phoenixensis, Abudefduf Schultz [L. P.] 1943:190, Fig. 15 [Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 180; ref. 3957] Reef of Enderbury Island, Phoenix Islands [Kiribati Islands], western Pacific. Holotype: USNM 115782. Paratypes: MCZ 37268 [ex USNM 15784] (1); USNM 115783 (3), 115784 (orig. 13, now 12), 115785 (orig. 44, now 42), 115786 (9). •Valid as Plectroglyphidodon phoenixensis (Schultz 1943) -- (Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:197 [ref. 6441], Allen 1986:680 [ref. 5631], Winterbottom et al. 1989:48 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:275 [ref. 15987], Allen 1991:248 [ref. 19344], Randall et al. 1993:232 [ref. 21003], Randall et al. 1997:275 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:184 [ref. 23965], Randall 1999:20 [ref. 25829], Allen 2000:90 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:933 [ref. 25182], Randall & Earle 2000:16 [ref. 25806], Allen 2001:3344 [ref. 26132], Nakabo 2002:933 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:46 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:633 [ref. 27495], Lobel & Lobel 2004:73 [ref. 27576], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:334 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:376 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:430 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:1463 [ref. 29090], Randall 2007:311 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:81 [ref. 30213], Allen & Erdmann 2012:610 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:265 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2014:121 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:7 [ref. 33988], Arndt & Fricke 2019:27 [ref. 36883], Parenti 2021:71 [ref. 38418], Allen 2022:152 [ref. 39911], Allen & Erdmann 2024:620 [ref. 40796], Fricke et al. 2024:84 [ref. 41255]). Current status: Valid as Plectroglyphidodon phoenixensis (Schultz 1943). Pomacentridae: Microspathodontinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Mozambique Channel and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Pitcairn Group, north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan). Habitat: marine.