periophthalmus, Salarias Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1836:311, Pl. 328 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 11; ref. 1005] Tikopia Island, Solomon Islands, western Pacific. Lectotype: MNHN 0000-0857. Type catalog: Bauchot 1967:30 [ref. 20734] with a holotype that becomes the lectotype since it was not known how many specimens were originally included (see Springer & Williams 1994:66-67 [ref. 21878] for nomenclatural comments). Misspelled Salarias percophthalmus by Swainson 1839:274 [ref. 4304]. Misspelled Salarias periopthalmus by Waite 1899:545 [ref. 17824]. The name periophthalmus is a noun and should retain that spelling when in Blenniella. •Valid as Istiblennius periophthalmus (Valenciennes 1836) -- (Yu & Chung 1975:5 [ref. 41103], Dor 1984:231 [ref. 29757], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:300 [ref. 6441], Springer 1986:749 [ref. 5719], Shen et al. 1986:36 [ref. 13821], Allen & Swainston 1988:130 [ref. 25477], Winterbottom et al. 1989:61 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:385 [ref. 15987], Randall et al. 1994:238 [ref. 21645], Goren & Dor 1994:60 [ref. 25356]). •Valid as Blenniella periophthalmus (Valenciennes 1836) -- (Springer & Williams 1994:65 [ref. 21878], Randall 1995:315 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:208 [ref. 23977], Anderson et al. 1998:26 [ref. 23611], Myers 1999:223 [ref. 23965] as periophthalma, Carpenter et al. 1997:209 [ref. 23922], Fricke 1999:473 [ref. 24106], Allen 2000:92 [ref. 37268], Springer in Randall & Lim 2000:632 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1102 [ref. 25182], Hutchins 2001:41 [ref. 25847], Springer 2001:3543 [ref. 26290], Nakabo 2002:1102 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:53 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S116 [ref. 27377], Heemstra et al. 2004:3327 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:484 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Bray 2006:1544 [ref. 29000], Fricke et al. 2009:94 [ref. 30213], Patzner et al. 2009:450 [ref. 30396], Motomura et al. 2010:190 [ref. 31256], llen & Erdmann 2012:804 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:268 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2014:148 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2018:308 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:138 [ref. 36273], Arndt & Fricke 2019:12 [ref. 36883], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:127 [ref. 40104], Eagderi et al. 2019:41 [ref. 37020], Zajonz et al. 2019:94 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 15 [ref. 38321], Esmaeili et al. 2022:10 [19] [ref. 39526], Williams & Springer 2022:339 [ref. 39951], Fricke et al. 2024:66 [ref. 41255]). Current status: Valid as Blenniella periophthalmus (Valenciennes 1836). Blenniidae: Salariinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), Marquesas Islands and Gambier Islands (French Polynesia), north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to Western Australia, New Caledonia and Austral Islands (French Polynesia). Habitat: marine.