oxycephala, Eleotris Temminck [C. J.] & Schlegel [H.] 1845:150, Pl. 77 (figs. 4-5) [Fauna Japonica Parts 7-9; ref. 4373] Japan. Syntypes: (2), whereabouts unknown. Type catalog: Boeseman 1947:130 [ref. 12876]. •Valid as Eleotris oxycephala Temminck & Schlegel 1845 -- (Okada 1961:646 [ref. 6363], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:340 [ref. 7348], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:240 [ref. 6441], Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:265 [ref. 26639], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:553 [ref. 25598], Zheng 1989:335 [ref. 21202], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:429 [ref. 23876], Zhu 1995:174 [ref. 25213], Kim 1997:422 [ref. 24032], Takahashi et al. 1997:47 [ref. 24971], Miller 1998:289 [ref. 24950], Sato et al. 1998:41 [ref. 24972], Mizuno et al. 1999:11 [ref. 25311] as Elenotris, Nakabo 2000:1150 [ref. 25182], Matsuura et al. 2000:217 [ref. 26000], Kottelat 2001:60 [ref. 25482], Sakai et al. 2001:107 [ref. 25693], Kim & Park 2002:348 [ref. 25913], Nakabo 2002:1150 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:397, 655 [ref. 26218], Ho & Shao 2011:55 [ref. 31432], Kottelat 2013:393 [ref. 32989], Zhang et al. 2016:199 [ref. 34477], Mennesson et al. 2021:491 [ref. 38793], Parenti 2021:38 [ref. 38603], Endruweit 2024:73 [ref. 41040]). Current status: Valid as Eleotris oxycephala Temminck & Schlegel 1845. Eleotridae: Eleotrinae. Distribution: Western Pacific: southeast China north to Japan. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.