adustus, Gobiesox Jordan [D. S.] & Gilbert [C. H.] 1882:360 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 4 (no. 237); ref. 2470] Mazatlán, Sinaloa, western Mexico. Syntypes: USNM 29249 (3). •Valid as Gobiesox adustus Jordan & Gilbert 1882 -- (Briggs 1955:118 [ref. 637], Allen & Robertson 1994:86 [ref. 22193], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:151 [ref. 24545], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:469 [ref. 24550], Thomson et al. 2000:265 [ref. 25640], Nelson et al. 2004:167 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:159 [ref. 37547] as ajustus, Page et al. 2013:172 [ref. 32708], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:145 [ref. 34871], Fourriére et al. 2016:449 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:608 [ref. 34923], Conway et al. 2017:[9] [ref. 35287], Love et al. 2021:201 [ref. 39279], Torres-Hernández et al. 2022:3 [ref. 39278], Page et al. 2023:151 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Gobiesox adustus Jordan & Gilbert 1882. Gobiesocidae: Gobiesocinae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: southern tip of Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to Ecuador, including Gulf of California (Mexico), Revillagigedo Islands (Mexico) and Cocos Island (Costa Rica). Habitat: marine.