saliens, Blennius Lacepède [B. G. E.] (ex Commerson) 1800:458, 479 [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Lacepède) v. 2; ref. 2709] New Britain Island, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. No types known. Type catalog: Bauchot 1967:17 [ref. 20734]. Based on the "Alticus saltatorius" in a manuscript by Philibert Commerson. Also appeared in Sonnini 1803:83, 114 (vol. 7) [ref. 30473]. •Valid as Alticus saliens (Lacepède 1800) (author often given as Forster 1788) -- (Dor 1984:227 [ref. 29757], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:300 [ref. 6441], Shen et al. 1986:26 [ref. 13821], Goren & Dor 1994:58 [ref. 25356], Allen 2000:92 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:1107 [ref. 25182], Springer 2001:3543 [ref. 26290], Nakabo 2002:1107 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:53 [ref. 26830], Imamura in Imamura & Satapoomin 2009:245 [ref. 31162], Patzner et al. 2009:449 [ref. 30396], Allen & Erdmann 2012:800 [ref. 31980], Koeda et al. 2016:84 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2019:255 [ref. 36673], Murase in Motomura et al. 2021:62 [ref. 38121], Fujiwara et al. 2021:[11] [ref. 38207], Esmaeili et al. 2022:7 [16] [ref. 39526]). Current status: Valid as Alticus saliens (Lacepède 1800). Blenniidae: Salariinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Sri Lanka east to New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to Philippines, south to Vanuatu. Habitat: marine.