goebelii, Gobius Kessler [K. F.] 1874:249 [59] [Trudy St.-Peterburgskogo Obscestva Estestvoispytatelej = Travaux de la Société des Naturalistes de St. Pétersbourg. v. 5; ref. 18397] Baku, Azerbaijan. Syntypes: (3) NMW 33910 (1), ZIN 2229-30 (1, 1). •Synonym of Neogobius ratan (Nordmann 1840), but a valid subspecies goebelii -- (Berg 1949:1087 [ref. 20662], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1064 [ref. 13677] as gobebeli, Coad 1995:31 [ref. 23608], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:756 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:142 [ref. 23591], Pinchuk et al. 2003:357 [ref. 27348], Vasil'eva et al. 2015:196 [ref. 33862]). •Synonym of Ponticola ratan (Nordmann 1840) -- (Neilson & Stepien 2009:97 [ref. 30487]). •Valid as Ponticola goebelii (Kessler 1874) -- (Esmaeili et al. 2010:378 [ref. 33391], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:899 [ref. 34062], Esmaeili et al. 2017:84 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:66 [ref. 36089], Parenti 2021:74 [ref. 38603], Zarei et al. 2022:178 [ref. 39576], Çiçek et al. 2024:311 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Ponticola goebelii (Kessler 1874). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eurasia: Caspian Sea basin. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.