Boleophthalmus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:198 Masc. Gobius boddarti Pallas 1770. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Bleeker 1874:328 [ref. 437]. Misspelled Bolcophthalmus by Jordan 1923:227 (footnote 477) [ref. 2421]. •Valid as Boleophthalmus Valenciennes 1837 -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:408 [ref. 7348], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:286 [ref. 6441], Birdsong et al. 1988:195 [ref. 7303], Kottelat 1989:18 [ref. 13605], Murdy 1989:11 [ref. 13628], Ataur Rahman 1989:295 [ref. 24860], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:500 [ref. 23876], Larson & Murdy 2001:3592 [ref. 26293], Ataur Rahman 2003:320 [ref. 31338], Hoese & Larson 2006:1629 [ref. 29097], Takita et al. 2011:193 [ref. 31704], Murdy 2011:104 [ref. 31728], Polgar et al. 2013:311 [ref. 32496], Kottelat 2013:404 [ref. 32989], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:898 [ref. 34062], Esmaeili et al. 2017:82 [ref. 35254], Murdy & Jaafar 2017:10 [ref. 35561], Esmaeili et al. 2018:63 [ref. 36089], Parenti 2021:387 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Boleophthalmus Valenciennes 1837. Oxudercidae: Oxudercinae.