stigmaticus, Smaragdus Poey [F.] 1860:281 [Memorias sobre la historia natural de la Isla de Cuba v. 2; ref. 3499] Cuba. Holotype (unique): MCZ 13104. Type catalog: Howell Rivero 1938:214 [ref. 22926]. •Valid as Gobionellus stigmaticus (Poey 1860) -- (Pezold & Edwards 1983:103 [ref. 37431], Pezold & Gilbert 1987:174 [ref. 6777], Boschung 1992:164 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1994:184 [ref. 24488], Marín 2000:78 [ref. 26252], Camargo & Isaac 2001:142 [ref. 27639]). •Valid as Ctenogobius stigmaticus (Poey 1860) -- (Schwartz 1999:285 [ref. 25307], Murdy & Hoese 2003:1795 [ref. 27111], Moura et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:98 [ref. 27192], Pezold 2004:273 [ref. 27685], Ross & Rhode 2004:308 [ref. 27789], Nelson et al. 2004:170 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:693 [ref. 28815], Matamoros et al. 2009:24 [ref. 31241], Burns et al. 2010:56 [ref. 41505], Van Tassell 2011:143 [ref. 31732], Di Dario et al. 2013:263 [ref. 37503], Page et al. 2013:176 [ref. 32708], Ribeiro et al. 2019:6 [ref. 36717], Carvalho-Filho in Marceniuk et al. 2021:239 [ref. 38945], Parenti 2021:311 [ref. 38603], Pezold 2022:125 [ref. 39351], Carvalho-Filho 2023:237 [ref. 40480], Gurgel-Lourenço et al. 2023:77 [ref. 41056], Page et al. 2023:122 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Ctenogobius stigmaticus (Poey 1860). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: North Carolina (U.S.A.) south to Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Habitat: marine.