Species that contain: Gobius and gobius [ 787 ] records

abei, Ctenogobius Jordan [D. S.] & Snyder [J. O.] 1901:55, Fig. 5 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 24 (no. 1244); ref. 2509] Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, Inland Sea. Holotype: CAS-SU 6447. Paratypes: USNM 49892 (1). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:141 [ref. 2676], Böhlke 1953:109-110 [ref. 12291]. •Valid as Gobius abei (Jordan & Snyder 1901) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:354 [ref. 7348]). •Valid as Mugilogobius abei (Jordan & Snyder 1901) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:268 [ref. 6441], Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:271 [ref. 26639], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:576 [ref. 25598], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:456 [ref. 23876], Zhu 1995:179 [ref. 25213], Cheng & Zhou 1997:373 [ref. 26385], Kim 1997:466 [ref. 24032], Takahashi et al. 1997:48 [ref. 24971], Sato et al. 1998:42 [ref. 24972], Mizuno et al. 1999:12 [ref. 25311], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:638 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1241 [ref. 25182], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:239 [ref. 25480], Kottelat 2001:60 [ref. 25482], Larson 2001:80 [ref. 25522], Sakai et al. 2001:113 [ref. 25693], Kim & Park 2002:390 [ref. 25913], Nakabo 2002:1241 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:399, 662 [ref. 26218], Matsui et al. 2014:7 [ref. 33344], Kottelat 2013:413 [ref. 32989], Larson et al. 2014:721 [ref. 33557], Huang et al. 2016:14 [ref. 34500], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:262 [ref. 36460], Kim et al. 2020:169 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:106 [ref. 37637], Thu & Thao 2023:642 [ref. 40499], Endruweit 2024:83 [ref. 41040]). Current status: Valid as Mugilogobius abei (Jordan & Snyder 1901). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: northern Vietnam, southern China and Taiwan to Korea and southern Japan. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

acutipennis, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:80 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Malabar, India. Syntypes: MNHN A-1356 (2). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:25 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Oligolepis acutipennis (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:253 [ref. 6441], Maugé 1986:378 [ref. 6218], Hoese 1986:796 [ref. 5670], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:570 [ref. 25598], Allen 1991:189 [ref. 21090], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:939 [ref. 20764], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:475 [ref. 23876], Rema Devi 1993:178 [ref. 24020], Indra 1993:190 [ref. 24009], Kottelat et al. 1993:147 [ref. 23448], Rainboth 1996:205 [ref. 22772], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:638 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1240 [ref. 25182], Larson & Murdy 2001:3601 [ref. 26293], Sakai et al. 2001:113 [ref. 25693], Nakabo 2002:1240 [ref. 26193], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S118 [ref. 27377], Pezold 2004:273 [ref. 27685], Seegers et al. 2003:46 [ref. 28087], Larson et al. 2008:142 [ref. 29532], Allen et al. 2008:173 [ref. 30265], Kottelat 2013:415 [ref. 32989], Prokofiev 2016:648 [ref. 35020], Koeda et al. 2016:93 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2018:335 [ref. 35805], Suresh et al. 2018:285 [ref. 36495], Eagderi et al. 2019:65 [ref. 37020], Larson 2022:162 [ref. 39971], Jamandre 2023:168 [ref. 40455], Thu & Thao 2023:642 [ref. 40499], Endruweit 2024:85 [ref. 41040]). Current status: Valid as Oligolepis acutipennis (Valenciennes 1837). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, East Africa, Persian Gulf and Madagascar east to Palau and Vanuatu, north to southern Japan. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

adriaticus, Pomatoschistus pictus Miller [P. J.] 1973:72, Pl. 1 (fig. 2) [Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale `Giacomo Doria' v. 79 (for 1 Sept 1972); ref. 7519] Split, Croatia, Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea). Syntypes: NMW 28663-76 (1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1); coll. of Hans Bath (9). Replacement name for Pomatoschistus affinis Kolombatovic 1891, preoccupied by Gobius affinis Eichwald 1831. •Synonym of Pomatoschistus pictus (Malm 1865), but a valid subspecies as described -- (Miller 1973:59 [ref. 7519], Miller 1973:510 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1076 [ref. 13677], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:136 [ref. 26753] dated to 1972). •Synonym of Pomatoschistus pictus (Malm 1865) -- (Parin et al. 2014:496 [ref. 33547]). •Valid as Pomatoschistus adriaticus Miller 1973 -- (Fricke et al. 2007:106 [ref. 29533], Öztürk & Engin 2019:[3] [ref. 36554], Artüz & Fricke 2019:559 [ref. 36612], Kovačić 2020:78 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:26 [ref. 37519], Kovačić et al. 2021:42 [ref. 39014], Kovačić et al. 2022: 73 [ref. 39303]). Replacement Name. Current status: Valid as Pomatoschistus adriaticus Miller 1973. Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea. Habitat: brackish, marine.

aegyptius, Gobius lesueuri Chabanaud [P.] 1933:11, Fig. 7 [Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique (Monaco) No. 627; ref. 16475] Lake Timsah, Suez Canal. Holotype (unique): MNHN 1967-0955. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:35 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Silhouettea aegyptia (Chabanaud 1933) -- (Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1080 [ref. 13677], Miller 1988:253 [ref. 26483], Goren & Dor 1994:66 [ref. 25356], Golani 1998:97 [ref. 27567] as Silhouetta, Randall 2008:297 [ref. 29721], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:232 [ref. 28183], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[7] 245 [ref. 36492], Golani & Fricke 2018:160 [ref. 36273], Kovačić 2020:78 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:55 [ref. 37377], Golani 2021:77 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:43 [ref. 39014], Kovačić et al. 2022: 84 [ref. 39303], Larson 2022:133 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:23 [ref. 40247], Kovačić et al. 2023:132 [ref. 40094]). Current status: Valid as Silhouettea aegyptia (Chabanaud 1933). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Northern Red Sea endemic; Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: marine.

aeneofuscus, Gobius Peters [W. (C. H.)] 1852:681 [Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1852; ref. 18539] Sena, Zambezi River, Mozambique. Syntypes and possible syntypes: BMNH 1861.5.2.75 (1); ZMB 2105-07 (2, 3, 1), 17429 (1). Also in Peters 1868:18, Pl. 3 (fig. 1) [ref. 3440]. •Valid as Chonophorus aeneofuscus (Peters 1852) -- (Maugé 1986:363 [ref. 6218]). •Valid as Awaous aeneofuscus (Peters 1852) -- (Hoese 1986:779 [ref. 5670], Skelton 1993:363 [ref. 24071], Reinthal & Stiassny 1997:354 [ref. 22780], Stiassny & Harrison 2000:151 [ref. 25252], Skelton 2001:363 [ref. 27406], Seegers et al. 2003:46 [ref. 28087], Heemstra et al. 2004:3328 [ref. 27945], Marshall 2011:264 [ref. 31755], Fricke et al. 2018:325 [ref. 35805], Esmaeili et al. 2019:[6] [ref. 37285], Zajonz et al. 2019:95 [ref. 36871] as cf. aeneofuscus, Al-Jufaili et al. 2021:[3] [ref. 38743], Fermon et al. 2022:222 [ref. 39448] with question, Larson 2022:157 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Valid as Awaous aeneofuscus (Peters 1852). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Madagascar and southern Iran. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

aeolosoma, Gobius Ogilby [J. D.] 1889:61 [Memoirs of the Australian Museum, Sydney No. 2 (art. no. 3); ref. 18489] Lord Howe Island. Syntypes: AMS I.1488 (1), I.1849 (1). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:161 [ref. 2676]. •Valid as Bathygobius aeolosoma (Ogilby 1889) -- (Francis 1993:167 [ref. 25479], Parenti 2021:98 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Bathygobius aeolosoma (Ogilby 1889). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southwestern Pacific: Lord Howe Island (Australia) endemic. Habitat: marine.

affinis, Buenia Iljin [B. S.] 1930:51, Figs. 33-34 [Trabajos, Instituto Espanol de Oceanografía v. 2; ref. 2297] No type locality stated [Mediterranean Sea]. Based on Art. 70.3 and Art. 11.10 of the Code, Miller 1973:55 [ref. 7519] suggests that Iljin established a new nominal species as above in establishing the type species of Buenia (misidentified type species, not Gobius affinis Kolombatovic 1881). There is no evidence that this was a deliberate use of a misidentification (see Art. 11.5), so Buenia affinis was not established. The Code required that the problem be submitted to the ICZN to establish the type species, and that was not done. We assume that there is a valid species, but its name and authorship is not yet clarified, but it can be called Buenia affinis Iljin 1930 until properly established. •Treated as valid under this authorship -- (Miller 1973:491 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1026 [ref. 13677], Costa et al. 1996:15 [ref. 23506], Kovačić & Patzner 2009:175 [ref. 30510], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:62 [ref. 36649], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:185 [ref. 31737], Kovačić et al. 2012:436 [ref. 32861], Engin et al. 2014:[1] 368 [ref. 36625], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2839 [ref. 34618], Kovačić et al. 2017:459 [ref. 35242], Kovačić et al. 2018:269 , 382 [ref. 35846], Carneiro et al. 2019:178 [ref. 37250], Iglésias et al. 2020:298 [ref. 37987], Kovačić 2020:76 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:23 [ref. 37519], Kovačić et al. 2021:38 [ref. 39014], Kovačić et al. 2022: 43 [ref. 39303], Renoult et al. 2023:30 [ref. 40491]). Current status: Valid as Buenia affinis Iljin 1930. Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; eastern Atlantic: Madeira, Canary Islands. Habitat: marine.

