pavo, Blennius Risso [A.] 1810:133 [Ichthyologie de Nice; ref. 3755] Nice, France, northwestern Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Type catalog: Bauchot 1967:16 [ref. 20734]. •Valid as Blennius pavo Risso 1810 -- (Bath 1973:522 [ref. 7212], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:172 [ref. 31251]). •Valid as Lipophrys pavo (Risso 1810) -- (Zander in Whitehead et al. 1986:1104 [ref. 13677], Golani 2005:53 [ref. 37112]). •Valid as Salaria pavo (Risso 1810) -- (Bath 1996:92 [ref. 22687], Gharred et al. 1998:104 [ref. 23486], Al-Hassan 1999:195 [ref. 25945], Perdices et al. 2000:727 [ref. 24587], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:126 [ref. 26753], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:181 [ref. 28369], Almada et al. 2005:289 [ref. 28398], Fricke et al. 2007:99 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:132 [ref. 30517], Patzner et al. 2009:460 [ref. 30396], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:61 [ref. 36649], Doadrio et al. 2012:156 [ref. 31858], Parin et al. 2014:470 [ref. 33547], Çiçek et al. 2015:152 [ref. 35151], Artüz & Fricke 2019:559 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:212 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:99 [ref. 36864], İnnal 2019:98 [ref. 36949], Bariche & Fricke 2020:57 [ref. 37515], Çiçek et al. 2020:257 [ref. 37644], Kovačić et al. 2020:33 [ref. 37519], Abliazov et al. 2021:10 [ref. 38576], Bañón & Maño 2021:90 [ref. 38887], Carballo et al. 2021:70 [ref. 39250], Golani 2021:72 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:58 [ref. 39014], Duquenne-Delobel et al. 2022:38 [ref. 39186], Esmaeili et al. 2022:25 [34] [ref. 39526], Williams & Springer 2022:380 [ref. 39951], Çiçek et al. 2023:448 [ref. 40625], Khutornoi et al. 2023:159 [ref. 40553], Çiçek et al. 2024:370 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Salaria pavo (Risso 1810). Blenniidae: Salariinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: Bay of Biscay south to Morocco, including Madeira and Canary Islands. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.