buruensis, Ambassis Bleeker [P.] 1856:396 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 11 (no. 2); ref. 353] Kajeli, Buru Island, Molucca Islands, Indonesia. Syntypes: (3) BMNH 1880.4.21.94-95. Original as buruënsis; later spelled buroënsis by Bleeker; burunensis is a misspelling. •Valid as Ambassis buruensis Bleeker 1856 -- (Hayashi in Masuda et al. 1984:123 [ref. 6441], Allen & Burgess 1990:160 [ref. 15712], Allen & Coates 1990:79 [ref. 25561], Allen 1991:115 [ref. 21090], Kottelat et al. 1993:104 [ref. 23448], Rainboth 1996:181 [ref. 22772], Myers 1999:104 [ref. 23965], Allen 1999:2435 [ref. 24812], Nakabo 2000:680 [ref. 25086], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:608 [ref. 25122], Freyhof et al. 2000:97 [ref. 25184] as cf. buruensis, Iwatsuki et al. 2000:98 [ref. 26368] as burunensis, Kimura & Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:179 [ref. 27511], Sakai et al. 2001:93 [ref. 25693], Nakabo 2002:680 [ref. 26001], Myers & Donaldson 2003:620 [ref. 27495] dated 1857, Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:44 [ref. 27510], Larson & Pidgeon 2004:196 [ref. 28107], Randall 2005:135 [ref. 28239], Fricke et al. 2011:382 [ref. 31242], Kottelat 2013:319 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:57 [ref. 33932], Koeda et al. 2016:24 [ref. 35333], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:92 [ref. 36460], Tomimori et al. 2020:56 [ref. 38507], Jamandre 2023:172 [ref. 40455]). Current status: Valid as Ambassis buruensis Bleeker 1856. Ambassidae. Distribution: Western Pacific: Thailand and Indonesia east to Philippines and New Guinea, north to Osumi Islands (southern Japan). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.