Species that contain: Rupiscartes and atlanticus [ 2 ] records

atlanticus, Salarias Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1836:321 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 11; ref. 1005] Madeira. Lectotype: MNHN A-2024. Paralectotypes: MNHN A-2027 (1), B-2510 [ex A-2024] (1). Type catalog: Bauchot 1967:25 [ref. 20734]. Lectotype selected by Springer 1962:432 [ref. 6500]. •Valid as Rupiscartes atlanticus (Valenciennes 1836) -- (Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:250 [ref. 24555]). •Valid as Ophioblennius atlanticus (Valenciennes 1826), subspecies atlanticus -- (Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:309 [ref. 25013], Afonso et al. 1999:78 [ref. 25466], Thomson et al. 2000:201 [ref. 25640], Smith et al. 2003:57 [ref. 27621], Wirtz et al. 2007:38 [ref. 30263]). •Valid as Ophioblennius atlanticus (Valenciennes 1836) -- (Robins & Ray 1986:229 [ref. 23100], Edwards & Glass 1987:657 [ref. 9166], Bath 1990:914 [ref. 19373], Cervigón 1994:129 [ref. 24488], Santos et al. 1997:100 [ref. 23531], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:535 [ref. 24023], Arruda 1997:106 [ref. 24952] as valid species and subspecies, Aguilera 1998:52 [ref. 24221], Rocha & Rosa 2001:991 [ref. 25909], Moura & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:96 [ref. 27192], Patzner et al. 2009:458 [ref. 30396], Hastings & Springer 2009:7 [ref. 31156], Wirtz et al. 2013:131 [ref. 32972], Williams & Springer in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2805 [ref. 34618], Carneiro et al. 2019:209 [ref. 37250], Reiner 2019:252 [ref. 38139], Carballo et al. 2021:56 [ref. 39250], Fermon et al. 2022:274 [ref. 39448], Hoff et al. 2023:5 [ref. 40463]). Current status: Valid as Ophioblennius atlanticus (Valenciennes 1836). Blenniidae: Salariinae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Senegal south to Angola, including Azores (Portugal), Madeira (Portugal), Canary Islands (Spain), and São Tomé and Principe. May be restricted to Madeira [Williams & Springer in ref. 34618]. Habitat: marine.

macclurei, Rupiscartes Silvester [C. F.] 1915:217 [Carnegie Institution of Washington Year Book No. 14; ref. 4027] Dead coral reef west of Guanica Harbor, Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea. Holotype: PU 3081. Paratypes: PU 3027 (1). Species originally described as Rupiscartes macclurei, but later published and figured in Silvester 1918:24. Pl. 3 (fig. 2) [ref. 15257] as Alticus macclurei. •Synonym of Ophioblennius atlanticus (Valenciennes 1836), but a valid subspecies -- (Greenfield & Johnson 1981:71 [ref. 5580], Cervigón 1994:129 [ref. 24488], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:309 [ref. 25013], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:166 [ref. 27754], Smith et al. 2003:57 [ref. 27621]). •Valid as Ophioblennius macclurei (Silvester 1915) -- (Collette et al. 2003:122 [ref. 26784], Williams 2003:1772 [ref. 27109], Nelson et al. 2004:167 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:638 [ref. 28815], Rangel & Mendes 2009:58 [ref. 30055] once as mccclurei, as species or subspecies, Patzner et al. 2009:458 [ref. 30396], Hastings & Springer 2009:7 [ref. 31156], Page et al. 2013:168 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:72 [ref. 33341], Robertson et al. 2016:147 [ref. 34961], Robertson et al. 2020:151 [ref. 38098], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:77 [ref. 38844], Bennema & van Moorsel 2022:72 [ref. 39585], Page et al. 2023:158 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Ophioblennius macclurei (Silvester 1915). Blenniidae: Salariinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic. Habitat: marine.