ref. 38098], Carballo et al. 2021:102 [ref. 39250], Carvalho-Filho in Marceniuk et al. 2021:242 [ref. 38945], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:75 [ref. 38844], Parenti 2021:318 [ref. 38603], Bennema & van Moorsel 2022:72 [ref. 39585], Carvalho-Filho 2023:237 [ref. 40480], Hoff et al. 2023:6 [ref. 40463], Martínez-Servín et al. 2023:113 [ref. 40726], Page et al. 2023:122 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Gnatholepis thompsoni Jordan 1904. Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Bermuda and Florida (U.S.A.) south to São Paulo (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea; southern-central Atlantic: Saint Helena Island, Ascension Island; eastern Atlantic: Madeira (Portugal), Canary Islands (Spain), Cape Verde Islands, São Tomé and Principe. IUCN (2015): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.