affinis, Gobius Eichwald [C. E. von] 1831:75 [Zoologia specialis quam expositis animalibus tum vivis Pars posterior [3]; ref. 5562] Balkhan Bay, Caspian Sea. No types known. Also appeared as new in Eichward 1838:104 [ref. 34622]. •Synonym of Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas 1814), but a valid subspecies affinis Eichwald 1831 -- (Berg 1949:1085 [ref. 20662], Mitrofanov & Dukravec 1989:276 [ref. 37748]). •Synonym of Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas 1814) -- (Miller 1973:503 [ref. 6888], Coad 1995:31 [ref. 23608], Kottelat 1997:179 [ref. 22952], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:756 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:141 [ref. 23591], Charlebois et al. 1998:1 [ref. 24500], Pinchuk et al. 2003:293 [ref. 27349], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:231 [ref. 28183], Neilson & Stepien 2009:96 [ref. 30487], Esmaeili et al. 2010:377 [ref. 33391], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:899 [ref. 34062], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:237 [ref. 37983], Parenti 2021:73 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas 1814). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

affinis, Gobius Kolombatović [G.] 1891:17 [Godicnje Izviesće C. K. Velike Realke u Splitu za Skolsku Godinu, Split v. 1890-1891; ref. 18430] Dalmatia, Croatia, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea. Syntypes: NMW 28663-76 (1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1), 28647-49 (3), 28658-62 (5). Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Gobius affinis Eichwald 1831, replaced by Pomatoschistus pictus adriaticus Miller 1973. •Synonym of Pomatoschistus adriaticus Miller 1973. 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Pomatoschistus adriaticus Miller 1973. Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: marine.

africana, Gobius caninus var. Playfair [R. L.] in Playfair & Günther 1867:71, Pl. 9 (fig. 1) [The fishes of Zanzibar; ref. 3490] Zanzibar, Tanzania; East Indian Archipelago; China. Holotype: BMNH 1867.3.7.503. •Synonym of Yongeichthys nebulosus (Forsskål 1775) -- (Maugé 1986:387 [ref. 6218], Larson 2022:155 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Yongeichthys nebulosus (Forsskål 1775). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

agulhensis, Gobius Barnard [K. H.] 1927:71 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 9) v. 20 (no. 115) (art. 8); ref. 193] False Bay, St. Sebastian Bay, Mossel Bay, and off East London, South Africa, southwestern Indian Ocean, depth 20-40 fathoms [37-73 meters]. Syntypes: BMNH 1927.12.6.50-51 [ex SAM] (2); SAM 17349-51 (4, 10, 1), 17453-54 (2, 2). Also appeared as new in Barnard 1927:821 [ref. 194]. •Valid as Caffrogobius agulhensis (Barnard 1927) -- (Hoese 1986:783 [ref. 5670], Randall 1995:795 [ref. 22357], Goren 1996:5 [ref. 24415], Schliewen 2011:214 [ref. 31738], Parenti 2021:109 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:58 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Valid as Caffrogobius agulhensis (Barnard 1927). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southwestern Indian Ocean: Western Cape, eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) north to southern Mozambique. Habitat: marine.

albimaculatus, Gobius Rüppell [W. P. E. S.] 1830:135 [Atlas zu der Reise im nördlichen Africa. Fische des Rothen Meeres; ref. 3843] Massawa, Eritrea, Red Sea. Lectotype: SMF 1733. Paralectotypes: ?BMNH 1860.11.9.66-67 (2), SMF 4844-45 (2). Lectotype established by Dor 1984:239 [ref. 29757] if not designated earlier. •Valid as Amblygobius albimaculatus (Rüppell 1830) -- (Goren 1979:24 [ref. 1852], Dor 1984:239 [ref. 29757], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:255 [ref. 6441], Maugé 1986:359 [ref. 6218], Hoese 1986:778 [ref. 5670], Goren & Dor 1994:62 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:327 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:213 [ref. 23922], Myers 1999:242 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:497 [ref. 24106], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:241 [ref. 25480], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S118 [ref. 27377], Heemstra et al. 2004:3328 [ref. 27945], Fricke et al. 2018:324 [ref. 35805], Arndt & Fricke 2019:15 [ref. 36883], Eagderi et al. 2019:58 [ref. 37020], Parenti 2021:88 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:40 [ref. 39965], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:4 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Amblygobius albimaculatus (Rüppell 1830). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Philippines (possibly Gambier Islands), north to southern Japan, south to Queensland (Australia). Habitat: brackish, marine.

albopunctatus, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:57 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Lectotype: MNHN 0000-1044. Paralectotypes: MNHN 0000-1400 (1), 0000-1401 (1), A-1342 (2), 1986-0607 [ex MNHN 0000-1400] (1), 1986-0614 [ex MNHN 0000-1044] (1), 1986-1062 [ex. MNHN 0000-1044] (1) Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:25 [ref. 19958]. Lectotype selected by Goren 1988:38 [ref. 6612]. •Synonym of Bathygobius fuscus (Rüppell 1830) -- (Dor 1984:240 [ref. 29757], Maugé 1986:361 [ref. 6218]). •Valid as Bathygobius albopunctatus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Hoese 1986:780 [ref. 5670], Goren 1988 [ref. 6612], Larson & Murdy 2001:3595 [ref. 26293]). •Synonym of Bathygobius coalitus (Bennett 1832) -- (Fricke 1999:500 [ref. 24106], Randall 2005:520 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:471 [ref. 28379], Fricke & Kulbicki 2006:349 [ref. 28867], Randall 2007:395 [ref. 30952], Kottelat 2013:401 [ref. 32989], Parenti 2021:99 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:49 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Bathygobius coalitus (Bennett 1832). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

albosignatus, Gobius Kessler [K. F.] 1874:230 [40] [Trudy St.-Peterburgskogo Obscestva Estestvoispytatelej = Travaux de la Société des Naturalistes de St. Pétersbourg. v. 5; ref. 18397] Crimea, Ukraine. Holotype (unique): ZIN 2104. •Synonym of Gobius paganellus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Miller 1973:487 [ref. 6888], Miller 1990:937 [ref. 19376], Vasil'eva 2003:S45 [ref. 28444], Parin et al. 2014:483 [ref. 33547], Parenti 2021:180 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Gobius paganellus Linnaeus 1758. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

albus, Gobius Parnell [R.] 1831-37:248, Pl. 29 [Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh v. 7 (art. 2) (for 1831-1837); ref. 18519] Firth of Forth, Scotland. No types known. Date uncertain, sometimes given as 1838. •Synonym of Aphia minuta (Risso 1810) -- (Miller 1973:489 [ref. 6888], Parin et al. 2015:476 [ref. 33547], Parenti 2021:93 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Aphia minuta (Risso 1810). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

albus, Gobius Gistel [J.] 1848:107, Pl. 18 (fig. 7) [Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs; ref. 1822] 1°Homonym. Gobiidae.

