striatus, Salarias Valenciennes [A.] (ex Quoy & Gaimard) in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1836:309 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 11; ref. 1005] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Lectotype: MNHN A-1796. Paralectotypes: MNHN B-2525 (2). Type catalog: Bauchot 1967:32 [ref. 20734]. Lectotype selected by Springer 1967:83 [ref. 18947]. •Valid as Entomacrodus striatus (Valenciennes 1836) -- (Springer 1967:73 [ref. 18947], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:298 [ref. 6441], Fukao 1985:96 [ref. 21281], Springer 1986:746 [ref. 5719], Shen et al. 1986:33 [ref. 13821], Allen & Swainston 1988:130 [ref. 25477], Winterbottom et al. 1989:60 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:382 [ref. 15987], Francis 1993:166 [ref. 25479], Allen 1997:208 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:382 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:226 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:479 [ref. 24106], Randall 1999:25 [ref. 25829], Springer in Randall & Lim 2000:633 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1099 [ref. 25182] with authors as Quoy & Gaimard, Sadovy & Cornish 2000:227 [ref. 25480], Allen 2000:117 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:41 [ref. 25847], Springer 2001:3544 [ref. 26290] with authors as Quoy & Gaimard, Nakabo 2002:1099 [ref. 26193] with authors as Quoy & Gaimard, Allen & Adrim 2003:54 [ref. 26830] with authors as Quoy & Gaimard, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S117 [ref. 27377], with authors as Quoy & Gaimard, Lobel & Lobel 2004:75 [ref. 27576] with authors as Quoy & Gaimard, Randall et al. 2004:25 [ref. 27624] with authors as Quoy & Gaimard, Adrim et al. 2004:125 [ref. 27715] with authors as Quoy & Gaimard, Heemstra et al. 2004:3327 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:383 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:493 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Bray 2006:1550 [ref. 29000], Fricke et al. 2009:96 [ref. 30213], Patzner et al. 2009:454 [ref. 30396], Motomura et al. 2010:192 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:823 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:150 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2018:311 [ref. 35805], Arndt & Fricke 2019:12 [ref. 36883], Hoschke et al. 2019:159 [ref. 36626], Murase in Motomura et al. 2021:64 [ref. 38121], Sharafiniya et al. 2021:69 [ref. 38544], Sharifiniya et al. 2021:39 [ref. 38920], Esmaeili et al. 2022:14 [23] [ref. 39526], Furuhashi & Motomura 2022:16 [ref. 39607], Williams & Springer 2022:355 [ref. 39951], Sato et al. 2023:10 [ref. 40949]). Current status: Valid as Entomacrodus striatus (Valenciennes 1836). Blenniidae: Salariinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa (Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Wake Atoll and Pitcairn Group, north to southern Japan, south to Rottnest Island (Western Australia), Coral Sea (Queensland, Australia), Lord Howe Island (Australia) and Rapa (French Polynesia). Habitat: marine.