taeniatus, Aspidontus Quoy [J. R. C.] & Gaimard [J. P.] 1834:719, Pl. 19 (fig. 4) [Voyage de découvertes de "l'Astrolabe" Zoologie, v. 3 (Pt 2); ref. 3573] Agana, Guam, Mariana Islands, western Pacific; northern New Guinea. No types at MNHN. Type catalog: Bauchot 1967:5 [ref. 20734]. •Valid as Aspidontus taeniatus Quoy & Gaimard 1834 -- (Smith-Vaniz 1976:57 [ref. 4144], Dor 1984:222 [ref. 29757], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:297 [ref. 6441], Shen et al. 1986:42 [ref. 13821], Smith-Vaniz 1987:3 [ref. 6404], Allen & Swainston 1988:128 [ref. 25477], Randall et al. 1990:367 [ref. 15987], Kuiter 1993:340 [ref. 23929], Goren & Dor 1994:59 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:314 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:206 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:332 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:367 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:218 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:472 [ref. 24106], Allen 2000:92 [ref. 37268], Springer in Randall & Lim 2000:632 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:394 [ref. 25191], Randall & Earle 2000:18 [ref. 25806], Springer 2001:3543 [ref. 26290], Allen & Adrim 2003:53 [ref. 26830], Randall et al. 2004:24 [ref. 27624]). •Valid as Aspidontus taeniatus Quoy & Gaimard 1834, subspecies taeniatus Quoy & Gaimard 1834 -- (Fukao 1985:89 [ref. 21281], Nakabo 2000:1117 [ref. 25182], Shinohara et al. 2000:181 [ref. 25987], Hutchins 2001:41 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:1117 [ref. 26193], Myers & Donaldson 2003:639 [ref. 27495], Randall 2005:482 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Bray 2006:1542 [ref. 29000], Patzner et al. 2009:450 [ref. 30396], Hastings & Springer 2009:6 [ref. 31156], Imamura in Imamura & Satapoomin 2009:246 [ref. 31162], Motomura et al. 2010:190 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:788 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:179 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:147 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:7 [ref. 33988], Fowler et al. 2017:[4] 2252 [ref. 36358], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:129 [ref. 40104], Fricke et al. 2019:255 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:94 [ref. 36871], Fujiwara et al. 2020:37 [ref. 38631], Smith-Vaniz et al. 2020:122 [ref. 37757], Esmaeili et al. 2022:9 [18] [ref. 39526], Fricke et al. 2024:66 [ref. 41255]). Current status: Valid as Aspidontus taeniatus Quoy & Gaimard 1834. Blenniidae: Blenniinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Comoros, Madagascar, Saint Brandon's Shoals (Cargados Carajos) and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Marshall Islands, Marquesas Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia), north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan) and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to southern New South Wales (Australia). Habitat: marine.