alcockii, Gobius Annandale [N.] 1906:201, Fig. 1 [Journal & Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (New Series) v. 2 (no. 5) (art. 27); ref. 15638] Port Canning and Calcutta, India. Syntypes: BMNH 1906.8.10.46 (1), ZMA 114487 (3). Non-types: RMNH 12063 (2). Type catalog: Nijssen et al. 1982:98 [ref. 19236]. •Valid as Brachygobius alcockii (Annandale 1906) -- (Miller 1989:380 [ref. 13540] as alcocki). •Synonym of Brachygobius nunus (Hamilton 1822) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:930 [ref. 20764], Larson 2001:52 [ref. 25522]). Current status: Synonym of Brachygobius nunus (Hamilton 1822). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

alepidotus, Gobius Schneider [J. G.] in Bloch & Schneider 1801:547 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] "Americanum septentrionale". No types known. Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Gobius alepidotus Bosc 1800. •Synonym of Gobiosoma bosc (Lacepède 1800). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Gobiosoma bosc (Lacepède 1800). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

algarbiensis, Gobius de Brito Capello [F.] 1880:23 [Catalogo dos peixes de Portugal; ref. 27866] Seas of Lisboa, Setubal and Lagos, Portugal. Syntypes: whereabouts unknown. Appeared first as Gobius sp. ? in Brito Capello 1869:224 [ref. 17966]. •Synonym of Gobius cobitis Pallas 1814 -- (Miller 1973:485 [ref. 6888], Miller 1990:934 [ref. 19376], Kottelat 1997:176 [ref. 22952], Parenti 2021:176 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Gobius cobitis Pallas 1814. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

amadi, Gobius Weber [M.] 1913:211 [Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde v. 19; ref. 4601] Lake Posso [Poso], Sulawesi, Indonesia. Lectotype: ZMA 121293. Paralectotypes: RMNH 14365 (1), ZMA 112664 (8). Type catalog: Nijssen et al. 1982:98 [ref. 19236]. Lectotype selected by Larson 2001:97 [ref. 25522]. •Valid as Weberogobius amadi (Weber 1913) -- (Kottelat et al. 1993:154 [ref. 23448]). •Valid as Mugilogobius amadi (Weber 1913) -- (Larson 2001:94 [ref. 25522], Kottelat 2013:413 [ref. 32989], Larson et al. 2014:724 [ref. 33557], Miesen et al. 2016:93 [ref. 34492]). Current status: Valid as Mugilogobius amadi (Weber 1913). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Lake Poso, Sulawesi Tengah, Indonesia. Habitat: freshwater.

amiciensis, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:135 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Tongatabou [Tongatapu], Tonga, and New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Lectotype: MNHN B-2986. Paralectotypes: MNHN 0000-2966 (9), A-1347 (1). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:25-26 [ref. 19958]. Lectotype established by Maugé 1986:379 [ref. 6218]. •Synonym of Paragobiodon echinocephalus (Rüppell 1830) -- (Maugé 1986:379 [ref. 6218], Fricke et al. 2018:337 [ref. 35805], Larson 2022:119 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Paragobiodon echinocephalus (Rüppell 1830). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

amorea, Gobius Walbaum [J. J.] 1792:205 [Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium Part 3; ref. 4572] Western Atlantic. No types known. •Synonym of Eleotris pisonis (Gmelin 1789) -- (Pezold & Cage 2002:45 [ref. 25941], Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:659 [ref. 27061], Parenti 2021:38 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Eleotris pisonis (Gmelin 1789). Eleotridae: Eleotrinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

andamanensis, Gobius Day [F.] 1871:691 [15] [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1870 (pt 3); ref. 1078] Brackish water, Andaman Islands. Syntypes: AMS B.8030 (1), BMNH 1970.6.14.10 (1). Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:161 [ref. 23762], Ferraris et al. 2000:294 [ref. 25110]. On p. 15 of separate. •Synonym of Exyrias puntang (Bleeker 1851) -- (Murdy 1985:10 [ref. 19200], Kottelat 2013:407 [ref. 32989], Parenti 2021:153 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Exyrias puntang (Bleeker 1851). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

andrei, Gobius Sauvage [H.-E.] 1880:44 [5] [Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série) v. 4; ref. 3887] Río Guayas, Ecuador. Syntypes: MNHN A-1346 (2). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:26 [ref. 19958]. On p. 5 of separate. Misspelled andraei in 1998 edition of the Catalog of Fishes. •Valid as Bathygobius andrei (Sauvage 1880) -- (Miller & Smith 1989:315 [ref. 25535], Allen & Robertson 1994:258 [ref. 22193], Hoese in Fischer et al. 1995:1134 [ref. 22829], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:152 [ref. 24555], Thomson et al. 2000:250 [ref. 25640], Miller & Stefanni 2001:147 [ref. 26034], Van Tassell 2011:140 [ref. 31732], Angulo et al. 2013:1007 [ref. 33194], Rodríguez-Rey et al. 2017:11 [ref. 35433], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:92 [ref. 35859], González-Murcia et al. 2019:293 [ref. 36544], Parenti 2021:98 [ref. 38603], Angulo et al. 2023:36 [ref. 40676], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:162 [ref. 40816]). Current status: Valid as Bathygobius andrei (Sauvage 1880). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Mexico south to Peru. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

angolensis, Gobius (Gobius) Norman [J. R.] 1935:16, Figs. 5-6 [Discovery Reports v. 12; ref. 13911] Off St. Paul de Loanda, Angola. Syntypes: (36) BMNH 1935.5.11.136-155 (20), IRSNB 46 (1). Type catalog: Walschaerts 1987:45 [ref. 20755]. •Valid as Thorogobius angolensis (Norman 1935) -- (Miller 1990:946 [ref. 19376], Sauberer & Ahnelt 2008:278 [ref. 29915], Schliewen 2011:220 [ref. 31738], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2841 [ref. 34618], Sauberer et al. 2018:359 [ref. 35962], Fermon et al. 2022:225 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Thorogobius angolensis (Norman 1935). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Senegal south to Angola. Habitat: marine.

anguillaris, Gobius Linnaeus [C.] 1758:264 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] China. Holotype (unique): ZMUU Linn. Coll. 185. Type catalog: Lönnberg 1896:41 [ref. 23530], Wheeler 1991:186-187, Fig. 24 [ref. 20102]. •Valid as Taenioides anguillaris (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:310 [ref. 26639], Allen 1991:202 [ref. 21090], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:984 [ref. 20764], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:447 [ref. 23876], Allen et al. 1992:303 [ref. 21400], Kottelat et al. 1993:156 [ref. 23448], Rema Devi 1993:185 [ref. 24020], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:6 [ref. 25122], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:191 [ref. 27510], Proudlove 2006:269 [ref. 28992], Murdy 2011:113 [ref. 31729], Kottelat 2013:434 [ref. 32989], Murdy 2018:454 [ref. 36225], Suresh et al. 2018:290 [ref. 36495], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 14 [ref. 38321], Parenti 2021:62 [ref. 38603], Miyahira & Tachihara 2022:25 [ref. 39010], Jamandre 2023:170 [ref. 40455]). Current status: Valid as Taenioides anguillaris (Linnaeus 1758). Oxudercidae: Amblyopinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: India east to Philippines, north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to Australia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

anguillaris, Gobius Forsskål [P. S.] in Niebuhr 1775:x, 23 [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea. No types known. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:53 [ref. 30182]. Not an independent species description, but a misidentification of Gobius anguillaris Linnaeus 1758; objectively invalid (see Fricke 2008:53 [ref. 30182]). •Synonym of Amblycentrus arabicus (Gmelin 1789) -- (Goren 1979:23 [ref. 1852]). •Synonym of Cryptocentrus arabicus (Gmelin 1789) -- (Fricke 2008:53 [ref. 30182]). •Synonym of Cryptocentroides arabicus (Gmelin 1789) -- (Golani & Fricke 2018:150 [ref. 36273], Larson 2022:70 [ref. 39971]). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Cryptocentroides arabicus (Gmelin 1789). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

anguilliformis, Gobioides Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1800:576, 577 [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Lacepède) v. 2; ref. 2709] China. No types known. Unnecessary replacement name for Gobius anguillaris Linnaeus 1758. Also appeared in Sonnini 1803:254, 256 (vol. 7) [ref. 30473]. •Synonym of Taenioides anguillaris (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Kottelat 2013:434 [ref. 32989], Parenti 2021:62 [ref. 38603]). Replacement Name. Current status: Synonym of Taenioides anguillaris (Linnaeus 1758). Oxudercidae: Amblyopinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

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.

annulatus, Gobius De Vis [C. W.] 1884:688 [Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales v. 9 (pt 3); ref. 17383] Cape York, Queensland, Australia. Syntypes: QM I.87 (1), I.2780 (6). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:175 [ref. 2676]. •Synonym of Amblygobius phalaena (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Hoese & Larson 2006:1622 [ref. 29097]). Current status: Synonym of Amblygobius phalaena (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

aphya, Gobius Linnaeus [C.] 1758:263 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Nile River. No types known. Spelled aphia by Rafinesque 1810:30 [ref. 3595]. Name appeared in Sassi 1846:392 [ref. 22007] as "Gobius aphya, Sassi." Gobiidae.

