Aphia Risso [A.] 1827:287 Fem. Aphia meridionalis Risso 1827 (= Atherina minuta Risso 1810). Type by monotypy. Aphya Agassiz 1846:28 [ref. 64] is an unjustified emendation. Originally thought to be an atherinid. •Valid as Aphia Risso 1827 -- (Miller 1973:489 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1023 [ref. 13677], Maugé 1986:360 [ref. 6218], Birdsong et al. 1988:202 [ref. 7303], Vasil'eva 2003:S42 [ref. 28444], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:62 [ref. 36649], Thacker 2011:130 [ref. 31731], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:185 [ref. 31737], Parin et al. 2015:476 [ref. 33547], Parenti 2021:93 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Aphia Risso 1827. Gobiidae: Gobiinae.