vulgare, Gobiosoma Klunzinger [C. B.] 1871:484 [Verhandlungen der K.-K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien v. 21; ref. 2622] Al-Qusair, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt, Red Sea. Syntypes: MCZ 3815 (6); SMNS 12138 [ex SMNS 1312c] (6) Massaua; ZIN 2644 (2); ZMB 8030 (2), 10502 (3). Type catalog: Fricke 1992:10-11 [ref. 20296], Fricke 2005:39 [ref. 29864]. •Valid as Lioteres vulgare (Klunzinger 1871) -- (Dor 1984:248 [ref. 29757]). •Valid as Hetereleotris vulgaris (Klunzinger 1871) -- (Hoese 1986:18 [ref. 5996], Goren & Dor 1994:65 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:338 [ref. 22896] as vulgare, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S119 [ref. 27377], Hoese & Larson 2005:15 [ref. 28571], Shibukawa 2010:90 [ref. 30808], Kovačić & Bogorodsky 2014:480 [ref. 33169], Kovačić et al. 2014:123 [ref. 33446], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[21] 259 [ref. 36492], Fricke et al. 2018:333 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:156 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:64 [ref. 37020], Kovačić et al. 2019:188 [ref. 36570], Kovačić et al. 2019:504 [ref. 36728], Zajonz et al. 2019:96 [ref. 36871], Kovačić 2020:77 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2021:41 [ref. 39014], Parenti 2021:186 [ref. 38603], Kovačić et al. 2022: 67 [ref. 39303], Larson 2022:109 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:18 [ref. 40247], Kovačić et al. 2023:132 [ref. 40094]). Current status: Valid as Hetereleotris vulgaris (Klunzinger 1871). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; western Indian Ocean: East Africa (Mozambique, Kenya), Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen) and Madagascar east to Pakistan. Eastern Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: marine.