apogonius, Gobius Cantor [T. E.] 1849:1164 [182] [Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal v. 18 (pt 2); ref. 715] Sea of Penang, Malaysia. Syntypes: BMNH 1860.3.19.554-555 (3 half skins). On p. 182 of separate. •Synonym of Stigmatogobius sadanundio (Hamilton 1822) -- (Larson 2001:211 [ref. 25522], Larson 2005:360 [ref. 28521], Kottelat 2013:430 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Stigmatogobius sadanundio (Hamilton 1822). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

arabicus, Gobius Gmelin [J. F.] (ex Forsskål) 1789:1198 [Caroli a Linné ... Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae v. 1 (pt 3); ref. 18139] Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea. No types known. Based on Gobius anguillaris (non Linnaeus 1758) of Forsskål 1775:x, 23 [ref. 1351]. Preoccupied by the unused name Gobius djiddensis Bonnaterre, 1788. Declared a nomen protectum by Parenti 2021:123 [ref. 38603]. •Valid as Amblycentrus arabicus (Gmelin 1789) -- (Goren 1979:23 [ref. 1852], Dor 1984:238 [ref. 29757]). •Valid as Cryptocentroides arabicus (Gmelin 1789) -- (Randall et al. 1994:244 [ref. 21645], Goren & Dor 1994:63 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:333 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:213 [ref. 23922], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S118 [ref. 27377], Fricke 2008:53 [ref. 30182], Ghanbarifardi & Malek 2009:[4] 498 [ref. 37937], Golani & Fricke 2018:150 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:61 [ref. 37020], Zajonz et al. 2019:96 [ref. 36871], Jawad et al. 2021:8 [ref. 38429], Parenti 2021:123 [ref. 38603], Esmaeili et al. 2022:481 [ref. 39253], Larson 2022:70 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:8 [ref. 40247], Esmaeili & Hamidan 2023:213 [ref. 40377], Çiçek et al. 2024:303 [ref. 40789]). Nomen Protectum. Current status: Valid as Cryptocentroides arabicus (Gmelin 1789). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden and Socotra (Yemen) to Persian Gulf. Habitat: brackish, marine.

arenae, Gobius Bath [H.] 1972:349, Figs. 1-3, 5 [Senckenbergiana Biologica v. 53 (nos 5/6); ref. 7604] Barbarossa Bay near Porto Azurro, Elba Island, Italy, western Mediterranean Sea, on sand bottom with boulders, depth 3-6 meters. Holotype: SMF 11540. Paratypes: Bath coll. (2), SMF 11541 (1). •Synonym of Gobius geniporus Valenciennes 1837 -- (Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1041 [ref. 13677], Parenti 2021:178 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Gobius geniporus Valenciennes 1837. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

argulus, Gobius Peters [W. (C. H.)] 1868:266 [Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1868; ref. 3442] Coral reef near Paracale, Luzon Island, Philippines. Syntypes: ZMB 5201 (2). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

arundelii, Gobius Garman [S.] 1899:63 [Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club v. 1; ref. 14702] Clipperton Island (France), eastern Pacific. Holotype (unique): MCZ 28289. •Synonym of Bathygobius ramosus Ginsburg 1947 -- (Allen & Robertson 1994:259 [ref. 22193]). •Valid as Bathygobius arundelii (Garman 1899) -- (Hoese in Fischer et al. 1995:1134 [ref. 22829], Allen & Robertson 1997:831 [ref. 41086], Thomson et al. 2000:250 [ref. 25640]). •Synonym of Bathygobius lineatus (Jenyns 1841) but a valid subspecies arundelii (Garman 1899) -- (Miller & Stefanni 2001:150 [ref. 26034]). •Synonym of Bathygobius lineatus (Jenyns 1841) -- (Parenti 2021:103 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Bathygobius lineatus (Jenyns 1841). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Clipperton Island (France) [if valid]. Habitat: marine.

assoi, Gobius de Buen [F.] 1936:239, Figs. 1-2 [Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid v. 36; ref. 13757] Neighborhood of Melilla, Spanish Morocco, western Mediterranean Sea, depth 40 meters. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. •Synonym of Gobius strictus Fage 1907 -- (Miller 1973:488 [ref. 6888]). •Synonym of Gobius cruentatus Gmelin 1789 -- (Parenti 2021:176 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Gobius cruentatus Gmelin 1789. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

ater, Gobius Bellotti [C.] 1888:219, Pl. 4 (fig. 2) [Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali di Milano v. 31; ref. 19270] Mediterranean Sea. Syntypes and/or Bellotti specimens: MSNM (main series, destroyed in 1943), MSNG 12607 (2, types); NMW 28551-52 (1, 1), 29041 (1); ZMUC uncat., ZMUO J1123 (4) Nice. Type catalog: Tortonese 1963:342 [ref. 10350], Pethon 1969:10 [ref. 19268], Conci & Michelangeli 1974:219 [ref. 21560], Nielsen 1974:79 [ref. 9588]. On p. 7 of separate. •Valid as Gobius ater Bellotti 1888 -- (Miller 1973:484 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1036 [ref. 13677], Brito & Miller 2001:262 [ref. 25096], Ahnelt 2001:262 [ref. 25667], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:63 [ref. 36649], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:186 [ref. 31737], Schliewen 2011:217 [ref. 31738], Artüz & Fricke 2019:559 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:179 [ref. 37250], Kovačić 2020:77 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:24 [ref. 37519], Kovačić et al. 2021:40 [ref. 39014], Parenti 2021:175 [ref. 38603], Kovačić et al. 2022:[2] [ref. 39579], Renoult et al. 2022:31 [ref. 39288]). Current status: Valid as Gobius ater Bellotti 1888. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; eastern Atlantic Ocean: adjacent Portugal. Habitat: marine.

ateriformis, Gobius Brito [A.] & Miller [P. J.] 2001:260, Figs. 1C, 2B [Journal of Natural History v. 35 (no. 2); ref. 25096] Ilha de São Tiago, Cape Verde Islands, northeastern Atlantic. Holotype: BMNH uncat. Paratypes: BMNH (1), TFMC (2). •Valid as Gobius ateriformis Brito & Miller 2001 -- (Schliewen 2011:217 [ref. 31738], Wirtz et al. 2013:132 [ref. 32972], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2840 [ref. 34618], Parenti 2021:175 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Gobius ateriformis Brito & Miller 2001. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Cape Verde Islands (endemic). Habitat: marine.

aterrimus, Gobius Rafinesque [C. S.] 1814:18 [Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques de Mr. C. S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz; ref. 3582] Sicily, Italy, Mediterranean Sea. No types known. •Questionable synonym of Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758 -- (Parenti 2019:111 [ref. 37117]). •Synonym of Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758 -- (Parenti 2021:178 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

atherinoides, Gobius Peters [W. (C. H.)] 1855:445 [Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1855; ref. 3449] Mozambique. Syntypes: ZMB 2102 (2). Also described as new in Peters 1855:254 [ref. 13448]. •Synonym of Yongeichthys nebulosus (Forsskål 1775) -- (Maugé 1986:387 [ref. 6218]). •Valid as Opua atherinoides (Peters 1855) -- (Randall & Goren 1993:17 [ref. 21131]). •Valid as Hazeus atherinoides (Peters 1855) -- (Allen & Adrim 2003:59 [ref. 26830]). •Valid as Oplopomops atherinoides (Peters 1855) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:254 [ref. 6441], Myers & Donaldson 2003:643 [ref. 27495], Randall 2005:542 [ref. 28239]). •Synonym of Arcygobius baliurus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Larson et al. 2008:146 [ref. 29532], Allen & Erdmann 2012:959 [ref. 31980], Kottelat 2013:399 [ref. 32989], Parenti 2021:94 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:44 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Arcygobius baliurus (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

atriceps, Gobius (Ctenogobius) Regan [C. T.] 1905:364 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7) v. 16 (no. 93) (art. 42); ref. 15382] Inland Sea, Japan. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1905.6.7.34. •Synonym of Tridentiger obscurus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845) -- (Okada 1961:655 [ref. 6363] as articeps). Current status: Synonym of Tridentiger obscurus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

atriclypeus, Gobius Garman [S.] 1903:233, Pl. 2 (fig. 1) [Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology v. 39 (no. 8); ref. 15030] Bay of Moala, eastern side of Fiji Islands, depth 25 fathoms. Holotype (unique): MCZ 28290. •Valid as Vanderhorstia atriclypea (Garman 1903) -- (Suzuki & Chen 2014:207 [ref. 33152], Allen et al. 2020:75 [ref. 37685], Allen et al. 2024:1363 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Vanderhorstia atriclypea (Garman 1903). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Western Pacific: Fiji. Habitat: marine.

