semidoliatus, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:67 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Vanikoro Island, Santa Cruz Islands, southwestern Pacific. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-1124. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:39 [ref. 19958]. Spelled semidolietus on p. x. •Valid as Gobius semidoliatus Valenciennes 1837 -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:354 [ref. 7348]). •Valid as Zonogobius semidoliatus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Goren 1979:58 [ref. 1852], Dor 1984:252 [ref. 29757]). •Valid as Priolepis semidoliata (Valenciennes 1837) [sometimes as semidoliatus] -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:248 [ref. 6441], Allen & Swainston 1988:136 [ref. 25477], Winterbottom & Burridge 1993:505 [ref. 20895], Randall & Goren 1993:20 [ref. 21131], Francis 1993:167 [ref. 25479] as semidoliatus, Kuiter 1993:354 [ref. 23929], Goren & Dor 1994:66 [ref. 25356], Goren & Baranes 1995:346 [ref. 21951], Aonuma et al. 1996:325 [ref. 22433], Allen 1997:218 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:536 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:259 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:521 [ref. 24106], Randall 1999:27 [ref. 25829], Allen 2000:93 [ref. 37268] as semidoliatus, Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:639 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1172 [ref. 25182], Randall & Earle 2000:20 [ref. 25806], Sakai et al. 2001:115 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:44 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3599 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1172 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:60 [ref. 26830] as semidoliatus, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S119 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:645 [ref. 27495], Lobel & Lobel 2004:76 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:28 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:549 [ref. 28239], Herler & Hilgers 2005:127 [ref. 28528], Mundy 2005:480 [ref. 28379], Hoese & Larson 2006:1679 [ref. 29097], Nogawa & Endo 2007:159 [ref. 29104], Larson et al. 2008:150 [ref. 29532], Fricke et al. 2009:103 [ref. 30213], Shibukawa 2009:284 [ref. 30449] as semidoliatus, Motomura et al. 2010:218 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:932 [ref. 31980], Hoese et al. 2015:539 [ref. 33990], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:8 [ref. 33988], Bogorodsky et al. 2016:171 [ref. 34658], Fricke et al. 2018:338 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:160 [ref. 36273], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:266 [ref. 36460] as semidoliatus, Arndt & Fricke 2019:17 [ref. 36883], Parenti 2021:218 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:130 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:22 [ref. 40247], Fricke et al. 2024:74 [ref. 41255], Furuhashi et al. 2024:17 [ref. 41415]). Current status: Valid as Priolepis semidoliata (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa (Mozambique), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar, western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) and Maldives east to Johnston Atoll and Pitcairn Group, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Norfolk Island (Australia), and Austral Islands (French Polynesia). Habitat: marine.