Species that contain: Stanulus and seychellensis [ 3 ] records

minutus, Fallacirripectes Schultz [L. P.] & Chapman [W. M.] in Schultz et al. 1960:363, Fig. 124 [Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 202, v. 2; ref. 3972] Ocean reef in surf, Eman Island, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Is, western Pacific. Holotype: USNM 142153. Paratypes: USNM 142149-51 (6, 2, 1), 142152 (3, not 2, c&s). Type catalog: Springer et al. 1991:15 [ref. 18888]. •Synonym of Stanulus seychellensis Smith 1959 -- (Springer 1968:113 [ref. 7921]). Current status: Synonym of Stanulus seychellensis Smith 1959. Blenniidae: Salariinae. Habitat: marine.

seychellensis, Stanulus Smith [J. L. B.] 1959:246, Pl. 17 (fig. 13) [Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University No. 14; ref. 4123] La Digue Island, Seychelles, western Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 243. •Valid as Stanulus seychellensis Smith 1959 -- (Springer 1968:113 [ref. 7921], Shen et al. 1986:21 [ref. 13821], Myers 1999:228 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:489 [ref. 24106], Randall 1999:26 [ref. 25829], Springer in Randall & Lim 2000:634 [ref. 25122], Springer 2001:3546 [ref. 26290], Allen & Adrim 2003:55 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:641 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:26 [ref. 27624] as Springer 1968, Randall 2005:504 [ref. 28239], Fricke & Kulbicki 2006:347 [ref. 28867], Hoese & Bray 2006:1565 [ref. 29000], Fricke et al. 2009:97 [ref. 30213], Patzner et al. 2009:461 [ref. 30396], Allen & Erdmann 2012:837 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:153 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2019:262 [ref. 36673], Williams & Springer 2022:382 [ref. 39951], Allen & Erdmann 2024:919 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Stanulus seychellensis Smith 1959. Blenniidae: Salariinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Comoros, Seychelles, western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) and Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory); Caroline Islands, New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) and eastern Australia east to Marshall Islands and Henderson (Pitcairn Group), north to southern Taiwan, south to Queensland (Australia), Loyalty Islands (New Caledonia) and Tonga. Habitat: marine.

wellsi, Fallacirripectes Schultz [L. P.] & Chapman [W. M.] in Schultz et al. 1960:365, Fig. 125 [Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 202, v. 2; ref. 3972] Bowditch anchorage, half mile off Rongelap Island, Rongelap Atoll, western Pacific. Holotype (unique): USNM 142154. Type catalog: Springer et al. 1991:25 [ref. 18888]. •Synonym of Stanulus seychellensis Smith 1959 -- (Springer 1968:115 [ref. 7921]). Current status: Synonym of Stanulus seychellensis Smith 1959. Blenniidae: Salariinae. Habitat: marine.