acanthopomus, Eleotris Bleeker [P.] 1853:275 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 4 (no. 2); ref. 12580] Western Sumatra, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): RMNH 25934. We treat acanthopomus as an indeclinable noun. •Valid as Eleotris acanthopomus Bleeker 1853 -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:239 [ref. 6441], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:555 [ref. 25598], Kottelat et al. 1993:134 [ref. 23448], Kottelat & Lim 1996:246 [ref. 23210], Reinthal & Stiassny 1997:354 [ref. 22780], Miller 1998:289 [ref. 24950], Nakabo 2000:1150 [ref. 25182], Matsuura et al. 2000:216 [ref. 26000], Larson & Murdy 2001:3577 [ref. 26293], Sakai et al. 2001:106 [ref. 25693], Nakabo 2002:1150 [ref. 26193], Myers & Donaldson 2003:641 [ref. 27495], Hoese 2006:1599 [ref. 28998], Motomura et al. 2010:202 [ref. 31256], Maeda et al. 2011:257 [ref. 32003], Kottelat 2013:392 [ref. 32989], Kim et al. 2015:50 [ref. 39486] as acanthopoma, Koeda et al. 2016:87 [ref. 35333], Mennesson et al. 2016:498, 503 [ref. 34867], Zhang et al. 2016:198 [ref. 34477], Mennesson & Keith 2017:215 [ref. 35460], Motomura et al. 2017:196 [ref. 35490], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:252 [ref. 36460], Fricke et al. 2019:268 [ref. 36673], Mennesson & Keith 2020:202 [ref. 37852], Keith et al. 2021:84 [ref. 38257], Mennesson et al. 2021:489 [ref. 38793], Parenti 2021:34 [ref. 38603] as acanthopoma, Esmaeili et al. 2022:477 [ref. 39253], Kobayashi et al. 2022:7 [ref. 39009] as acanthopoma, Esmaeili & Hamidan 2023:212 [ref. 40377], Esmaeili et al. 2023:[5] 168 [ref. 40258], Jamandre 2023:167 [ref. 40455] as acanthopoma, Çiçek et al. 2024:299 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Eleotris acanthopomus Bleeker 1853. Eleotridae: Eleotrinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: southern Oman, Comoros, Seychelles; Indonesia east to Micronesia and French Polynesia, north to Jeju Island (Korea) and Ibaraki Prefecture (Japan), south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.