Periophthalmus Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:63 (xxvii) Masc. Periophthalmus papilio Bloch & Schneider 1801. Type by subsequent designation. Type apparently designated first by Bleeker 1874:326 [ref. 437]. Genus name misspelled Periophtalmus by Cuvier 1831:180 [ref. 30378]. •Valid as Periophthalmus Bloch & Schneider 1801 -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:417 [ref. 7348], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:286 [ref. 6441], Hoese 1986:799 [ref. 5670], Maugé 1986:399 [ref. 6218], Birdsong et al. 1988:196 [ref. 7303], Kottelat 1989:19 [ref. 13605], Murdy 1989:30 [ref. 13628], Ataur Rahman 1989:297 [ref. 24860], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:502 [ref. 23876], Allen 1991:190 [ref. 21090], Harrison & Miller in Lévêque et al. 1992:801 [ref. 21590], Larson & Murdy 2001:3593 [ref. 26293], Ataur Rahman 2003:322 [ref. 31338], Larson & Takita 2004:176 [ref. 28075], Hoese & Larson 2006:1673 [ref. 29097], Jaafar & Larson 2008:946 [ref. 29863], Harrison et al. 2007:497 [ref. 30083], Takita et al. 2011:193 [ref. 31704], Murdy 2011:105 [ref. 31728], Schliewen 2011:212 [ref. 31738] in Gobionellidae, Kottelat 2013:418 [ref. 32989], Ghanbarifardi et al. 2014:133 [ref. 33435], Polgar et al. 2014:161 [ref. 35464], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:899 [ref. 34062], Konstantinidis et al. 2016:[4] [ref. 34504], Jaafar et al. 2016:278 [ref. 34685], Esmaeili et al. 2017:84 [ref. 35254], Murdy & Jaafar 2017:17 [ref. 35561], Esmaeili et al. 2018:65 [ref. 36089], Fricke et al. 2018:337 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:158 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:287 [ref. 36673], Parenti 2021:390 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Periophthalmus Bloch & Schneider 1801. Oxudercidae: Oxudercinae.