Species that contain: Favonigobius and melanobranchus [ 2 ] records

chaimi, Silhouettea Goren [M.] 1978:197, Fig. 4 [Senckenbergiana Biologica v. 59 (nos 3/4); ref. 1851] Nabek, Sinai, Egypt, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Holotype: HUJ 10064 [ex HUJ 7579b]. Paratypes: HUJ 11222 [ex 7579c] (orig. 3, now 2), 7581 (1); SMF 13821 (1), 13837 (1). Type catalog: Golani 2006:35 [ref. 28840]. •Valid as Acentrogobius chaimi Goren 1978 -- (Miller 1988:269 [ref. 26483]). •Valid as Silhouettea chaimi Goren 1978 -- (Goren 1979:53 [ref. 1852], Dor 1984:250 [ref. 29757], Goren & Dor 1994:66 [ref. 25356]). •Synonym of Papillogobius melanobranchus (Fowler 1934) -- (Kovačić & Bogorodsky 2013:370 [ref. 32441]). •Synonym of Favonigobius melanobranchus (Fowler 1934) -- (Parenti 2021:155 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:86 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Favonigobius melanobranchus (Fowler 1934). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

melanobranchus, Rhinogobius Fowler [H. W.] 1934:82, Figs. 24-25 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 86; ref. 1417] Den Pasar, southern Bali, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): ANSP 56333. Type catalog: Koumans 1940:135 [ref. 2676] but as Rhinogobius atribranchiostegus in main heading, Böhlke 1984:108 [ref. 13621]. •Valid as Papillogobius melanobranchus (Fowler 1934) -- (Kovačić & Glolani 2008:417 [ref. 33214], Gill & Miller 1990:522 [ref. 16711], Randall et al. 1994:248 [ref. 21645], Randall 1995:340 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:213 [ref. 23922], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Larson et al. 2008:148 [ref. 29532], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:187 [ref. 31737], Bogorodsky et al. 2011:218 [ref. 31666], Kovačić & Bogorodsky 2013:370 [ref. 32441], Kottelat 2013:349 [ref. 32989], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[21] 259 [ref. 36492], Kovačić 2020:78 [ref. 37932], Golani 2021:76 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:42 [ref. 39014], Kovačić et al. 2022: 72 [ref. 39303], Kovačić et al. 2023:132 [ref. 40094], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:20 [ref. 40247]). •Valid as Favonigobius melanobranchus (Fowler 1934) -- (Hoese 1986:788 [ref. 5670], Larson & Williams 1997:368 [ref. 23967], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:637 [ref. 25122], Larson & Murdy 2001:3597 [ref. 26293], Allen & Adrim 2003:58 [ref. 26830], Hoese & Larson 2006:1650 [ref. 29097], Shibukawa 2009:274 [ref. 30449], Allen & Erdmann 2012:969 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:197 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:164 [ref. 33932], Sadeghi et al. 2017:643 [ref. 35641], Golani & Fricke 2018:153 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:63 [ref. 37020], Parenti 2021:154 [ref. 38603], Esmaeili et al. 2022:483 [ref. 39253], Larson 2022:86 [ref. 39971], Momose 2022:10 [ref. 39316], Esmaeili & Hamidan 2023:213 [ref. 40377], Çiçek et al. 2024:303 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Favonigobius melanobranchus (Fowler 1934). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf and Seychelles east to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, north to Amami Islands (southern Japan), south to northern Australia. Eastern Mediterrranean Sea immigrant. IUCN (1996): Near Threatened. Habitat: marine.