kitaharae, Lambdopsetta Smith [H. M.] & Pope [T. E. B.] 1906:496, Fig. 12 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 31 (no. 1489); ref. 4058] Kagoshima, Kagoshima Bay, Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan. Holotype (unique): USNM 55612. The spelling kitaharae [not Kitaharai] is acceptable; early workers almost certainly Latinized the name first, and then added an 'e' (Art. 31.1.1) [WNE, 12 Mar. 2012] -- we suggest using kitaharae when the species is treated as valid. •Valid as Laeops kitaharae (Smith & Pope 1906) -- (Amaoka 1969:208 [ref. 105], Amaoka in Masuda et al. 1984:350 [ref. 6441], Dor 1984:269 [ref. 29757], Matsuura in Okamura et al. 1985:617, 738 [ref. 8056], Fukui & Ozawa 1990:127 [ref. 16666], Lindberg & Fedorov 1993:60 [ref. 21500], Kim & Youn 1994:109 [ref. 22286], Goren & Dor 1994:71 [ref. 25356] as kitharae, Evseenko 1996:732 [ref. 24666], Evseenko 1998:59 [ref. 23643], Amaoka in Randall & Lim 2000:645 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1370 [ref. 25182], Shinohara et al. 2001:334 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:1370 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:429, 680 [ref. 26218], Shinohara et al. 2005:442 [ref. 28370], Hoese & Bray 2006:1821 [ref. 29000], Ho et al. 2009:11 [ref. 31461], Ohashi & Motomura 2011:93 [ref. 32413], Shinohara et al. 2014:274 [ref. 33330], Voronina et al. 2016:391 [ref. 35064], Kimura & Imamura in Kimura et al. 2018:294 [ref. 36460], Amaoka & Ho 2019:194 [ref. 37188], Kim et al. 2020:193 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:591 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:119 [ref. 37637], Tashiro 2022:84 [ref. 39012]). •Synonym of Laeops parviceps Günther 1880 -- (Li & Wang 1995:176 [ref. 16193], Voronina et al. 2020:818 [ref. 38046]). Current status: Synonym of Laeops parviceps Günther 1880. Bothidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Taiwan, north to Korea and central Japan [if valid]. Habitat: marine.