atripinnis, Gobius Fowler [H. W.] 1934:81, Figs. 21-22 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 86; ref. 1417] Sanoer, southeastern Bali, Indonesia. Holotype: ANSP 56285. Paratypes: ANSP 56286 (1). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:134 [ref. 2676], Böhlke 1984:105 [ref. 13621]. •Synonym of Bathygobius fuscus (Rüppell 1830) -- (Kottelat 2013:402 [ref. 32989], Parenti 2021:102 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Bathygobius fuscus (Rüppell 1830). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

attenuatus, Gobius Couch [J.] 1863:166, Pl. 101 (fig. 2) [The history of the fishes of the British islands v. 2; ref. 18053] British Isles. No types known. •Synonym of Gobiusculus flavescens (Fabricius 1779) -- (Miller 1973:496 [ref. 6888]). •Synonym of Pomatoschistus flavescens (Fabricius 1779). Current status: Synonym of Pomatoschistus flavescens (Fabricius 1779). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

auchenotaenia, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1867:415 [Archives néerlandaises des sciences exactes et naturelles v. 2; ref. 14040] Madagascar. Syntypes: (10) RMNH (apparently lost). •Synonym of Acentrogobius nebulosus (Forsskål 1775) -- (Maugé 1986:387 [ref. 6218]). •Synonym of Yongeichthys nebulosus (Forsskål 1775) -- (Fricke et al. 2018:345 [ref. 35805], Larson 2022:155 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Yongeichthys nebulosus (Forsskål 1775). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

auratus, Gobius Risso [A.] 1810:160 [Ichthyologie de Nice; ref. 3755] La Fourmigue, France, Mediterranean Sea, depth 28 meters. Neotype: MNHN 1988-0630. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:54 [ref. 19958]. Neotype designated by Heymer & Zander 1992:298 [ref. 21367]. •Valid as Gobius auratus Risso 1810 -- (Miller 1973:484 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1037 [ref. 13677], Miller 1990:933 [ref. 19376], Heymer & Zander 1992:298 [ref. 21367], Kovačić & Miller 2000:235 [ref. 25014], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:130 [ref. 26753], Herler et al. 2005:1048 [ref. 28118], Fricke et al. 2007:103 [ref. 29533], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:63 [ref. 36649], Villegas-Ríos & Bañón 2010:311 [ref. 30992], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:186 [ref. 31737], Kovačić et al. 2011:250 [ref. 32868], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2840 [ref. 34618], Artüz & Fricke 2019:559 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:180 [ref. 37250], Kovačić 2020:77 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:24 [ref. 37519], Kovačić et al. 2021:40 [ref. 39014],, Parenti 2021:175 [ref. 38603] Kovačić et al. 2022: 53 [ref. 39303], Renoult et al. 2022:39 [ref. 39288], Renoult et al. 2023:44 [ref. 40491]). Current status: Valid as Gobius auratus Risso 1810. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; eastern Atlantic: Spain and Portugal to Madeira and Canary Islands. Habitat: marine.

auratus, Gobius Couch [J.] 1863:159, Pl. C (fig. 1) [The history of the fishes of the British islands v. 2; ref. 18053] Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England. No types known. Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Gobius auratus Risso 1810. •Synonym of Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas 1770) -- (Miller 1973:506 [ref. 6888]) 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas 1770). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

australis, Gobiomorus Shaw [G.] 1803:249 [General zoology or systematic natural history v. 4; ref. 4014] Tahiti, Society Islands. Unneeded new name for Gobius strigatus Broussonet 1782. •Synonym of Valenciennea strigata (Broussonet 1782). Current status: Synonym of Valenciennea strigata (Broussonet 1782). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

avernensis, Gobius Canestrini [G.] 1868:169 [Commentario della Fauna, Flora e Gea del Veneto e del Trentino (Venezia) v. 1 (no. 4); ref. 23072] Arno River, Italy. No types known. •Synonym of Padogobius nigricans (Canestrini 1867) -- (Kottelat 1997:179 [ref. 22952], Miller in Miller 2004:56 [ref. 27853]). Current status: Synonym of Padogobius nigricans (Canestrini 1867). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater.

awaou, Gobius Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1800:537, 566 [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Lacepède) v. 2; ref. 2709] Tahiti, Society Islands [South Pacific]. No types known. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:54 [ref. 19958]. Unnecessary replacement name for Gobius ocellaris Broussonet 1782. Also appeared in Sonnini 1803:195, 239 (vol. 7) [ref. 30473]. •Synonym of Awaous ocellaris (Broussonet 1782) -- (Watson 1992:167 [ref. 20016]). Replacement Name. Current status: Synonym of Awaous ocellaris (Broussonet 1782). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

bacalaus, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:119 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Brazil, Rio de Janeiro; Cayenne; Cuba; Suriname. Syntypes: MNHN A-1260 (2) Brazil, A-1262 (1) Suriname, A-1360 (2) Brazil, A-1361 (1) Cuba, 1825 (1) Cayenne. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:26 [ref. 19958]. •Synonym of Gobionellus oceanicus (Pallas 1770) -- (Maugé 1986:372 [ref. 6218], Miller 1990:950 [ref. 19376], Pezold 2004:292 [ref. 27686]). Current status: Synonym of Gobionellus oceanicus (Pallas 1770). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

balearicus, Gobius Lozano Rey [L.] 1919:73 [Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. Serie Zoológica. v. 39; ref. 15217] Mallorca; Mahón, Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain, western Mediterranean Sea. Syntypes: (4). •Synonym of Gobius ater Bellotti 1888 -- (Miller 1973:484 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1036 [ref. 13677], Brito & Miller 2001:262 [ref. 25096], Parenti 2021:175 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Gobius ater Bellotti 1888. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

baliuroides, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1849:26 [Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. v. 22 [6]; ref. 319] Sumanap, eastern Madura, Java, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): RMNH (apparently lost). Appeared without distinguishing features in list in Bleeker 1849:5 [ref. 320]. •Synonym of Papillogobius reichei (Bleeker 1854) -- (Kottelat 2013:417 [ref. 32989] with question). •Synonym of Favonigobius reichei (Bleeker 1854) -- (Parenti 2021:155 [ref. 38603] with question). Current status: Synonym of Favonigobius reichei (Bleeker 1854). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

baliurus, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] (ex Kuhl & van Hasselt) in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:61 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] No locality stated [Java, Indonesia]. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-0733. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:26 [ref. 19958]. Based on a description in manuscript by Kuhl and van Hasselt, and on a specimen. •Valid as Acentrogobius baliurus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Goren & Dor 1994:62 [ref. 25356]). •Valid as Gnatholepis baliurus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Goren 1979:42 [ref. 1852], Dor 1984:245 [ref. 29757], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:638 [ref. 25122] as "Gnatholepis"). •Valid, but genus undetermined -- (Randall & Greenfield 2001:1 [ref. 25675]). •Valid as Isthmogobius baliurus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Larson & Murdy 2001:3598 [ref. 26293], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:186 [ref. 27510]). •Valid as Arcygobius baliurus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Larson & Wright 2003:131 [ref. 27481], Larson et al. 2008:146 [ref. 29532], Allen & Erdmann 2012:959 [ref. 31980], Kottelat 2013:399 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:190 [ref. 34464], Pezold & Larson 2015:6 [ref. 33809], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2015:79 [ref. 34319], Prokofiev 2016:643 [ref. 35020], Motomura et al. 2017:197 [ref. 35490], Golani & Fricke 2018:147 [ref. 36273], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:257 [ref. 36460], Fricke et al. 2019:274 [ref. 36673], Parenti 2021:93 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:44 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:5 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Arcygobius baliurus (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa (Mozambique, Kenya), Seychelles; Malaysia and Indonesia east to Philippines, north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to New Ireland (Papua New Guinea). Habitat: marine.

banana, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:103 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Santo Domingo. Lectotype: MNHN A-1265. Paralectotypes: MNHN A-1359 (1). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:26 [ref. 19958] as holotype and paratype. Lectotype designated by Watson 1996:3 [ref. 22211]. •Synonym of Awaous tajasica (Lichtenstein 1822) -- (Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:438 [ref. 24550]). •Valid as Awaous banana (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Watson 1996:3 [ref. 22211], Greenfield & Thomerson 1997:237 [ref. 22947], Bussing 1998:396 [ref. 24179], Musick 2000:18 [ref. 24959], Lim et al. 2002:98 [ref. 28310], Murdy & Hoese 2003:1795 [ref. 27111], Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:657 [ref. 27061], Ross & Rhode 2004:302 [ref. 27789], Nelson et al. 2004:169 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:668 [ref. 28815], Lasso-Alcalá & Lasso 2008:126 [ref. 30588], Scharpf 2009:13 [ref. 30400], Matamoros et al. 2009:24 [ref. 31241], Page & Burr 2011:617 [ref. 31215], Van Tassell 2011:142 [ref. 31732], McMahan et al. 2013:453 [ref. 32422], Lindstrom et al. 2012:296 [ref. 32536], Angulo et al. 2013:1007 [ref. 33194], Page et al. 2013:174 [ref. 32708], Phillip et al. 2013:24 [ref. 32896], Barriga Salazar 2014:119 [ref. 35745], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:75 [ref. 33341], Schmidt & McMullin 2015:4 [ref. 36603], Walsh & Chakrabarty 2016:515 [ref. 34497], Robins et al. 2018:408 [ref. 35886], López-Segovia et al. 2020:110 [ref. 38151], Rodríguez-Barrera et al. 2020:45 [ref. 37800], Al-Jufaili et al. 2021:[3] [ref. 38743], McMahan et al. 2021:[5] [ref. 38383], Angulo et al. 2023:35 [ref. 40676], Page et al. 2023:120 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Awaous banana (Valenciennes 1837). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: North Carolina (U.S.A) south to Venezuela, including southern Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Replaced in eastern Pacific by Awaous transandeanus (Günther 1861). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

