viridis, Gobius Hamilton [F.] 1822:42, 366, Pl. 32 (fig. 12) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Ganges River estuary, India. No types known. Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Gobius viridis Otto 1821, apparently not replaced. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 28 [ref. 37532]. •Wrongly treated as valid as Scartelaos viridis (Hamilton 1822) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:286 [ref. 6441], Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:307 [ref. 26639], Ataur Rahman 1989:294 [ref. 24860], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:496 [ref. 23876], Chen et al. 1997:164 [ref. 26476]). •Synonym of Scartelaos histophorus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Murdy 1989:51 [ref. 13628], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:960 [ref. 20764], Rainboth 1996:211 [ref. 22772], Ataur Rahman 2003:319 [ref. 31338], Hoese & Larson 2006:1682 [ref. 29097], Kottelat 2013:426 [ref. 32989], Larson 2022:176 [ref. 39971]). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Scartelaos histophorus (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Oxudercinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.