Species that contain: Valenciennea and immaculatus [ 1 ] records immaculatus, Eleotriodes Ni [Y.] 1981:362 (English p. 364), Fig. 1 [Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica v. 12 (no. 4); ref. 8566] Yantian, Baoan County, Guangdong Province, China. Holotype: ECSFRI 57-1091. Paratypes: ECSFRI 57-1092 (1), 57-1095 (1), 57-1096 (1), 57-1099 (1), 1327 (1), uncat. (1). •Valid as Valenciennea immaculata (Ni 1981) -- (Hoese & Larson 1994:24 [ref. 12483], Allen 1997:220 [ref. 23977], Johnson 1999:749 [ref. 25471], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:640 [ref. 25122], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:251 [ref. 25480], Allen 2000:121 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:44 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3600 [ref. 26293], Allen & Adrim 2003:60 [ref. 26830], Randall et al. 2004:28 [ref. 27624], Hoese & Larson 2006:1693 [ref. 29097], Allen & Erdmann 2012:986 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:208 [ref. 32988], Suzuki et al. 2016:2 [ref. 34434], Prokofiev 2016:650 [ref. 35020], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:270 [ref. 36460], Fricke et al. 2019:291 [ref. 36673], Parenti 2021:249 [ref. 38603], Allen et al. 2024:1359 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Valenciennea immaculata (Ni 1981). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Western Pacific: Indonesia east to Philippines and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to northern Vietnam and Taiwan, south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.
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