barbatus, Triaenophorichthys Günther [A.] 1861:90 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 3; ref. 1964] China. Syntypes: (4) BMNH 1851.12.27.101 (1), 1851.12.27.269 (1), 1855.9.19.1429 (1). •Valid as Tridentiger barbatus (Günther 1861) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:271 [ref. 6441], Lin et al. 1994:175 [ref. 21512], Fuller et al. 1999:463 [ref. 25838], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:640 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1258 [ref. 25182], Nakabo 2002:1258 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:400, 665 [ref. 26218], Greiner 2002:68 [ref. 26780], Nelson et al. 2004:173 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:163 [ref. 37547], Page et al. 2013:179 [ref. 32708], Cui et al. 2013:188 [ref. 32726], Kells et al. 2016:308 [ref. 35888], Kim et al. 2020:175 [ref. 39118], Love et al. 2021:207 [ref. 39279], Parenti 2021:376 [ref. 38603], Page et al. 2023:125 [ref. 40505], Thu & Thao 2023:642 [ref. 40499]). •Valid as Triaenopogon barbatus (Günther 1861) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:350 [ref. 7348], Zheng 1989:355 [ref. 21202], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:454 [ref. 23876], Zhu 1995:177 [ref. 25213], Cheng & Zhou 1997:368 [ref. 26385], Wang et al. 2001:276 [ref. 26566], Endruweit 2024:86 [ref. 41040]). Current status: Valid as Triaenopogon barbatus (Günther 1861). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: northern Vietnam and Taiwan north to Korea and Japan. Introduced in San Francisco Bay (California, U.S.A.). Habitat: brackish.