caeruleomaculatus, Mars Herre [A. W. C. T.] 1933:22 [Copeia 1933 (no. 1); ref. 2106] Tide flats at Jolo, Sulu Islands, Philippines. Holotype: CAS-SU 25502. Paratypes: CAS-SU 16959 (5). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:147 [ref. 2676] as coeruleo-maculatus, Böhlke 1953:115 [ref. 12291]. Originally as caeruleo-maculatus. •Synonym of Cryptocentrus octofasciatus Regan 1908 -- (Allen 1997:216 [ref. 23977] as octafasciatus). •Valid as Cryptocentrus caeruleomaculatus (Herre 1933) -- (Yanagisawa 1978:278 [ref. 7028], Allen & Swainston 1988:134 [ref. 25477], Randall et al. 1997:530 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:239 [ref. 23965], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:636 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1226 [ref. 25182], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3596 [ref. 26293], Sakai et al. 2001:110 [ref. 25693], Nakabo 2002:1226 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:57 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:642 [ref. 27495], Hoese & Larson 2004:168 [ref. 28074], Randall et al. 2005:128 [ref. 28745], Hoese & Larson 2006:1637 [ref. 29097], Larson et al. 2008:147 [ref. 29532], Shibukawa 2009:267 [ref. 30449], Motomura et al. 2010:208 [ref. 31256], Allen & Randall 2011:559 [ref. 31615], Allen & Erdmann 2012:869 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:194 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:161 [ref. 33932], Allen 2015:72 [ref. 33923], Koeda et al. 2016:90 [ref. 35333], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:258 [ref. 36460], Hoese 2019:31 [ref. 36472], Parenti 2021:125 [ref. 38603], Fujiwara et al. 2022:91 [ref. 39094], Larson 2022:71 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Valid as Cryptocentrus caeruleomaculatus (Herre 1933). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Andaman Sea east to Solomon Islands, north to Amami Islands (southern Japan), south to Western Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.