nebulosa, Saurida Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1850:504, Pl. 648 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 22; ref. 1014] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Lectotype: MNHN B-1029 (also paratype of *S. gracilis*). Paralectotypes: MNHN B-1027 (2), B-1028 (now 2), B.1029 (? now 2), B-2918 [ex MNHN B-1028] (2), B-2919 [ex MNHN B-1029] (3). Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1950:8 [ref. 19576]. Lectotype selected by Waples 1982:229 [ref. 5491]. •Synonym of Saurida gracilis (Quoy & Gaimard 1824) -- (Dor 1984:46 [ref. 29757], Fricke 1999:91 [ref. 24106] paralectotypes only, Chen 2002:71 [ref. 26587]). •Valid as Saurida nebulosa Valenciennes 1850 -- (Waples 1982:227 [ref. 8397], Paxton et al. 1989:243 [ref. 12442], Kuiter 1993:43 [ref. 23929], Krishnan & Mishra 1994:277 [ref. 24014], Randall 1995:78 [ref. 22896], Suzuki et al. 1995:2 [ref. 24356], Kuiter 1997:38 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:496 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:64 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:92 [ref. 24106], Russell 1999:1939 [ref. 24747], Nakabo 2000:352 [ref. 25086], Kimura & Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:146 [ref. 27511] dated 1849, Nakabo 2002:352 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:25 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S98 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:613 [ref. 27495], Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:19 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:8 [ref. 27624] with date 1849, Randall 2005:62 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:199 [ref. 28379], Hoese et al. 2006:474 [ref. 29051], Randall 2007:109 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:24 [ref. 30213], Kimura 2009:36 [ref. 30426], Fricke et al. 2011:358 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:123 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:27 [ref. 33932], Russell 2015:445 [ref. 33739], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:4 [ref. 33988], Motomura et al. 2017:49 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:68 [ref. 35805], Balushkin & Prirodina 2020:27 [ref. 37828], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:77 [ref. 41223], Russell 2022:214 [ref. 39701], Allen & Erdmann 2024:135 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Saurida nebulosa Valenciennes 1850. Synodontidae: Harpadontinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Mozambique, Aldabra (Seychelles), Comoros, Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) and Maldives east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Society Islands (French Polynesia), north to Ryukyu Islands and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to New South Wales (Australia), New Caledonia and Tonga. Habitat: brackish, marine.
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