Species that contain: Awaous and guamensis [ 3 ] records

crassilabris, Gobius Günther [A.] 1861:63 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 3; ref. 1964] Oualan [Kosrae], Caroline Islands, western Pacific; Aneiteum, Vanuatu, southwestern Pacific. Syntypes: (3) BMNH 1856.9.4.84, BMNH 1860.7.18.70 (1) •Synonym of Awaous guamensis (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Watson 1992:171 [ref. 20016], Mundy 2005:471 [ref. 28379]). Current status: Synonym of Awaous guamensis (Valenciennes 1837). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

guamensis, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:103 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Guam, Mariana Islands, western Pacific. Syntypes: MNHN A-1363 (1), 5996 (1). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:33 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Awaous guamensis (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Watson 1992:171 [ref. 20016], Zink et al. 1996:331 [ref. 22396], Marquet & Mary 1999:36 [ref. 23933], Nishimoto & Fitzsimons 1999:815 [ref. 23947], Keith et al. 2000:398 [ref. 25159], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:61 [ref. 25191], Larson & Murdy 2001:3600 [ref. 26293], Keith et al. 2002:188 [ref. 26363], McDowall 2003:705 [ref. 26832], Myers & Donaldson 2003:642 [ref. 27495], Ataur Rahman 2003:329 [ref. 31338], Greenfield & Randall 2004:498 [ref. 28175], Benbow et al. 2004:129 [ref. 28266], Mundy 2005:471 [ref. 28379], Lindstrom et al. 2012:296 [ref. 32536], Fricke et al. 2014:159 [ref. 33932], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 14 [ref. 38321] misidentified, Al-Jufaili et al. 2021:[3] [ref. 38743], Keith et al. 2021:110 [ref. 38257]). Current status: Valid as Awaous guamensis (Valenciennes 1837). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Western Pacific, central Pacific: Mariana Islands, New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Fiji. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

stamineus, Gobius Eydoux [J. F. T.] & Souleyet [F. A.] 1850:179, Pl. 5 (fig. 5) [Voyage autour du monde; ref. 4501] Hawaiian Islands. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-1133. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:40 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Chonophorus stamineus (Eydoux & Souleyet 1850) -- (Maugé 1986:365 [ref. 6218] with author as Valenciennes). •Synonym of Awaous ocellaris (Broussonet 1782) -- (Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:278 [ref. 26639] with author as Valenciennes). •Synonym of Awaous guamensis (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Ataur Rahman 2003:329 [ref. 31338], Watson 1992:171 [ref. 20016], Mundy 2005:471 [ref. 28379]). •Valid as Awaous stamineus (Eydoux & Souleyet 1850) -- (Ataur Rahman 1989:304 [ref. 24860], Karmakar 2000:35 [ref. 25662], Lindstrom et al. 2012:296 [ref. 32536], Seth et al. 2023:13 [ref. 40589]). Current status: Valid as Awaous stamineus (Eydoux & Souleyet 1850). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Central Pacific: Hawaiian Islands. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.