hectori, Seychellea Smith [J. L. B.] 1957:726, Fig. 3 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 12) v. 9 (no. 106) (art. 93); ref. 4109] Mahé, Seychelles, western Indian Ocean. Holotype: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 214. Paratypes: AMS I.19415-001 [ex SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 730] (3); SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 730 (orig. 36), 731 (20); USNM 210561 [ex SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 730] (3). •Valid as Seychellea hectori Smith 1957 -- (Goren 1979:51 [ref. 1852], Dor 1984:250 [ref. 29757]). •Valid as Amblygobius hectori (Smith 1957) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:256 [ref. 6441], Randall & Goren 1993:3 [ref. 21131], Goren & Dor 1994:62 [ref. 25356], Allen 1997:214 [ref. 23977], Myers 1999:242 [ref. 23965], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:635 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1236 [ref. 25182], Allen 2000:118 [ref. 25868], Larson & Murdy 2001:3594 [ref. 26293] dated 1956, Nakabo 2002:1236 [ref. 26193], Adrim et al. 2004:126 [ref. 27715], Shibukawa 2009:261 [ref. 30449], Koeda et al. 2016:88 [ref. 35333]). •Valid as Koumansetta hectori (Smith 1957) -- (Allen & Adrim 2003:59 [ref. 26830], Randall 2005:541 [ref. 28239], Shao et al. 2008:262 [ref. 29952], Allen & Erdmann 2012:981 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:270 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2018:334 [ref. 35805], Kovačić et al. 2018:466 [ref. 36068], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[16] 254 [ref. 36492], Golani & Fricke 2018:157 [ref. 36273]). Current status: Valid as Koumansetta hectori (Smith 1957). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa and Madagascar east to Marshall Islands and Fiji, north to Ryukyu and Yaeyama islands, and Taiwan, and south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.