Species that contain: Gnatholepis and anjerensis [ 7 ] records

anjerensis, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1851:251, Pl. 1 (fig. 11) [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 1 (no. 3); ref. 16890] Boenakeng Island, off Ujung Padang, Sulawesi, Indonesia [Makassar Strait, western Pacific], depth 0.5 meters. Neotype: BPBM 26651. Neotype designated by Randall & Greenfield 2001:3 [ref. 25675]. •Valid as Gnatholepis anjerensis (Bleeker 1851) -- (Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:251 [ref. 6441], Randall & Goren 1993:13 [ref. 21131], Goren & Dor 1994:64 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:336 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:214 [ref. 23922], Myers 1999:255 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:512 [ref. 24106], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:637 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1212 [ref. 25182], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3601 [ref. 26293], Randall & Greenfield 2001:3 [ref. 25675], Nakabo 2002:1212 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:58 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S118 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:642 [ref. 27495] dated 1850, Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:184 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:27 [ref. 27624], Heemstra et al. 2004:3329 [ref. 27945], Greenfield & Randall 2004:524 [ref. 28175], Randall 2005:536 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:475 [ref. 28379], Hoese & Larson 2006:1654 [ref. 29097], Randall & Greenfield 2007:304 [ref. 29292], Randall 2007:405 [ref. 30952], Larson et al. 2008:141 [ref. 29532], Fricke et al. 2009:101 [ref. 30213], Shibukawa 2009:276 [ref. 30449], Suzuki & Randall 2009:6 [ref. 30324], Hoese & Larson 2010:374 [ref. 31045], Motomura et al. 2010:213 [ref. 31256], Larson & Buckle 2012:15 [ref. 32272], Allen & Erdmann 2012:974 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:270 [ref. 32706], Kottelat 2013:409 [ref. 32989], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:8 [ref. 33988], Miesen et al. 2016:93 [ref. 34492], Fricke et al. 2018:332 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:154 [ref. 36273], Arndt & Fricke 2019:16 [ref. 36883], Eagderi et al. 2019:63 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:285 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:95 [ref. 36871], Akaike et al. 2021:28 [ref. 38809], Koreeda et al. 2022:30 [ref. 39102], Larson 2022:160 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:2 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Gnatholepis anjerensis (Bleeker 1851). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), Marquesas Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia), north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to Rowley Shoals (Western Australia), New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island (Australia) and Rapa (French Polynesia). IUCN (2019): Least concern. Habitat: brackish, marine.

capistratus, Gobius Peters [W. (C. H.)] 1855:443 [Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1855; ref. 3449] Ibo, Mozambique, 12°S. Syntypes: ZMB 2103 (2). Also described as new in Peters 1855:251 [ref. 13448]. •Synonym of Acentrogobius cauerensis (Bleeker 1853) = Gnatholepis anjerensis (Bleeker 185) -- (Dor 1984:237 and footnote [ref. 29757]). •Synonym of Gnatholepis cauerensis (Bleeker 1853) -- (Maugé 1986:369 [ref. 6218]). •Synonym of Gnatholepis anjerensis (Bleeker 1851) -- (Randall & Greenfield 2001:3 [ref. 25675], Greenfield & Randall 2004:524 [ref. 28175], Randall & Greenfield 2007:304 [ref. 29292], Larson & Buckle 2012:5, 22 [ref. 32272], Kottelat 2013:409 [ref. 32989], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:2 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Synonym of Gnatholepis anjerensis (Bleeker 1851). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: marine.

cauerensis, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1853:269 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 4 (no. 2); ref. 12580] Cauer, a village on the southwestern coast of Sumatra, 4°44'S, 103°15'E [Bengkulu, Indonesia, eastern Indian Ocean]. Holotype (unique): RMNH 4523 (1 of 2). •Valid as Acentrogobius cauerensis (Bleeker 1853) -- (Goren 1979:18 [ref. 1852]). •Synonym of Gnatholepis anjerensis (Bleeker 1851) -- (Randall 1995:336 [ref. 22896]). •Valid as Gnatholepis cauerensis (Bleeker 1853) [sometimes as subspecies cauerensis] -- (Randall & Greenfield 2001:6 [ref. 25675], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S118 [ref. 27377], Lobel & Lobel 2004:76 [ref. 27576], Heemstra et al. 2004:3329 [ref. 27945], Greenfield & Randall 2004:526 [ref. 28175], Randall 2005:536 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Larson 2006:1654 [ref. 29097], Randall & Greenfield 2007:308 [ref. 29292], Randall 2007:405 [ref. 30952], Larson et al. 2008:141 [ref. 29532], Randall 2009:181 [ref. 30557], Motomura et al. 2010:213 [ref. 31256], Larson & Buckle 2012:29 [ref. 32272], Koeda et al. 2016:16 [ref. 35354]). •Valid as Gnatholepis cauerensis (Bleeker 1853) -- (Goren 1981:98 [ref. 8597], Maugé 1986:369 [ref. 6218], Myers 1999:255 [ref. 23965], Randall 1999:26 [ref. 25829], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:637 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:411 [ref. 25191], Randall & Earle 2000:19 [ref. 25806], Allen 2000:120 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3601 [ref. 26293], Allen & Adrim 2003:58 [ref. 26830], Randall et al. 2004:27 [ref. 27624], Rocha et al. 2005:3921 [ref. 29293] with comments, Fricke et al. 2009:101 [ref. 30213], Allen & Erdmann 2012:975 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:270 [ref. 32706], Smith-Vanis & Jelks 2014:78 [ref. 33341], Fricke et al. 2014:167 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:8 [ref. 33988], Motomura et al. 2015:30 [ref. 34709], Prokofiev 2016:646 [ref. 35020] as aff. cauerensis, Koeda et al. 2016:92 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2018:332 [ref. 35805], Arndt & Fricke 2019:16 [ref. 36883], Brown et al. 2019:163 [ref. 36444], Fricke et al. 2019:285 [ref. 36673], Hoschke et al. 2019:160 [ref. 36626], Zajonz et al. 2019:95 [ref. 36871] as cf. cauerensis, Larson 2022:160 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Valid as Gnatholepis cauerensis (Bleeker 1853). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Amirantes (Seychelles), Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Wake Atoll, Marshal Islands, Line Islands (Kiribati) and Gambier Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Rottnest Island (Western Australia), Sydney (New South Wales, Australia), Lord Howe Island (Australia), New Caledonia, Tonga, and Pitcairn Island; southern central Atlantic: Saint Helena. Atlantic Ocean immigrant. Habitat: brackish, marine.

