Oxyurichthys Bleeker [P.] 1857:464 Masc. Gobius belosso Bleeker 1854. Type by subsequent designation. Also appeared in Bleeker 1860:44 [ref. 379]. Misprinted once as Oxyurichthus by Bleeker 1874:324 [ref. 437]. Type designated by Bleeker 1874:324 [ref. 437]. •Valid as Oxyurichthys Bleeker 1857 -- (Goren 1979:49 [ref. 1852], Larson & Hoese 1980:43 [ref. 2725], Kurup & Samuel 1982 [ref. 6796], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:262 [ref. 6441], Hoese 1986:796 [ref. 5670], Maugé 1986:378 [ref. 6218], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1066 [ref. 13677], Birdsong et al. 1988:188 [ref. 7303], Kottelat 1989:19 [ref. 13605], Ataur Rahman 1989:301 [ref. 24860], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:471 [ref. 23876], Pezold 1998:687 [ref. 23420], Suzuki et al. 2000:2 [ref. 24582], Larson 2001:42 [ref. 25522], Larson & Murdy 2001:3592 [ref. 26293], Murdy & Hoese 2003:1791[ref. 27111], Ataur Rahman 2003:326 [ref. 31338], Pezold 2004:273 [ref. 27685], Hoese & Larson 2006:1669 [ref. 29097], Pezold 2011:95 [ref. 31727], Van Tassell 2011:145 [ref. 31732], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:187 [ref. 31737], Kottelat 2013:415 [ref. 32989], Pezold & Larson 2015:7 [ref. 33894], Motomura et al. 2017:199 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:336 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:158 [ref. 36273], Parenti 2021:336 [ref. 38603], Zarei et al. 2022:361 [ref. 39576]). Current status: Valid as Oxyurichthys Bleeker 1857. Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae.