africana, Eleotris Steindachner [F.] 1879:153 [35], Pl. 3 (figs. 1-1a) [Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 80 (nos 1-2); ref. 4229] Sierra Leone. Holotype (unique): SMNS 336. Type catalog: Fricke 1995:12 [ref. 28100], Fricke 2005:35 [ref. 29864]. On p. 35 of separate. See Eleotris kraussii Steindachner 1880. •Valid as Bostrychus africanus (Steindachner 1879) -- (Maugé 1986:390 [ref. 6218], Miller & Wongrat 1990:953 [ref. 19381], Lévèque et al. 1991:146 [ref. 31367], Harrison & Miller in Lévêque et al. 1992:831 [ref. 21590], Afonso et al. 1999:86 [ref. 25466], Larson 2008:147 [ref. 30001], Pezold et al. 2007:481 [ref. 30082], Wirtz et al. 2007:39 [ref. 30263], Schliewen 2011:210 [ref. 31738], Félix et al. 2016:D [4] [ref. 34346], Miller in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2829 [ref. 34618], Reiner 2019:255 [ref. 38139], Skelton 2019:228 [ref. 36564], Parenti 2021:19 [ref. 38603], Fermon et al. 2022:220 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Bostrychus africanus (Steindachner 1879). Eleotridae: Butinae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Senegal south to Angola, including São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.