corlettei, Gnatholepis Herre [A. W. C. T.] 1935:418 [Field Museum of Natural History, Publications, Zoölogical Series v. 18 (no. 12); ref. 2109] Bushman Bay, Malekula Island, Vanuatu. Holotype: FMNH 17367. Paratypes: (11) FMNH 17368-72 (1, 1, 0, 1, 0); CAS-SU 24435 (4); USNM 117320-21 [ex FMNH] (1, 1). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:138 [ref. 2676], Böhlke 1953:112 [ref. 12291], Ibarra & Stewart 1987:40 [ref. 12367]. Kottelat (2013) references inland records. •Synonym of Gnatholepis anjerensis (Bleeker 1851) -- (Randall & Greenfield 2001:3 [ref. 25675], Greenfield & Randall 2004:524 [ref. 28175], Randall & Greenfield 2007:304 [ref. 29292], Kottelat 2013:409 [ref. 32989]). •Synonym of Gnatholepis ophthalmotaenia (Bleeker 1854) -- (Larson & Buckle 2012:5 [ref. 32272]). Current status: Synonym of Gnatholepis ophthalmotaenia (Bleeker 1854). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: marine.

deltoides, Gobius Seale [A.] 1901:125 [Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History v. 1 (no. 3); ref. 14357] Agaña, Guam, Mariana Islands, western Pacific. Syntypes: ANSP 84134 [ex BPBM 267] (10); BPBM 267 (? now 4); USNM 109399 (1). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:156-157 [ref. 2676], Böhlke 1984:105 [ref. 13621]. •Valid as Gnatholepis deltoides (Seale 1901) -- (Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:252 [ref. 6441], Nakabo 2000:1212 [ref. 25182], Larson & Murdy 2001:3601 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1212 [ref. 26193]). •Synonym of Gnatholepis anjerensis (Bleeker 1851) -- (Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:637 [ref. 25122], Randall & Greenfield 2001:3 [ref. 25675], Myers & Donaldson 2003:642 [ref. 27495], Greenfield & Randall 2004:524 [ref. 28175], Randall 2005:536 [ref. 28239], Randall & Greenfield 2007:304 [ref. 29292], Randall 2007:405 [ref. 30952], Larson & Buckle 2012:5, 22 [ref. 32272] Kottelat 2013:409 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Gnatholepis anjerensis (Bleeker 1851). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

knighti, Gnatholepis Jordan [D. S.] & Evermann [B. W.] 1903:204 [Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission v. 22 (1902); ref. 2450] Hilo, Hawaii Island, Hawaiian Islands. Holotype: USNM 50653. Paratypes: (11) AMNH 2294 (1); ANSP 24222 (1, missing); BPBM 1699 (1); CAS orig. 1497 (1, missing); 14982 [ex IU 9812] (1), 43092 [ex IU 10477] (1); FMNH 3969 (1); MCZ 28902 (1); CAS-SU 7468 (2, missing); ?USNM 144094 [incl. USFC 2719] (1 of 5). •Synonym of Gnatholepis anjerensis (Bleeker 1851) -- (Randall & Greenfield 2001:3 [ref. 25675], Greenfield & Randall 2004:524 [ref. 28175], Randall 2005:536 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:475 [ref. 28379], Randall & Greenfield 2007:304 [ref. 29292], Randall 2007:405 [ref. 30952]). •Valid as Gnatholepis knighti Jordad & Evermann 1903 -- (Larson & Buckle 2012:5, 22 [ref. 32272]). Current status: Valid as Gnatholepis knighti Jordan & Evermann 1903. Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Hawaiian Islands. Habitat: marine.

ophthalmotaenia, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1854:46 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 7 (no. 1); ref. 16938] Nova Selma [Home Island, Cocos-Keeling Islands, eastern Indian Ocean]. Syntypes: RMNH 4526 (4 of 10). •Synonym of Gnatholepis cauerensis (Bleeker 1853) -- (Maugé 1986:369 [ref. 6218]). •Synonym of Gnatholepis anjerensis (Bleeker 1851) -- (Randall & Greenfield 2001:3 [ref. 25675], Greenfield & Randall 2004:524 [ref. 28175], Randall & Greenfield 2007:304 [ref. 29292]). •Valid as Gnatholepis ophthalmotaenia (Bleeker 1854) -- (Allen & Adrim 2003:58 [ref. 26830], Larson & Buckle 2012:43 [ref. 32272], Kottelat 2013:409 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:167 [ref. 33932], Akaike et al. 2021:28 [ref. 38809]). Current status: Valid as Gnatholepis ophthalmotaenia (Bleeker 1854). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Cocos-Keeling Islands east to Philippines and Papua New Guinea, north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Lapan), south to Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Habitat: marine.