petersii, Apocryptes (Gobiichthys) Klunzinger [C. B.] 1871:480 [Verhandlungen der K.-K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien v. 21; ref. 2622] Al-Qusair, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt, Red Sea. Syntypes: SMNS 1753 (1). Type catalog: Fricke 1992:10 [ref. 20296], Fricke 2005:39 [ref. 29864]. •Synonym of Oxyurichthys papuensis (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Goren 1979:49 [ref. 1852], Dor 1984:249 [ref. 29757], Maugé 1986:379 [ref. 6218]). •Valid as Oxyurichthys petersii (Klunzinger 1871) -- (Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:135 [ref. 26753] as petersi, Golani 2005:57 [ref. 37112] as petersi, Fricke et al. 2007:106 [ref. 29533] as petersi, Kovačić & Patzner 2011:187 [ref. 31737] as petersi, Bogorodsky et al. 2014:429 [ref. 33460], Pezold & Larson 2015:6, 65 [ref. 33894], DiBattista et al. 2015:20 [ref. 35706] as petersi, Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[6] 244 [ref. 36492], Golani & Fricke 2018:158 [ref. 36273], Bariche & Fricke 2020:128 [ref. 37515], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 14 [ref. 38321] misidentified, Kovačić 2020:78 [ref. 37932], Golani 2021:76 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:42 [ref. 39014], Kovačić et al. 2022: 71 [ref. 39303], Larson 2022:168 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:2 [ref. 40247], Kovačić et al. 2023:132 [ref. 40094] as petersi). Current status: Valid as Oxyurichthys petersii (Klunzinger 1871). Gobiidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Red Sea; northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden. Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: brackish, marine.