mossambica, Pleurosicya Smith [J. L. B.] 1959:218, Fig. 37 [Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University No. 13; ref. 4122] Baixo Pinda, Mozambique, western Indian Ocean. Holotype: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 227. Paratypes: (11) not researched. •Valid as Pleurosicya mossambica Smith 1959 -- (Goren 1984:72 [ref. 8221], Hoese 1986:800 [ref. 5670], Larson 1990:32 [ref. 16607], Kuiter 1993:356 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:167 [ref. 25479], Goren & Dor 1994:66 [ref. 25356], Randall et al. 1997:536 [ref. 25919], Anderson et al. 1998:27 [ref. 23611], Myers 1999:258 [ref. 23965], Ikeda et al. 1999:23 [ref. 24155], Fricke 1999:520 [ref. 24106], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:639 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1218 [ref. 25182], Randall & Earle 2000:19 [ref. 25806], Allen 2000:121 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:44 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3599 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1218 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:60 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:645 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:28 [ref. 27624], Greenfield & Randall 2004:536 [ref. 28175], Randall 2005:547 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Larson 2006:1676 [ref. 29097], Motomura et al. 2010:217 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:907 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:206 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:170 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2015:217 [ref. 33863], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:8 [ref. 33988], Fricke et al. 2018:338 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:159 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:288 [ref. 36673], Mochizuki et al. 2021:52 [ref. 38974], Wada et al. 2021:50 [ref. 38521], Fujiwara et al. 2022:92 [ref. 39094], Larson 2022:124 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:21 [ref. 40247], Goren et al. 2023:121 [ref. 40086]). Current status: Valid as Pleurosicya mossambica Smith 1959. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar, western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) and Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory) east to Marshall Islands and Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to Monte Bello Islands (Western Australia), New South Wales (Australia), Lord Howe Island (Australia), New Caledonia and Tonga. Habitat: marine.
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