gracilis, Amblyopus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:166 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Puducherry, India. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-1465. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:18 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Taenioides gracilis (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Maugé 1986:385 [ref. 6218], Rainboth 1996:213 [ref. 22772], Larson & Williams 1997:372 [ref. 23967], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:640 [ref. 25122], Larson & Murdy 2001:3594 [ref. 26293], Larson et al. 2008:139 [ref. 29532], Murdy 2011:113 [ref. 31729], Larson et al. 2013:208 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:434 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:194 [ref. 34464], Huang et al. 2014:114 [ref. 33161], Fricke et al. 2018:341 [ref. 35805], Murdy 2018:454 [ref. 36225], Koreeda & Motomura 2021:77 [ref. 38528], Parenti 2021:63 [ref. 38603], Taki et al. 2021:482 [ref. 39830], Larson 2022:24 [ref. 39965], Maeda et al. 2022:[8] [ref. 39740], Yamashita et al. 2022:5 [ref. 39323], Furuhashi et al. 2023:29 [ref. 40140], Jamandre 2023:170 [ref. 40455]). Current status: Valid as Taenioides gracilis (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Amblyopinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa (Mozambique) and Madagascar east to India and Vietnam, north to Chiba Prefecture (Japan), south to northern Australia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.