candolii, Lepadogaster Risso [A.] 1810:76 [Ichthyologie de Nice; ref. 3755] St. Hospice, France, northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Syntypes: MZUF 5573-74 (2). Type catalog: Vanni 1991:223 [ref. 20099]. Spelled candolii in text and index; name should not be changed. Spelled decandollii by Risso 1827:275 [ref. 3757]. •Valid as Mirbelia candolei [sic] (Risso 1810) "for the time being" -- (Almada et al. 2008:1154 [ref. 29550] as candollei). •Valid as Mirbelia candolii (Risso 1810) -- (Carballo et al. 2021:90 [ref. 39250]). •Valid as Lepadogaster candolii Risso 1810 -- (Briggs 1955:38 [ref. 637], Briggs 1973:655 [ref. 7222], Briggs in Whitehead et al. 1986:1356 [ref. 13677], Briggs 1990:476 [ref. 15498], Hofrichter 1995:124 [ref. 30502] as candollei, Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:56 [ref. 26753] as candollei, Golani 2005:27 [ref. 37112] as candollei, Fricke et al. 2007:100 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:135 [ref. 30517], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:174 [ref. 31251] as candolii, Lipej & Dulčić 2010:33 [ref. 36649] as candollei, Parin et al. 2015:472 [ref. 33547], Fricke et al. in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2809 [ref. 34618], Artüz & Fricke 2019:554 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:205 [ref. 37250], Trkov et al. 2019:67 [ref. 36880], Bariche & Fricke 2020:48 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:31 [ref. 37519], Abliazov et al. 2021:11 [ref. 38576], Bañón & Maño 2021:63 [ref. 38883], Golani 2021:30 [ref. 38303] as candollei, Kovačić et al. 2021:55 [ref. 39014]). Current status: Valid as Lepadogaster candolii Risso 1810. Gobiesocidae: Lepadogastrinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: British Isles south to Portugal, including Madeira and Canary Islands. Habitat: brackish, marine.