midas, Ecsenius (Anthiiblennius) Starck [W. A., II] 1969:2, Figs. 1, 3, 4 [Notulae Naturae (Philadelphia) No. 419; ref. 4192] D'Arros Island, Amirante Islands, western Indian Ocean, depth 85 feet. Holotype: ANSP 111148. Paratypes: ANSP 111149 (1), 111854 (1, c&s); USNM 202422 (1). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:29 [ref. 13621], Springer et al. 1991:15 [ref. 18888]. •Valid as Ecsenius midas Starck 1969 -- (Springer 1971:13 [ref. 7707], Springer 1972:1 [ref. 7647], Dor 1984:228 [ref. 29757], Springer 1986:745 [ref. 5719], Springer 1988:37 [ref. 6804], Winterbottom et al. 1989:60 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:381 [ref. 15987], Goren & Dor 1994:59 [ref. 25356], Allen 1997:210 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:381 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:224 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:478 [ref. 24106], Allen 2000:92 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:1109 [ref. 25182], Randall & Earle 2000:18 [ref. 25806], Springer 2001:3544 [ref. 26290], Springer & Allen 2001:152 [ref. 25668], Nakabo 2002:1109 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:54 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:640 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:25 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:125 [ref. 27715], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:383 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:489 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Bray 2006:1548 [ref. 29000], Fricke et al. 2009:95 [ref. 30213], Imamura in Imamura & Satapoomin 2009:248 [ref. 31162], Patzner et al. 2009:452 [ref. 30396], Motomura et al. 2010:191 [ref. 31256], Caratini & Soriano 2011:17 [ref. 39915], Allen & Erdmann 2012:815 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:149 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:7 [ref. 33988], Attaran-Farimani et al. 2016:176 [ref. 34175], Fricke et al. 2018:309 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:139 [ref. 36273], Allen et al. 2019:76 [ref. 36633], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:127 [ref. 40104], Esmaeili et al. 2022:13 [22] [ref. 39526], Williams & Springer 2022:351 [ref. 39951]). Current status: Valid as Ecsenius midas Starck 1969. Blenniidae: Salariinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia, New Caledonia and Tonga. Habitat: marine.
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