Mugilogobius (subgenus of Gobius) Smitt [F. A.] 1900:552 Masc. Ctenogobius abei Jordan & Snyder 1901. Type by subsequent designation. No included species in 1900; Smitt in letter to Jordan in 1903 says that the species was Ctenogobius abei Jordan & Snyder (Jordan 1920:487 [ref. 4905]); species added and type designated by Jordan et al. 1913:345 [ref. 6448]. •Synonym of Gobius Linnaeus 1758 -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:352 [ref. 7348]). •Valid as Mugilogobius Smitt 1900 -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:268 [ref. 6441], Wu & Ni 1985 [ref. 21323], Hoese 1986:795 [ref. 5670], Maugé 1986:376 [ref. 6218], Miller 1987:695 [ref. 6336], Birdsong et al. 1988:188 [ref. 7303], Kottelat 1989:19 [ref. 13605], Roberts 1989:168 [ref. 6439], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:455 [ref. 23876], Allen 1991:188 [ref. 21090], Larson & Kottelat 1992 [ref. 20008], Gomon et al. 1994:793 [ref. 22532], Larson 1999:259 [ref. 23907], Larson 2001:76 [ref. 25522], Larson & Murdy 2001:3590 [ref. 26293], Hoese & Larson 2006:1665 [ref. 29097], Hoese & Larson 2008:760 [ref. 30660], Pezold 2011:94 [ref. 31727], Larson 2011:237 [ref. 31740], Ott 2011:71 [ref. 32266], Thacker 2013:372 [ref. 32494], Kottelat 2013:412 [ref. 32989], Huang et al. 2013:96 [ref. 33734], Larson et al. 2014:718 [ref. 33557], Zhang et al. 2016:201 [ref. 34477], Huang et al. 2016:1 [ref. 34500], Fricke et al. 2018:335 [ref. 35805], Kuiter 2018:88 [ref. 36369], Parenti 2021:327 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Mugilogobius Smitt 1900. Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae.