serperaster, Apocryptes Richardson [J.] 1846:206 [Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 15th meeting [1845]; ref. 3742] Macao. Syntypes: (2) BMNH 1965.8.12.51 [ex Cambridge Philosophical Inst.] (1). Type information: Whitehead 1970:217 [ref. 11606]. •Valid as Parapocryptes serperaster (Richardson 1846) -- (Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:300 [ref. 26639], Murdy 1989:24 [ref. 13628], Zheng 1989:359 [ref. 21202], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:957 [ref. 20764], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:492 [ref. 23876], Kottelat et al. 1993:148 [ref. 23448], Rainboth 1996:210 [ref. 22772], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:639 [ref. 25122], Larson & Murdy 2001:3602 [ref. 26293], Larson et al. 2008:139 [ref. 29532], Murdy 2011:104 [ref. 31728], Kottelat 2013:417 [ref. 32989], Murdy & Jaafar 2017:15 [ref. 35561], Taki et al. 2021:480 [ref. 39830]). Current status: Valid as Parapocryptes serperaster (Richardson 1846). Gobiidae: Oxudercinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific. Habitat: brackish, marine.