Ecsenius portenoyi Springer

Victor G. Springer & Gerald R. Allen, 2004, Ecsenius caeruliventris and E. shirleyae, two new species of blenniid fishes from Indonesia, and new distribution records for other species of Ecsenius., Zootaxa 791, pp. 1-12 : 11

Ecsenius portenoyi Springer ,

USNM 364017 (9 specimens), Wallis Islands, Ile Uvea, 13°23’95” S, 176°14’15” W.

The additional character given by Springer and Randall (1999:42) to distinguish E. portenoyi from E. pardus McKinney & Springer is erroneous. It should read, “The interspace between the first and second or second and third spots in E. pardus is equal to or more than1.5 X the diameter of one of the spots, whereas in E. portenoyi it is almost always less than the diameter of any of the three spots.”