bikolana, Vaimosa Herre [A. W. C. T.] 1927:151, Pl. 11 (fig. 2) [Monographs, Bureau of Science Manila Monogr. 23; ref. 2104] Creek at barrio Puru, Legaspi, Albay Province, Philippines. Syntypes: BSMP 13232 (6) destroyed, seen by Koumans. Type catalog: Koumans 1940:185 [ref. 2676]. •Valid as Redigobius bikolanus (Herre 1927) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:269 [ref. 6441], Hoese 1986:803 [ref. 5670], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:578 [ref. 25598], Allen & Coates 1990:111 [ref. 25561], Allen 1991:192 [ref. 21090], Kottelat et al. 1993:151 [ref. 23448], Rainboth 1996:207 [ref. 22772], Larson & Williams 1997:370 [ref. 23967], Takahashi et al. 1997:48 [ref. 24971], Mizuno et al. 1999:12 [ref. 25311], Johnson 1999:749 [ref. 25471] as cf bikolanus, Pusey et al. 2000:72 [ref. 24466], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:640 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1241 [ref. 25182], Buden et al. 2001:7 [ref. 25496], Larson 2001:205 [ref. 25522], Larson & Murdy 2001:3601 [ref. 26293], Sakai et al. 2001:116 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:44 [ref. 25847], Allen et al. 2002:283 [ref. 25930], Nakabo 2002:1241 [ref. 26193], Myers & Donaldson 2003:642 [ref. 27495], Tan & Lim 2004:111 [ref. 27716], Larson & Pidgeon 2004:197 [ref. 28107] as cf. bikolanus, Hoese & Larson 2006:1681 [ref. 29097], Allen et al. 2008:174 [ref. 30265], Larson 2010:134 [ref. 30783], Motomura et al. 2010:218 [ref. 31256], Schliewen 2011:212 [ref. 31738], Matsui et al. 2014:8 [ref. 33344], Kottelat 2013:423 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:171 [ref. 33932], Miesen et al. 2016:94 [ref. 34492], Labatos 2017:5 [ref. 36239], Pusey et al. 2017:77 [ref. 35250], Sulaiman et al. 2018:46 [ref. 35802], Fricke et al. 2018:339 [ref. 35805], Fricke et al. 2019:288 [ref. 36673], Ng et al. 2019:533 [ref. 36606], Sonoyama et al. 2020:107 [ref. 37637], Keith et al. 2021:126 [ref. 38257], Parenti 2021:350 [ref. 38603], Taki et al. 2021:445 [ref. 39830], Larson 2022:170 [ref. 39971], Sreeraj & Sen 2022:2 [ref. 39413], Jamandre 2023:169 [ref. 40455], Furuhashi et al. 2024:17 [ref. 41415]). Current status: Valid as Redigobius bikolanus (Herre 1927). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes (Mauritius) east to Vietnam and the Philippines, New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, north to central Japan, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.