Gobiesox Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1800:595 Masc. Gobiesox cephalus Lacepède 1800. Type by monotypy. Also appeared in Sonnini 1803:279 (vol. 7) [ref. 30473]. Gobiesox of Müller & Troschel 1849 (not of Lacepède) is a synonym of Chorisochismus Brisout de Barneville (Briggs 1955:39 [ref. 637]). •Valid as Gobiesox Lacepède 1800 -- (Briggs 1955:87 [ref. 637], Allen 1984:629 [ref. 13673], Pequeño 1989:41 [ref. 14125], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:467 [ref. 24550], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:797 [ref. 25968], McEachran 2003:1774 [ref. 27089], Ferraris in Reis et al. 2003:511 [ref. 27061], Scharpf 2009:11 [ref. 30400], Hastings & Conway 2017:393 [ref. 35062], Conway et al. 2017:[8] [ref. 35287], Conway et al. 2020:889 [ref. 38030] in Gobiesocinae). Current status: Valid as Gobiesox Lacepède 1800. Gobiesocidae: Gobiesocinae.