nigrescens, Laeops Lloyd [R. E.] 1907:9 [Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) v. 1 (pt 1); ref. 15153] Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, 13°36'N, 47°32'E, Investigator station 360, depth 130 fathoms. Syntypes: (many) BMNH 1927.1.6.56-57 [ex ZSI] (2); ZSI F1291/1-1293/1 (3), 1296/1 (1). Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:157 [ref. 20743], Menon & Rama-Rao 1975:44 [ref. 22148]. Figured in Lloyd 1908: Pl. 43 (fig. 2) [ref. 20538]. •Valid as Laeops nigrescens Lloyd 1907 -- (Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S122 [ref. 27377], Psomadakis et al. 2015:325 [ref. 34104] as cf. nigrescens, Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 12 [ref. 38321], Voronina et al. 2020:814 [ref. 38046], Hensley & Amaoka 2022:343 [ref. 40220], Ummath et al. 2024:[7] [ref. 41632]). Current status: Valid as Laeops nigrescens Lloyd 1907. Bothidae. Distribution: Northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden endemic. Habitat: marine.