barbarus, Gobius Linnaeus [C.] 1766:450 [Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae v. 1 (pt 1); ref. 2786] Liberia. Neotype: AMNH 32777. Neotype designated by Murdy 1989:35 [ref. 13628]. •Synonym of Periophthalmus cantonensis (Osbeck 1765) -- (Wu in Pan et al. 1991:502 [ref. 23876]). •Valid as Periophthalmus barbarus (Linnaeus 1766) -- (Murdy 1989:35 [ref. 13628], Harrison & Miller in Lévêque et al. 1992:801 [ref. 21590], Afonso et al. 1999:86 [ref. 25466], Larson & Takita 2004:184 [ref. 28075], Harrison et al. 2007:497 [ref. 30083], Jaafar & Larson 2008:952 [ref. 29863], Murdy 2011:105 [ref. 31728], Schliewen 2011:212 [ref. 31738], Félix et al. 2016:D [4] [ref. 34346], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2843 [ref. 34618], Murdy & Jaafar 2017:21 [ref. 35561], Ali et al. 2018:337 [ref. 36183], Reiner 2019:265 [ref. 38139], Skelton 2019:228, 237 [ref. 36564], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 14 [ref. 38321] misidentified, Fermon et al. 2022:223 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Periophthalmus barbarus (Linnaeus 1766). Oxudercidae: Oxudercinae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Morocco south to Angola, including Bioko (Equatorial Guinea), and São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

bassensis, Gobius Castelnau [F. L.] 1872:123 [Proceedings of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, Melbourne v. 1; ref. 757] Melbourne market, Victoria, Australia. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-1106. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:26 [ref. 19958]. •Synonym of Arenigobius bifrenatus (Kner 1865) -- (Gomon et al. 1994:784 [ref. 22532], Hoese & Larson 2006:1623 [ref. 29097], Kuiter 2018:86 [ref. 36369], Parenti 2021:94 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Arenigobius bifrenatus (Kner 1865). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

bathybius, Gobius Kessler [K. F.] 1877:17, Pl. 1 (fig. 3) [The Aralo-Caspian Expedition; ref. 2597] Svinoi Island, south of Baky, Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, 756 feet [108 Russian fathoms]. Holotype (unique): No types at ZIN. •Valid as Chasar bathybius (Kessler 1877) -- (Pinchuk et al. in Miller 2004:97 [ref. 27853]). •Valid as Ponticola bathybius (Kessler 1877) -- (Neilson & Stepien 2009:97 [ref. 30487], Freyhof 2011:286 [ref. 31742], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:899 [ref. 34062], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:899 [ref. 34062], Esmaeili et al. 2017:84 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:66 [ref. 36089], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:241 [ref. 37983], Parenti 2021:74 [ref. 38603], Zarei et al. 2021:[6] [ref. 38262]). •Valid as Neogobius bathybius (Kessler 1877) -- (Berg 1949:1094 [ref. 20662], Coad 1995:31 [ref. 23608], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:755 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1996:448 [ref. 24650], Vasil'eva 1998:137 [ref. 23591], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:228 [ref. 28183], Esmaeili et al. 2010:377 [ref. 33391], Tajbakhsh et al. 2022:16 [ref. 39137], Zarei et al. 2022:174 [ref. 39576], Çiçek et al. 2024:307 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Neogobius bathybius (Kessler 1877). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eurasia: Caspian Sea basin; introduced in Aral Sea. Habitat: brackish.

bato, Gobius Hamilton [F.] 1822:40, Pl. 37 (fig. 10) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Ganges River estuaries, India. No types known. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 26 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Apocryptes bato (Hamilton 1822) -- (Murdy 1989:7 [ref. 13628], Ataur Rahman 1989:292 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:951 [ref. 20764], Khan 2003:10 [ref. 27710], Ataur Rahman 2003:318 [ref. 31338], Murdy 2011:104 [ref. 31728], Kottelat 2013:399 [ref. 32989], Murdy & Jaafar 2017:8 [ref. 35561], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 14 [ref. 38321]). Current status: Valid as Apocryptes bato (Hamilton 1822). Oxudercidae: Oxudercinae. Distribution: Northern Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf east to Myanmar. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

batrachocephalus, Gobius Pallas [P. S.] 1814:149 [Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica v. 3; ref. 3351] Black Sea near Chersonesus [Kherson] and Balaklava, Crimea, Ukraine. Syntypes: whereabouts unknown. See Coad 1995:30 [ref. 23608]. •Valid as Mesogobius batrachocephalus (Pallas 1814) -- (Berg 1949:1096 [ref. 20662], Miller 1973:501 [ref. 6888], Pinchuk 1977:595 [ref. 8999], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1055 [ref. 13677], Kottelat 1997:178 [ref. 22952], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:755 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:136 [ref. 23591] with question in genus, Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:133 [ref. 26753], Vasil'eva 2003:S48 [ref. 28444], Pinchuk et al. in Miller 2004:109 [ref. 27853], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:226 [ref. 28183], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:182 [ref. 28369], Fricke et al. 2007:105 [ref. 29533], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:575 [ref. 29996], Vasil'eva 2007:160 [ref. 30517], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:172 [ref. 31251], Neilson & Stepien 2009:97 [ref. 30487], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:187 [ref. 31737], Freyhof 2011:284 [ref. 31742], Psomadakis et al. 2012:17 [ref. 33457], Parin et al. 2014:491 [ref. 33547], Çiçek et al. 2015:152 [ref. 35151], Artüz & Fricke 2019:559 [ref. 36612], Çiçek et al. 2020:256 [ref. 37644], Kuljanishvili et al. 2020:[5] [ref. 37535], Manilo 2020:69 [ref. 37795], Abliazov et al. 2021:11 [ref. 38576], Parenti 2021:72 [ref. 38603], Niță et al. 2022:77 [ref. 40471], Çiçek et al. 2023:431 [ref. 40625], Çiçek et al. 2024:306 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Mesogobius batrachocephalus (Pallas 1814). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eurasia: Black Sea and Sea of Azov basins. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

bayamonensis, Gobius Evermann [B. W.] & Marsh [M. C.] 1899:355 [United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Report of the Commissioner v. 25 (for 1899) Appendix 7; ref. 1283] San Juan market, Puerto Rico (probably from near the mouth of Bayamon River at Palo Seco). Holotype (unique): USNM 49365. •Synonym of Gobionellus oceanicus (Pallas 1770) -- (Maugé 1986:372 [ref. 6218], Miller 1990:950 [ref. 19376], Pezold 2004:292 [ref. 27686]). Current status: Synonym of Gobionellus oceanicus (Pallas 1770). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

beauforti, Gobius Weber [M.] 1907:261 [Süsswasserfische von Neu-Guinea v. 5 (Zool.) pt 2; ref. 4599] Klipong River and Mamapiri Creek, northern New Guinea. Syntypes: (4) ?RMNH 14357 (1), ZMA 110943 (1) Klipong R., 110944 (2) Mamapiri Creek. Type catalog: Nijssen et al. 1982:98 [ref. 19236]. •Valid as Stenogobius beauforti (Weber 1907) -- (Allen 1991:197 [ref. 21090], Watson 1991:648 [ref. 19908], Larson & Murdy 2001:3601 [ref. 26293] dated 1908, Keith & Marquet 2006:141 [ref. 28956] in subgenus Insularigobius and dated 1908, Fricke et al. 2014:172 [ref. 33932]). Current status: Valid as Stenogobius beauforti (Weber 1907). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Papua New Guinea. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

beccarii, Gobius Perugia [A.] 1892:1010 [2] [Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (Serie 2) v. 12; ref. 3432] Sarawak state, Borneo, East Malaysia. Syntypes: MSNG 12656 (16). Type catalog: Tortonese 1963:342 [ref. 10350]. On p. 1 of separate. •Questionably a synonym of Stigmatogobius borneensis (Bleeker 1851) -- (Larson 2001:209 [ref. 25522]). •Questionably a synonym of Stigmatogobius sella (Steindachner 1881) -- (Larson 2001:211 [ref. 25522]). •Synonym of Stigmatogobius sella (Steindachner 1881) -- (Larson 2005:363 [ref. 28521], Kottelat 2013:430 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Stigmatogobius sella (Steindachner 1881). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

