Gobiodon Bleeker [P.] (ex Kuhl & van Hasselt) 1856:385, 407 Masc. Gobiodon heterospilos Bleeker 1856. Type by subsequent designation. Earliest type designation found is Jordan 1919:267 [ref. 2410]; type not Gobius histrio as listed by Maugé 1986, apparently not designated by Bleeker 1874:309 [ref. 437] where two types are listed. •Valid as Gobiodon Bleeker 1856 -- (Yoshino & Yamamoto in Masuda et al. 1984:265 [ref. 6441], Hoese 1986:791 [ref. 5670], Maugé 1986:369 [ref. 6218], Birdsong et al. 1988:193 [ref. 7303], Harold & Winterbottom 1995:687 [ref. 21923], Harold & Winterbottom 1999:49 [ref. 23701], Munday et al. 1999:53 [ref. 24284], Larson & Murdy 2001:3582 [ref. 26293], Thacker & Cole 2002:840 [ref. 26548], Winterbottom & Harold 2005:582 [ref. 28358], Hoese & Larson 2006:1655 [ref. 29097], Harold et al. 2008:119 [ref. 29450], Bogorodsky et al. 2010:120 [ref. 30896], Dimara et al. 2010:621 [ref. 31108], Thacker 2011:130 [ref. 31731], Suzuki et al. 2012:59 [ref. 32027], Herler et al. 2013:301 [ref. 32889], Shibukawa et al. 2013:143 [ref. 32951], Fricke et al. 2018:333 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:154 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:285 [ref. 36673], Allen 2021:11 [ref. 38272], Parenti 2021:167 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Gobiodon Bleeker 1856. Gobiidae: Gobiinae.