Species that contain: Myxodes and elegans [ 2 ] records

elegans, Myxodes Cooper [J. G.] 1864:108, Fig. 23 (labeled Fig. 18) [Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 1) v. 3 (sigs. 7-8); ref. 4877] Bird Rock, San Diego County, California, U.S.A. Neotype: CAS-SU 16318. Syntypes: [Calif. State coll. 707 figured] Pt. Loma, San Diego (3), Catalina I. (3), Santa Barbara I. (2) apparently all lost. Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:96 [ref. 12291]. Neotype designated by Hubbs 1952:141 [ref. 2252]. See account of Gibbonsia evides. •Valid as Gibbonsia elegans (Cooper 1864) -- (Herrera 1896:67 [ref. 39336], Hubbs 1952:138 [ref. 2252], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:242 [ref. 9277], Stepien & Rosenblatt 1991:892 [ref. 19864], Hastings in Fischer et al. 1995:1014 [ref. 22829], Nelson et al. 2004:164 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:156 [ref. 37547], Patzner et al. 2009:466 [ref. 30396], Page et al. 2013:168 [ref. 32708], Kells et al. 2016:296 [ref. 35888], Burton & Lea 2019:89 [ref. 37205], Love et al. 2021:196 [ref. 39279]). Current status: Valid as Gibbonsia elegans (Cooper 1864). Clinidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: central California (U.S.A.) south to Pacific coast of southern Baja California Sur (Mexico), including Guadalupe Island (Mexico). Habitat: marine.

evides, Clinus Jordan [D. S.] & Gilbert [C. H.] 1883:763 [Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 16; ref. 2476] Southern California, U.S.A. Neotype: CAS-SU 16318. Replacement name for Myxodes elegans Cooper 1864, secondarily preoccupied by Clinus elegans Valenciennes 1836. Neotype designation for elegans also serves as the neotype for evides. Eschmeyer et al. 1998 pointed out that the valid name should be evides, but on the basis of Art. 59.3 of the 1999 code, the continued use of elegans is permitted. •Synonym of Gibbonsia elegans (Cooper 1864) -- Hubbs 1952:138 [ref. 2252], Stepien & Rosenblatt 1991:892 [ref. 19864] and Hastings in Fischer et al. 1995:1014 [ref. 22829]. Replacement Name. Current status: Synonym of Gibbonsia elegans (Cooper 1864). Clinidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific. Habitat: marine.