anguillaris, Gobius Linnaeus [C.] 1758:264 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] China. Holotype (unique): ZMUU Linn. Coll. 185. Type catalog: Lönnberg 1896:41 [ref. 23530], Wheeler 1991:186-187, Fig. 24 [ref. 20102]. •Valid as Taenioides anguillaris (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:310 [ref. 26639], Allen 1991:202 [ref. 21090], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:984 [ref. 20764], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:447 [ref. 23876], Allen et al. 1992:303 [ref. 21400], Kottelat et al. 1993:156 [ref. 23448], Rema Devi 1993:185 [ref. 24020], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:6 [ref. 25122], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:191 [ref. 27510], Proudlove 2006:269 [ref. 28992], Murdy 2011:113 [ref. 31729], Kottelat 2013:434 [ref. 32989], Murdy 2018:454 [ref. 36225], Suresh et al. 2018:290 [ref. 36495], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 14 [ref. 38321], Parenti 2021:62 [ref. 38603], Miyahira & Tachihara 2022:25 [ref. 39010], Jamandre 2023:170 [ref. 40455]). Current status: Valid as Taenioides anguillaris (Linnaeus 1758). Oxudercidae: Amblyopinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: India east to Philippines, north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to Australia. IUCN (2019): Least Concern. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.