bicolor, Salarias Day [F.] (ex Tickell) 1888:798 [The fishes of India Suppl.; ref. 1082] Saddle Island, off Kyoukphyoo, Arracan, Myanmar. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:161 [ref. 23762]. We assume Day revised the description in his style and may have taken information from the figure rather than quoting directly from Tickell, therefore authorship is regarded as Day. •Valid as Ecsenius bicolor (Day 1888) -- (Springer 1971:25 [ref. 7707], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:300 [ref. 6441], Springer 1988:44 [ref. 6804], Allen & Swainston 1988:130 [ref. 25477], Randall et al. 1990:380 [ref. 15987], Bath & Patzner 1991:41 [ref. 19212], Allen 1997:208 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:330 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:380 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:224 [ref. 23965], Springer & Randall 1999:39 [ref. 24274], Allen 2000:92 [ref. 37268], Springer in Randall & Lim 2000:633 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1108 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:398 [ref. 25191], Allen 2000:116 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:41 [ref. 25847], Springer 2001:3544 [ref. 26290], Springer & Allen 2001:153 [ref. 25668], Nakabo 2002:1108 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:54 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:640 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:25 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:125 [ref. 27715], Randall 2005:488 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:462 [ref. 28379], Hoese & Bray 2006:1547 [ref. 29000], Imamura in Imamura & Satapoomin 2009:247 [ref. 31162], Patzner et al. 2009:452 [ref. 30396], Motomura et al. 2010:191 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:811 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:179 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:149 [ref. 33932], Duffy & Ahyong 2015:117 [ref. 36167], Francis & Duffy 2015:483 [ref. 36161], Attaran-Farimani et al. 2016:176 [ref. 34175], Allen et al. 2019:77 [ref. 36633], Fricke et al. 2019:256 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:93 [ref. 36871] as cf. bicolor, Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 15 [ref. 38321], Murase in Motomura et al. 2021:63 [ref. 38121], Wada et al. 2021:46 [ref. 38521], Williams & Springer 2022:348 [ref. 39951], Anto et al. 2024:3 [ref. 40874]). Current status: Valid as Ecsenius bicolor (Day 1888). Blenniidae: Salariinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Lakshadweep (India), Maldives and Sri Lanka east to Phoenix Islands (Kiribati) and Samoa, north to Amami Islands (southern Japan), south to northern Australia, northern New Zealand and Kermadec Islands. Habitat: marine.