taranetzi, Chaenogobius Pinchuk [V. I.] 1978:13 [10], Fig. 3B [Voprosy Ikhtiologii v. 18 (no. 1) (art. 108); ref. 8675] Amur Bay, mouth of Kedrovka River, Russia. Holotype: ZIN 42342. Additional material or paratypes: ZIN 16955, 16967, 17455, 17464-65, 17467, 17479, 17480-82, 25497, 38386, 42327-28, 42329, 42330-33, 42334-36. On p. 10 of English translation. •Valid as Chaenogobius taranetzi Pinchuk 1978 -- (Reshetnikov et al. 1997:754 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:133 [ref. 23591], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:13 [ref. 24670]). •Valid as Gymnogobius taranetzi (Pinchuk 1978) -- (Bogutskaya et al. 2001:47 [ref. 26178], Stevenson 2002:274 [ref. 26489], Vasil'eva 2003:S47 [ref. 28444], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:223 [ref. 28183], Zhao et al. 2007:454 [ref. 29515], Bogutskaya et al. 2008:353 [ref. 30085], Parin et al. 2014:488 [ref. 33547], Zhang et al. 2016:200 [ref. 34477], Ito et al. 2021:[9] [ref. 38897]). Current status: Valid as Gymnogobius taranetzi (Pinchuk 1978). Gobiidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Sea of Japan (Korea, Japan, Russia and ?China). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.