belosso, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1854:316 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 7 (no. 2); ref. 16935] Tjiringin, Banten Province, Java, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): RMNH 4543 (156 mm TL spec. of 6). •Synonym of Oxyurichthys papuensis (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Maugé 1986:379 [ref. 6218], Kottelat 2013:416 [ref. 32989], Pezold & Larson 2015:5, 57 [ref. 33894]). Current status: Synonym of Oxyurichthys papuensis (Valenciennes 1837). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

bequaerti, Gobius Fowler [H. W.] 1923:4 [American Museum Novitates No. 103; ref. 1399] Mouth of the Congo River, western Africa. Holotype (unique): AMNH 8283 (not seen in 1996). •Synonym of Yongeichthys thomasi (Boulenger 1916) -- (Maugé 1986:38 [ref. 6218], Miller 1990:950 [ref. 19376]). Current status: Synonym of Yongeichthys thomasi (Boulenger 1916). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

bergi, Hyrcanogobius Iljin [B. S.] 1928:44, Figs. 7-11 [Trudy Astrakhanskoi nauchnoi rybokhoziaistvennoi stantsii = Reports of the Astrakhan Scientific Fishery Station v. 6 (no. 3); ref. 2296] Northern Caspian Sea, near mouths of rivers Volga, Ural, and Emba, Russia and Kazakhstan. Syntypes: (many) ZIN 25417 (5) Volga. Based in part on Gobius longecaudatus var. c of Kessler 1877. •Valid as Knipowitschia bergi (Iljin 1928) -- (Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:567 [ref. 29996], Thacker et al. 2018:[4] [ref. 36082]). •Valid as Hyrcanogobius bergi Iljin 1928 -- (Berg 1949:1069 [ref. 20662], Mitrofanov & Dukravec 1989:275 [ref. 37748], Coad 1995:30 [ref. 23608], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:754 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:135 [ref. 23591], Miller & Pinchuk in Miller 2004:432 [ref. 27853], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:220 [ref. 28183], Esmaeili et al. 2010:377 [ref. 33391], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:898 [ref. 34062], Esmaeili et al. 2017:82 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:64 [ref. 36089], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:233 [ref. 37983], Zarei et al. 2022:170 [ref. 39576], Çiçek et al. 2024:316 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Hyrcanogobius bergi Iljin 1928. Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Eurasia: Caspian Sea basin. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

bernadoui, Coryphopterus Jordan [D. S.] & Starks [E. C.] 1905:207, Fig. 9 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 28 (no. 1391); ref. 2530] Probably Korea. Holotype (unique): USNM 51499. Type catalog: Koumans 1940:130 [ref. 2676]. •Synonym of Gobius caninus Valenciennes 1837 -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:356 [ref. 7348]). •Synonym of Acentrogobius caninus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Kottelat 2013:397 [ref. 32989], Parenti 2021:78 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Acentrogobius caninus (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

bibarbatus, Gobius von Bonde [C.] 1923:28, Pl. 6 [Report Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey, Union of South Africa Rep. 3 (art. 1); ref. 521] Off Saldanha Bay, South Africa, southeastern Atlantic, Pickle station 312, depth 50 fathoms. Syntypes: (several) BMNH 1927.12.6.46-49 [ex SAM] (4), SAM (none found in 1995). •Valid as Sufflogobius bibarbatus (von Bonde 1923) -- (Hoese 1986:804 [ref. 5670], Miller 1990:947 [ref. 19376], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:168 [ref. 25472], Schliewen 2011:220 [ref. 31738], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2841 [ref. 34618]). Current status: Valid as Sufflogobius bibarbatus (von Bonde 1923). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southern Africa: Namibia to Cape of Good Hope. Habitat: marine.

bicirrhosus, Gobius Weber [M.] 1894:412 [Zoologische Ergebnisse einer Reise in Niederländisch Ost-Indien v. 3 (no. 2); ref. 14569] Maros River, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Syntypes: (10) ZMA 110979 (8). Type catalog: Nijssen et al. 1982:98 [ref. 19236]. •Valid as Illana bicirrhosa (Weber 1894) -- (Wu in Pan et al. 1991:460 [ref. 23876] as bicirrhosus, Endruweit 2024:203 [ref. 41040]). •Valid as Glossogobius bicirrhosus (Weber 1894) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:274 [ref. 6441], Allen 1991:179 [ref. 21090], Kottelat et al. 1993:145 [ref. 23448], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:637 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1201 [ref. 25182], Larson & Murdy 2001:3597 [ref. 26293], Sakai et al. 2001:112 [ref. 25693], Allen et al. 2002:277 [ref. 25930], Nakabo 2002:1201 [ref. 26193], Hoese & Larson 2006:1653 [ref. 29097], Hoese & Allen 2012:269 [ref. 31974], Kottelat 2013:407 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:165 [ref. 33932], Hoese et al. 2015:18 [ref. 33684], Hoese & Allen 2015:214 [ref. 33880], Hoese & Hammer 2021:111 [ref. 38350], Parenti 2021:160 [ref. 38603], Furuhashi et al. 2023:28 [ref. 40140], Jamandre 2023:168 [ref. 40455]). Current status: Valid as Glossogobius bicirrhosus (Weber 1894). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Western Pacific: Indonesia east to Philippines and New Guinea, north to southern Japan, south to Queensland (Australia). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

bicolor, Gobius Gmelin [J. F.] 1789:1197 [Caroli a Linné ... Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae v. 1 (pt 3); ref. 18139] Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Based on 'Gobius No. 41 of Brünnich 1768:30 [ref. 17290]. See also Gobius nigellus Bonnaterre 1788. •Synonym of Gobius paganellus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Miller 1973:487 [ref. 6888], Miller 1990:936 [ref. 19376], Parenti 2021:179 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Gobius paganellus Linnaeus 1758. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

bifrenatus, Gobius Kner [R.] 1865:177, Pl. 7 (fig. 3) [Reise der öesterreichischen Fregatte "Novara" v. 1 (pt 2); ref. 18427] Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Syntypes: NMW 20592 (1), 57208 (3). Also appeared in Kner 1865 (May 18):502, Pl. 7 (fig. 3) [ref. 4928], earliest not established. •Valid as Amoya bifrenatus (Kner 1865) -- (Larson & Hoese in McDowall 1996:226 [ref. 22909]). •Valid as Acentrogobius bifrenatus (Kner 1956 [sic]) -- (Larson & Murdy 2001:3594 [ref. 26293], Francis et al. 2003:105 [ref. 27058], Francis et al. 2004:678 [ref. 27965]). •Valid as Arenigobius bifrenatus (Kner 1865) -- (Cadwallader & Backhouse 1983:144 [ref. 25473], Kuiter 1993:359 [ref. 23929], Gomon et al. 1994:783 [ref. 22532], Willis et al. 1999:189 [ref. 24629], Hutchins 2001:42 [ref. 25847], Hoese & Larson 2006:1623 [ref. 29097], Hoese & Larson 2008:753 [ref. 30660], Larson 2011:237, 239 [ref. 31740], Hoese 2015:1576 [ref. 34304], Kuiter 2018:86 [ref. 36369], Parenti 2021:94 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Arenigobius bifrenatus (Kner 1865). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southeastern Indian Ocean, southwestern Pacific: southern Queensland (Australia) to Western Australia; New Zealand (introduced). Habitat: brackish, marine.

