tongarevae, Glossogobius Fowler [H. W.] 1927:27, Fig. 4 [Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum No. 38; ref. 15785] Tongareva [Penrhyn Island, northern Cook Islands, South Pacific]. Holotype: BPBM 3426. Paratypes: ANSP 85961 (4), BPBM 10854 (2), USNM 109391 (1). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:157 [ref. 2676], Böhlke 1984:110 [ref. 13621]. •Valid as Cabillus tongarevae (Fowler 1927) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:274 [ref. 6441], Randall & Goren 1993:6 [ref. 21131], Myers 1999:247 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:504 [ref. 24106], Nakabo 2000:1218 [ref. 25182], Hutchins 2001:42 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3595 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1218 [ref. 26193], Myers & Donaldson 2003:643 [ref. 27495], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:178 [ref. 27510], Lobel & Lobel 2004:75 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:26 [ref. 27624], Greenfield & Randall 2004:516 [ref. 28175], Randall 2005:522 [ref. 28239], Randall et al. 2007:41 [ref. 29021], Hoese & Larson 2006:1631 [ref. 29097], Randall 2007:397 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:100 [ref. 30213], Hoese & Larson 2010:376 [ref. 31045], Motomura et al. 2010:206 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:963 [ref. 31980], Kovačić & Bogorodsky 2013:181 [ref. 32908], Fricke et al. 2014:160 [ref. 33932], Akaike et al. 2021:26 [ref. 38809], Parenti 2021:108 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:57 [ref. 39971], Mochizuki et al. 2022:25 [ref. 39612], Ba 2023:5 [ref. 40742]). Current status: Valid as Cabillus tongarevae (Fowler 1927). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Aldabra (Seychelles), western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius), Maldives and Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), Line Islands and Phoenix islands (Kiribati), north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to Western Australia, Chesterfield Islands (New Caledonia), and Tonga. Habitat: marine.