Cryptocentrus Valenciennes [A.] (ex Ehrenberg) in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:111 Masc. Gobius cryptocentrus Valenciennes 1837. First appeared as name in synonymy of Gobius, but made available from Valenciennes 1837 by subsequent use, e.g. Bleeker 1874:322 [ref. 437], 1876:142 [ref. 449]. Type established by Bleeker. •Valid as Cryptocentrus Valenciennes 1837 -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:362 [ref. 7348], Polunin & Lubbock 1977:76 [ref. 3540], Yanagisawa 1978:271 [ref. 7028], Goren 1979:28 [ref. 1852], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:257 [ref. 6441], Hoese 1986:786 [ref. 5670], Birdsong et al. 1988:192 [ref. 7303], Kottelat 1989:18 [ref. 13605], Larson & Murdy 2001:3588 [ref. 26293], Hoese & Larson 2004:167 [ref. 28074], Hoese & Larson 2006:1636 [ref. 29097], Hoese et al. 2011:163 [ref. 31450], Allen & Randall 2011:554 [ref. 31615], Shibukawa et al. 2012:54 [ref. 32036], Kottelat 2013:405 [ref. 32989], Allen 2015:67 [ref. 33923], Pinault et al. 2015:237 [ref. 34021], Fricke et al. 2018:328 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:150 [ref. 36273], Greenfield & Allen 2018:28 [ref. 35950], Fricke et al. 2019:276 [ref. 36673], Hoese 2019:23 [ref. 36472], Goren & Stern 2021:1 [ref. 38671], Parenti 2021:124 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Cryptocentrus Valenciennes 1837. Gobiidae: Gobiinae.