poicilosoma, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1849:31 [Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. v. 22 [6]; ref. 319] Pasuruan, Java, Indonesia. Syntypes: RMNH 4488 (some of 7). Also appeared with this spelling in Bleeker 1850:10 [ref. 16883]. •Valid as Stigmatogobius poicilosoma (Bleeker 1849) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:948 [ref. 20764]). •Valid as Pseudogobius poicilosoma (Bleeker 1849) -- (Kottelat et al. 1993:150 [ref. 23448], Larson 2001:203 [ref. 25522], Larson & Murdy 2001:3601 [ref. 26293], Hoese & Larson 2006:1680 [ref. 29097], Larson et al. 2013:207 [ref. 32988] as poicilosomus, Kottelat 2013:422 [ref. 32989], Huang et al. 2013:94 [ref. 33734], Huang et al. 2014:112 [ref. 33161], Chen et al. 2014:132 [ref. 33159], Fricke et al. 2014:171 [ref. 33932], Larson & Hammer 2021:61 [ref. 38276], Parenti 2021:349 [ref. 38603], Jamandre 2023:169 [ref. 40455]). Current status: Valid as Pseudogobius poicilosoma (Bleeker 1849). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Indonesia east to Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan and southern Japan. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.