stigmaticus, Cirripectus Strasburg [D. W.] & Schultz [L. P.] 1953:132, Fig. 2 [Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences v. 43 (no. 4); ref. 12719] Lagoon reef, Rongerik Atoll, Latoback Island, Marshall Islands, western Pacific. Holotype: USNM 164962. Paratypes: USNM 142129 (1), 154673-74 (2, 3), 164961 (16), 164963-65 (2, 2, 1), Type catalog: Springer et al. 1991:23 [ref. 18888]. Original genus should have been Cirripectes. •Valid as Cirripectes stigmaticus Strasburg & Schultz 1953 -- (Williams 1988:65 [ref. 7000], Randall et al. 1990:378 [ref. 15987], Bath & Patzner 1991:40 [ref. 19212], Allen 1997:210 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:326 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:378 [ref. 25919], Suzuki et al. 1999:2 [ref. 24391], Myers 1999:224 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:476 [ref. 24106], Allen 2000:92 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:1095 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:397 [ref. 25191], Hutchins 2001:41 [ref. 25847], Springer 2001:3543 [ref. 26290], Nakabo 2002:1095 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:54 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:640 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:25 [ref. 27624], Heemstra et al. 2004:3327 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:382 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:487 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Bray 2006:1546 [ref. 29000], Fricke et al. 2009:95 [ref. 30213], Patzner et al. 2009:451 [ref. 30396], Allen & Erdmann 2012:808 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:149 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2018:309 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:138 [ref. 36273], Arndt & Fricke 2019:12 [ref. 36883], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:128 [ref. 40104], Fricke et al. 2019:256 [ref. 36673], Hoban & Williams 2020:10 [ref. 37406], Williams & Springer 2022:345 [ref. 39951], Couëdel et al. 2023:3 [ref. 40137], Fricke et al. 2024:67 [ref. 41255]). Current status: Valid as Cirripectes stigmaticus Strasburg & Schultz 1953. Blenniidae: Salariinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Marshall Islands, Samoa and Tonga, north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to Western Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.
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