micheli, Pleurosycia Fourmanoir [P.] 1971:499, Fig. 8 [Cahiers O. R. S. T. O. M. (Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer) Série Océanographie v. 9 (no. 4); ref. 7673] Caban Island, off southwestern Luzon, Batangas, Philippines, Verde Island Passage, South China Sea, western Pacific, ca. 13°41'N 120°50'E. Neotype: AMS I.21918-071. The original genus is correctly Pleurosicya. Original unique holotype not at MNHN: Bauchot et al. 1991:61 [ref. 19958]. Original locality was Lifou, Loyalty Is.; neotype designated by Larson 1990:32 [ref. 16607]. •Valid as Pleurosicya micheli Fourmanoir 1971 -- (Randall & Goren 1993:19 [ref. 21131], Randall 1995:341 [ref. 22896], Randall et al. 1997:406 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:258 [ref. 23965], Ikeda et al. 1999:23 [ref. 24155], Fricke 1999:519 [ref. 24106], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:639 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1218 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:413 [ref. 25191], Larson & Murdy 2001:3599 [ref. 26293], Randall et al. 2002:161 [ref. 26192], Nakabo 2002:1218 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:60 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S119 [ref. 27377], Randall et al. 2004:28 [ref. 27624], Greenfield & Randall 2004:537 [ref. 28175], Randall 2005:546 [ref. 28239], Herler & Hilgers 2005:125 [ref. 28528], Mundy 2005:479 [ref. 28379], Hoese & Larson 2006:1676 [ref. 29097], Randall 2007:401 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:103 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:217 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:906 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:270 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2014:170 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2015:217 [ref. 33863], Golani & Fricke 2018:159 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:288 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:97 [ref. 36871], Fujiwara et al. 2020:38 [ref. 38631], Larson 2022:124 [ref. 39971], Goren et al. 2023:123 [ref. 40086]). Current status: Valid as Pleurosicya micheli Fourmanoir 1971. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Oman, Socotra (Yemen), Amirantes (Seychelles), Mozambique Channel and western Mascarenes (La Réunion) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Tonga, north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.
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