Species that contain: Apocryptodon and bleekeri [ 1 ] records

bleekeri, Apocryptes Day [F.] 1876:300, Pl. 64 (fig. 3) [The fishes of India Part 2; ref. 1081] Madras, India. Syntypes and/or Day specimens: AMS B.7501 (1, syntype) Madras; BMNH 1889.2.1.3460-61 (2), 1889.2.1.4288-89 (2, half skins); ZSI 103 (1, lost), 134 (1, lost), 2887 (1, lost). Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:161 [ref. 23762], Ferraris et al. 2000:295 [ref. 25110]. Reasons for loss of ZSI type specimens during WWII see Chopra 1947:349-350 [ref. 33077]. •Synonym of Apocryptodon madurensis (Bleeker 1849) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:408 [ref. 7348], Murdy 1989:9 [ref. 13628], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:952 [ref. 20764], Kottelat 2013:399 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Apocryptodon madurensis (Bleeker 1849). Gobiidae: Oxudercinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.