boehlkei, Barbuligobius Lachner [E. A.] & McKinney [J. F.] 1974:871, Figs. 1-4 [Copeia 1974 (no. 4); ref. 2547] Southwestern shore off Ch'uan-fan-shih, Taiwan, 21°55.8'N, 120°48.8'E, depth 4.6-6.4 meters. Holotype: USNM 209209. Paratypes: ANSP 122867-69 (2, 3, 1); FMNH 77007 (1); SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 1913 (1); USNM 209210-14 (1, 1, 2, 1, 2). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:105 [ref. 13621], Ibarra & Stewart 1987:15 [ref. 12367], Ho & Shao 2011:55 [ref. 31432]. •Valid as Barbuligobius boehlkei Lachner & McKinney 1974 -- (Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:264 [ref. 6441], Hoese 1986:780 [ref. 5670], Chen et al. 1997:133 [ref. 22867], Suzuki et al. 1999:2 [ref. 24400], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:635 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1204 [ref. 25182], Hutchins 2001:42 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3595 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1204 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:57 [ref. 26830], Heemstra et al. 2004:3328 [ref. 27945], Hoese & Larson 2006:1626 [ref. 29097], Ho & Shao 2011:55 [ref. 31432], Larson 2011:238 [ref. 31740], Allen & Erdmann 2012:960 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2018:326 [ref. 35805], Hoschke et al. 2019:160 [ref. 36626], Parenti 2021:98 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:48 [ref. 39971], Saito et al. 2023:1 [ref. 40122]). Current status: Valid as Barbuligobius boehlkei Lachner & McKinney 1974. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Vanuatu, north to Chiba Prefecture (Japan), south to Recherche Archipelago (Western Australia) and Linnet Reef (Queensland, Australia). Habitat: marine.