soporator, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:56 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Martinique Island, West Indies. Syntypes: MNHN A-1254 (2). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:40 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Gobius soporator Valenciennes 1837 -- (Herrera 1896:61 [ref. 39336]). •Valid as Bathygobius soporator (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Baughman 1947:280 [ref. 41409], Miller 1973:515 [ref. 6888], Maugé 1986:361 [ref. 6218], Robins & Ray 1986:242 [ref. 23100], Miller & Smith 1989:282 [ref. 25535], Miller 1990:926 [ref. 19376], Boschung 1992:162 [ref. 23239], Harrison & Miller in Lévêque et al. 1992:813 [ref. 21590], Garzón-Ferreira & Acero P. 1992:28 [ref. 39338], Cervigón 1994:155 [ref. 24488], Greenfield & Thomerson 1997:238 [ref. 22947], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:553 [ref. 24023], Aguilera 1998:52 [ref. 24221], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:423 [ref. 24550], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:314 [ref. 25013], Schwartz 1999:283 [ref. 25307], Afonso et al. 1999:86 [ref. 25466], Thomson et al. 2000:250 [ref. 25640], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:167 [ref. 27754], Brito & Miller 2001:255 [ref. 25096], Miller & Stefanni 2001:154 [ref. 26034], Camargo & Isaac 2001:142 [ref. 27639], Collette et al. 2003:122 [ref. 26784], Feitoza et al. 2003:69 [ref. 26943], Murdy & Hoese 2003:1792 [ref. 27111], Moura et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:98 [ref. 27192], Smith et al. 2003:59 [ref. 27621], Ross & Rhode 2004:303 [ref. 27789], Nelson et al. 2004:169 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:672 [ref. 28815], Vaske et al. 2005:77 [ref. 36155], Harrison et al. 2007:531 [ref. 30083], Matamoros et al. 2009:24 [ref. 31241], Tornabene et al. 2010:159 [ref. 30990], Van Tassell 2011:140 [ref. 31732], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:184 [ref. 31737], Angulo et al. 2013:1008 [ref. 33194], Di Dario et al. 2013:263 [ref. 37503], Page et al. 2013:175 [ref. 32708], Phillip et al. 2013:24 [ref. 32896], Smith-Vaniz & Collette 2013:180 [ref. 32953], Wirtz et al. 2013:132 [ref. 32972], Catelani et al. 2014:932 [ref. 37496], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2839 [ref. 34618], Rodríguez-Rey et al. 2017:11 [ref. 35433], Costa et al. 2017:46 [ref. 35684], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:345 [ref. 36407], Robins et al. 2018:436 [ref. 35886], Spier et al. 2018:15 [ref. 36103], Reiner 2019:257 [ref. 38139], Ribeiro et al. 2019:6 [ref. 36717], Skelton 2019:228 [ref. 36564], Carvalho-Filho in Marceniuk et al. 2021:233 [ref. 38945], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:75 [ref. 38844], Kovačić et al. 2021:87 [ref. 39014], Parenti 2021:104 [ref. 38603], Fermon et al. 2022:223 [ref. 39448], Angulo et al. 2023:36 [ref. 40676], Barrientos et al. 2023:272 [ref. 41235], Carvalho-Filho 2023:235 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:120 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Bathygobius soporator (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Bermuda, Bahamas and southern Florida (U.S.A.) south to Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea; eastern Atlantic: Senegal south to Angola, including Bioko (Equatorial Guinea), and São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.