zebra, Pogonoculius Fowler [H. W.] 1938:134 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 85 (no. 3032); ref. 1426] Dasol Bay, Luzon Island [Pangasinan Province, Philippines, South China Sea, western Pacific]. Holotype (unique): USNM 99048. •Valid as Pogonoculius zebra Fowler 1938 -- (Shen & Lin 1984:17 [ref. 13822]). •Valid as Ptereleotris zebra (Fowler 1938) -- (Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:246 [ref. 6441], Randall & Hoese 1985:31 [ref. 5197], Randall et al. 1990:418 [ref. 15987], Randall & Goren 1993:28 [ref. 21131], Francis 1993:167 [ref. 25479], Francis & Randall 1993:124 [ref. 20996], Kuiter 1993:365 [ref. 23929], Goren & Dor 1994:67 [ref. 25356], Allen 1997:220 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:418 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:264 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:527 [ref. 24106], Allen 2000:93 [ref. 37268], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:641 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1266 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:421 [ref. 25191], Randall & Earle 2000:20 [ref. 25806], Hutchins 2001:44 [ref. 25847], Larson 2001:3608 [ref. 26296], Nakabo 2002:1266 [ref. 26193], Randall & Shen 2002:492 [ref. 26738], Allen & Adrim 2003:61 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:646 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:29 [ref. 27624], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:398 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:567 [ref. 28239], Hoese 2006:1710 [ref. 28998], Fricke et al. 2009:105 [ref. 30213], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1002 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:270 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2014:178 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:8 [ref. 33988], Koeda et al. 2016:97 [ref. 35333], Golani & Fricke 2018:165 [ref. 36273], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:125 [ref. 40104], Fricke et al. 2019:295 [ref. 36673], Parenti 2021:407 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:197 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:30 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Ptereleotris zebra (Fowler 1938). Gobiidae: Ptereleotrinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Mozambique Channel, Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles) and western Mascarenes (La RĂ©union, Mauritius) east to Line Islands (Kiribati) and Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to New South Wales (Australia), New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island (Australia). Habitat: marine.
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