ensifer, Gladiogobius Herre [A. W. C. T.] 1933:23 [Copeia 1933 (no. 1); ref. 2106] Near entrance to Majalibit Inlet, Waigio Island [Pulau Waigeo, Papua Barat, Indonesia, western Pacific]. Holotype: FMNH 17412. Paratypes: (3) CAS-SU 25498 (1), 25499 (2) or 26389 (2). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:147 [ref. 2676], Böhlke 1953:112 [ref. 12291], Ibarra & Stewart 1987:39 [ref. 12367]. •Valid as Gladiogobius ensifer Herre 1933 -- (Goren 1979:40 [ref. 1852], Dor 1984:245 [ref. 29757], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:242 [ref. 6441], Goren & Dor 1994:64 [ref. 25356], Anderson et al. 1998:27 [ref. 23611], Myers 1999:255 [ref. 23965], Nakabo 2000:1238 [ref. 25182], Larson & Murdy 2001:3597 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1238 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:58 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:644 [ref. 27495] in Gladigobius, Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:184 [ref. 27510], Shibukawa & Allen 2007:197 [ref. 30644], Allen & Erdmann 2012:974 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:165 [ref. 33932], Golani & Fricke 2018:154 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:284 [ref. 36673], Parenti 2021:159 [ref. 38603], Momose 2022:11 [ref. 39316]). Current status: Valid as Gladiogobius ensifer Herre 1933. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Seychelles east to Philippines, New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) and Solomon Islands, north to southern Japan. Habitat: brackish, marine.