microlepis, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1849:35 [Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. v. 22 [6]; ref. 319] Madura Straits near Surabaya and Sumanap, Java, Indonesia. Syntypes or holotype: RMNH 6179 (1 of 44). Appeared without distinguishing features in list in Bleeker 1849:5 [ref. 320]. •Valid as Oxyurichthys microlepis (Bleeker 1849) -- (Maugé 1986:378 [ref. 6218], Hoese 1986:797 [ref. 5670], Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:282 [ref. 26639], Ataur Rahman 1989:301 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:941 [ref. 20764], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:471 [ref. 23876], Rema Devi 1993:176 [ref. 24020], Kottelat et al. 1993:147 [ref. 23448], Rainboth 1996:206 [ref. 22772], Pezold 1998:694 [ref. 23420], Suzuki et al. 2000:2 [ref. 24535], Suzuki et al. 2000:2 [ref. 24582], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:639 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1259 [ref. 25182], Larson & Murdy 2001:3601 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1259 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:59 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S118 [ref. 27377], Ataur Rahman 2003:326 [ref. 31338], Hoese & Larson 2006:1669 [ref. 29097], Larson et al. 2008:143 [ref. 29532], Shibukawa 2009:281 [ref. 30449], Huang et al. 2014:109 [ref. 33161], Kottelat 2013:415 [ref. 32989], Pezold & Larson 2015:5, 6, 39 [ref. 33894], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:264 [ref. 36460], Suresh et al. 2018:286 [ref. 36495], Parenti 2021:337 [ref. 38603], Taki et al. 2021:472 [ref. 39830], Larson 2022:166 [ref. 39971], Endruweit 2024:87 [ref. 41040]). Current status: Valid as Oxyurichthys microlepis (Bleeker 1849). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Pakistan and India east to Indonesia, north to Vietnam and Hainan, China, south to Queensland (Australia). Habitat: brackish, marine.