bilobatus, Cottogobius Koumans [F. P.] 1941:253 [Memoirs of the Indian Museum v. 13 (pt 3); ref. 2677] Muthivaratu Paar, India. Lectotype: USNM 203588. Paralectotypes: RMNH 16937 (1); ZSI F5450/2 (1, poor condition, not this species); USNM 203587 (1). Additional material (non-types): ZSI F5451/2 (1), 5452/2 (1). Type catalog:Menon & Rama Rao 1971:344 [ref. 31198] with a holotype and different paratype numbers, Menon & Rama-Rao 1975:42 [ref. 22148] with a holotype and paratypes, Talwar 1977:638 [ref. 26599]. Lectotype selected by Larson & Hoese 1980:34 [ref. 2725]. •Valid as Pleurosicya bilobata (Koumans 1941) -- (Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:283 [ref. 6441] as bilobatus, Larson 1990:13 [ref. 16607], Kottelat et al. 1993:149 [ref. 23448], Kuiter 1993:356 [ref. 23929], Myers 1999:258 [ref. 23965], Ikeda et al. 1999:23 [ref. 24155], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:639 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1217 [ref. 25182], Larson & Murdy 2001:3599 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1217 [ref. 26193], Myers & Donaldson 2003:645 [ref. 27495], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:189 [ref. 27510], Greenfield & Randall 2004:536 [ref. 28175], Randall 2005:546 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Larson 2006:1675 [ref. 29097], Allen & Erdmann 2012:904 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2015:217 [ref. 33863], Parenti 2021:211 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:122 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:21 [ref. 40247], Goren et al. 2023:120 [ref. 40086]). Current status: Valid as Pleurosicya bilobata (Koumans 1941). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Saint Brandon's Shoals (Cargados Carajos), Comoros, Mascarenes and India east to Guam (Mariana Islands) and Papua New Guinea, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Australia. Habitat: brackish, marine.
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