lacunosa, Atherina Forster [J. R.] in Bloch & Schneider 1801:112, xxxi [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] New Caledonia [Balade, Province Nord, northeastern Grande Terre, southwestern Pacific]. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-4400. Type catalog: Bauchot 1969:131 [ref. 20807], Blanc & Hureau 1971:706 [ref. 21541]. Described as Atherinam lacunosam Forster manuscript on p. 112 but Latinized on p. xxxi as above. Based on description in manuscript by Forster (Johann Reinhold Forster, 1729-1798, German explorer and naturalist of Cook's second voyage). •Valid as Atherinomorus lacunosus (Forster 1801) -- (Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:119 [ref. 6441], Quignard & Pras in Whitehead et al. 1986:1210 [ref. 13677], Ivantsoff 1986:382 [ref. 6292], Paxton et al. 1989:356 [ref. 12442], Paulin et al. 1989:146 [ref. 24556], Winterbottom et al. 1989:16 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:59 [ref. 15987], Ivantsoff & Crowley 1991:487 [ref. 19162], Kottelat et al. 1993:92 [ref. 23448], Krishnan & Mishra 1994:278 [ref. 24014], Goren & Dor 1994:16 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:85 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:206 [ref. 27969], Larson & Williams 1997:351 [ref. 23967], Carpenter et al. 1997:127 [ref. 23922], Kuiter 1997:56 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:59 [ref. 25919], Golani 1998:97 [ref. 27567], Myers 1999:73 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:111 [ref. 24106], Ivantsoff & Crowley 1999:2125 [ref. 24783], Nakabo 2000:543 [ref. 25086], Ivantsoff in Randall & Lim 2000:598 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:344 [ref. 25191], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:97 [ref. 26368], Kimura & Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:157 [ref. 27511], Kimura et al. 2001:170 [ref. 25381], Sakai et al. 2001:89 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:25 [ref. 25847], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:58 [ref. 26753], Nakabo 2002:543 [ref. 26001], Kimura et al. 2002:243 [ref. 26333], Allen & Adrim 2003:26 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S99 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:615 [ref. 27495], Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:25 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:8 [ref. 27624], Heemstra et al. 2004:3317 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:125 [ref. 28072], Larson & Pidgeon 2004:196 [ref. 28107], Golani 2005:28 [ref. 37112], Randall 2005:78 [ref. 28239], Paxton et al. 2006:702 [ref. 28995], Kimura et al. 2007:150 [ref. 29157], Fricke et al. 2007:68 [ref. 29533], Fricke et al. 2009:30 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:80 [ref. 31256], Fricke et al. 2011:369 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:159 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:252 [ref. 32706], Larson et al. 2013:62 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:286 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:59 [ref. 34464], Fricke et al. 2014:37 [ref. 33932], Sasaki & Kimura 2014:3 [ref. 33189] as cf. lacunosis, Fricke et al. 2018:101 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:44 [ref. 36273], Kimura in Kimura et al. 2018:69 [ref. 36460], Suresh et al. 2018:157 [ref. 36495], Eagderi et al. 2019:19 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:76 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:66 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 10 [ref. 38321], Sasaki in Motomura et al. 2021:17 [ref. 38121], Kimura 2022:331 [ref. 39715], Zajonz et al. 2022:58 [ref. 40522], Allen & Erdmann 2024:175 [ref. 40796], Fricke et al. 2024:65 [ref. 41255]). Current status: Valid as Atherinomorus lacunosus (Forster 1801). Atherinidae: Atherinomorinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia), north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Western Australia, New South Wales (Australia) and Rapa (French Polynesia); Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: brackish, marine.
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