sexguttata, Eleotris Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:254 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. Syntypes: MNHN A-1570 (1), A-4269 (1). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:22 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Valenciennea sexguttata (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Dor 1984:251 [ref. 29757], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:243 [ref. 6441], Hoese 1986:806 [ref. 5670] as sexguttatus, Randall et al. 1990:410 [ref. 15987], Randall & Goren 1993:23 [ref. 21131], Hoese & Larson 1994:54 [ref. 12483], Randall et al. 1994:250 [ref. 21645], Goren & Dor 1994:67 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:344 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:220 [ref. 23977], Carpenter et al. 1997:215 [ref. 23922], Randall et al. 1997:410 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:244 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:524 [ref. 24106], Allen 2000:93 [ref. 37268], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:640 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1170 [ref. 25182], Allen 2000:122 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:44 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3600 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1170 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:61 [ref. 26830] as sexguttatus, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S119 [ref. 27377], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:194 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:28 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:126 [ref. 27715], Heemstra et al. 2004:3329 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:557 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Larson 2006:1695 [ref. 29097], Fricke et al. 2009:104 [ref. 30213], Shibukawa 2009:288 [ref. 30449], Suzuki et al. 2011:61 [ref. 31568], Allen & Erdmann 2012:989 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:176 [ref. 33932], Suzuki et al. 2016:2 [ref. 34434], Koeda et al. 2016:96 [ref. 35333], Kovačić et al. 2017:[3]1231 [ref. 36099], Fricke et al. 2018:343 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:163 [ref. 36273], Arndt & Fricke 2019:17 [ref. 36883], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:123 [ref. 40104], Eagderi et al. 2019:67 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:292 [ref. 36673], Ghaffar in Motomura et al. 2021:75 [ref. 38121], Dewa et al. 2022:29 [ref. 40001], Larson 2022:151 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:25 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Valenciennea sexguttata (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Persian Gulf, Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Samoa and Tonga, north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to Western Australia and Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.
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