jozo, Gobius Linnaeus [C.] 1758:263 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Southern Europe. Syntypes: ?NRM 9453 (1), 9454 (1). Type catalog: Fernholm & Wheeler 1983:268-269 [ref. 20707]. Also appeared in Linnaeus 1764:65 [ref. 2788] as Gobius gozo. Species epithet misspelled jozzo by Cabrera et al. 1817:3 [ref. 17319], see Graells 1878:177 [ref. 30438]; Cuvier 1831:178 [ref. 30376]. •Valid as Gobius jozo Linnaeus 1758 -- (Herrera 1896:61 [ref. 39336]). •Synonym of Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758, but a valid subspecies -- (Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1042 [ref. 13677]). •Synonym of Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758 -- (Miller 1973:483 [ref. 6888], Maugé 1986:373 [ref. 6218], Miller 1990:935 [ref. 19376], Kottelat 1997:176 [ref. 22952] with question, Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:132 [ref. 26753], Vasil'eva 2003:S44 [ref. 28444], Ahnelt & Dorda 2004:8 [ref. 27637], Golani 2005:57 [ref. 37112], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:64 [ref. 36649], Parin et al. 2015:482 [ref. 33547], Golani 2021:76 [ref. 38303], Parenti 2021:178 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.