bimaculatus, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] (ex Ehrenberg) in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:108 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Massawa, Eritrea, Red Sea. Syntypes: MNHN A-1358 (4); ZMB 2072-76 (2, now 1, 1, now 6, 1). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:27 [ref. 19958]. •Synonym of Amblycentrus arabicus (Gmelin 1789) -- (Goren 1979:23 [ref. 1852], Dor 1984:238 [ref. 29757]). •Synonym of Cryptocentroides arabicus (Gmelin 1789) -- (Golani & Fricke 2018:150 [ref. 36273], Parenti 2021:123 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:70 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Cryptocentroides arabicus (Gmelin 1789). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

biocellatus, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:73 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Puducherry, India. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-0990. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:27 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Glossogobius biocellatus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:275 [ref. 6441], Hoese 1986:789 [ref. 5670], Maugé 1986:367 [ref. 6218], Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:276 [ref. 26639] with authors as Cuvier & Valenciennes, Allen & Swainston 1988:134 [ref. 25477], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:612 [ref. 25598], Allen 1991:179 [ref. 21090], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:935 [ref. 20764], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:466 [ref. 23876], Indra 1993:190 [ref. 24009], Rema Devi 1993:174 [ref. 24020], Kottelat et al. 1993:145 [ref. 23448], Zhu 1995:180 [ref. 25213], Allen 1997:216 [ref. 23977], Larson & Williams 1997:368 [ref. 23967], Johnson 1999:748 [ref. 25471], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:637 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1201 [ref. 25182], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:247 [ref. 25480], Sakai et al. 2001:112 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:1201 [ref. 26193], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S119 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:644 [ref. 27495], Tan & Lim 2004:111 [ref. 27716], Larson et al. 2008:150 [ref. 29532], Motomura et al. 2010:212 [ref. 31256], Schliewen 2011:216 [ref. 31738], Hoese & Allen 2015:214 [ref. 33880], Koeda et al. 2016:92 [ref. 35333]). •Valid as Psammogobius biocellatus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Allen et al. 2002:281 [ref. 25930], Larson & Murdy 2001:3599 [ref. 26293], Hoese & Larson 2006:1679 [ref. 29097], Shibukawa 2009:284 [ref. 30449], Larson et al. 2013:206 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:421 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:171 [ref. 33932], Allen 2017:85 [ref. 35315], Fricke et al. 2018:339 [ref. 35805], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:267 [ref. 36460], Suresh et al. 2018:289 [ref. 36495], Yamakawa et al. 2020:77 [ref. 40470], Islam et al. 2021:117 [ref. 38352], Keith et al. 2021:124 [ref. 38257], Taki et al. 2021:432 [ref. 39830], Larson 2022:131 [ref. 39971], Jamandre 2023:169 [ref. 40455], Endruweit 2024:81 [ref. 41040]). Current status: Valid as Psammogobius biocellatus (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) and Madagascar east to Guam, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, north to Sagami Bay (Japan), south to northern Australia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

biocellatus, Gobius Couch [J.] 1863:165, Pl. 101 (fig. 1) [The history of the fishes of the British islands v. 2; ref. 18053] British Isles. No types known. Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Gobius biocellatus Valenciennes 1837. •Synonym of Gobiusculus flavescens (Fabricius 1779) -- (Miller 1973:496 [ref. 6888]). •Synonym of Pomatoschistus flavescens (Fabricius 1779). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Pomatoschistus flavescens (Fabricius 1779). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

bipunctatus, Gobius Yarrell [W.] 1836:255, Fig. [A history of British fishes; ref. 4812] Ireland and England. No types known. According to Miller 1973:496, ref. 6888, Gobius punctatus and Gobius tripunctatus are errors for bipunctatus made by Valenciennes 1837. •Synonym of Gobiusculus flavescens (Fabricius 1779) -- (Miller 1973:496 [ref. 6888]). •Synonym of Pomatoschistus flavescens (Fabricius 1779). Current status: Synonym of Pomatoschistus flavescens (Fabricius 1779). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

bishopi, Gobius Müller [J.] & Troschel [F. H.] in Schomburgk 1848:672 [16] [The history of Barbados; comprising a geographical description of the island and an account of its geology and natural productions.; ref. 17812] Barbados, West Indies. Holotype (unique): ZMB 2051. Appeared first as above; reprinted in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1848:16. Gobiidae: Gobiinae.

bitelatus, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:89 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Red Sea. Syntypes: MNHN A-1165 (2, poor condition). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:27 [ref. 19958]. •Synonym of Oplopomus oplopomus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Goren 1979:48 [ref. 1852], Dor 1984:248 [ref. 29757], Larson 2022:117 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Oplopomus oplopomus (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

bivittata, Tamanka Herre [A. W. C. T.] 1927:224, Pl. 17 (fig. 4) [Monographs, Bureau of Science Manila Monogr. 23; ref. 2104] Hoihow, Hainan Island, China. Holotype (unique): BSMP 13194 (destroyed, seen by Koumans). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:188 [ref. 2676]. •Synonym of Gobius abei (Jordan & Snyder 1901) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:354 [ref. 7348]). •Synonym of Mugilogobius abei (Jordan & Snyder 1901) -- (Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:271 [ref. 26639], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:456 [ref. 23876], Larson 2001:80 [ref. 25522], Kottelat 2013:413 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Mugilogobius abei (Jordan & Snyder 1901). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

bleekeri, Gobius Day [F.] 1868:195 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868 (pt 1); ref. 1076] Backwater, Madras, India. Holotype (unique): ZSI F2995 (lost). Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:161 [ref. 23762]. Reasons for loss of ZSI type specimens during WWII see Chopra 1947:349-350 [ref. 33077]. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater.

blennioides, Gobius Kessler [K. F.] 1877:12, Pl. 1 (fig. 4) [The Aralo-Caspian Expedition; ref. 2597] Baku Bay, Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, depth 42 feet [6 Russian fathoms]. Holotype (unique): ZIN 10903. •Synonym of Proterorhinus marmoratus (Pallas 1814) -- (Berg 1949:1100 [ref. 20662], Miller 1973:511 [ref. 6888], Coad 1995:31 [ref. 23608], Kottelat 1997:181 [ref. 22952], Vasil'eva 1998:145 [ref. 23591], Pinchuk et al. in Miller 2004:72 [ref. 27853]). •Synonym of Proterorhinus nasalis (De Filippi 1863) -- (Neilson & Stepien 2009:98 [ref. 30487], Parin et al. 2014:503 [ref. 33547], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:246 [ref. 37983], Parenti 2021:77 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Proterorhinus nasalis (De Filippi 1863). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater.

blokzeyli, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1860:240 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 22 (no. 3-6); ref. 16991] Bali, Sunda Islands, Indonesia. Syntypes: RMNH 4511 (2). •Valid as Stenogobius blokzeyli (Bleeker 1860) -- (Watson 1991:632 [ref. 19908] tentatively, Kottelat et al. 1993:153 [ref. 23448], Larson & Murdy 2001:3601 [ref. 26293], Kottelat 2013:429 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Valid as Stenogobius blokzeyli (Bleeker 1860). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Indonesia [amphidromous]. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

boddarti, Gobius Pallas [P. S.] 1770:11, Pl. 2 (fig. 4-5) [Spicilegia Zoologica v. 1 (fasc. 8); ref. 12293] Indian Ocean. No types known. Gobius boddaert Lacepède 1800:535, 543 [ref. 2709] and Sonnini 1803:191, 202 (vol. 7) [ref. 30473] is an unjustified emendation. Spelled boddaerti in Gmelin 1789:1201 [ref. 18139] and Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:199 [ref. 1006]. •Valid as Boleophthalmus boddarti (Pallas 1770) -- (Murdy 1989:14 [ref. 13628], Ataur Rahman 1989:295 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:954 [ref. 20764], Rema Devi 1993:1832 [ref. 24020], Kottelat et al. 1993:143 [ref. 23448], Rainboth 1996:210 [ref. 22772], Coad 1996:6 [ref. 23831], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:636 [ref. 25122], Larson & Murdy 2001:3602 [ref. 26293], Khaironizam & Norma-Rashid 2003:250 [ref. 27124], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S117 [ref. 27377], Khan 2003:10 [ref. 27710] as Boleopthalmus, Ataur Rahman 2003:320 [ref. 31338], Larson et al. 2008:139 [ref. 29532], Larson et al. 2008:139 [ref. 29532], Shibukawa 2009:265 [ref. 30449], Murdy 2011:104 [ref. 31728], Polgar et al. 2013:319 [ref. 32496], Kottelat 2013:402 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:191 [ref. 34464], Huang et al. 2014:108 [ref. 33161], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2015:79 [ref. 34319], Murdy & Jaafar 2017:10 [ref. 35561], Ali et al. 2018:337 [ref. 36183], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:257 [ref. 36460], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 14 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:547 [ref. 37272], Taki et al. 2021:474 [ref. 39830], Jamaluddin et al. 2022:[8] [ref. 39245], Larson 2022:173 [ref. 39971], Jamandre 2023:170 [ref. 40455]). Current status: Valid as Boleophthalmus boddarti (Pallas 1770). Oxudercidae: Oxudercinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: India, Bangladesh and Myanmar east to Sulawesi and Maluku (Indonesia) and Philippines, north to northern Vietnam. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

boekeri, Gobius Ahl [E.] 1931:405, Fig. [Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1930; ref. 16255] "Soure Marajó", Para, Brazil. Holotype (unique): ZMB (not found). •Valid as Gobius boekeri Ahl 1931 -- (Moura et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:99 [ref. 27192]). •Synonym of Gobionellus oceanicus (Pallas 1770) -- (Caires 2019:3 [ref. 37363]). Current status: Synonym of Gobionellus oceanicus (Pallas 1770). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

bogdanowi, Gobius Kessler [K. F.] 1874:267 [77], Fig. 1 [Trudy St.-Peterburgskogo Obscestva Estestvoispytatelej = Travaux de la Société des Naturalistes de St. Pétersbourg. v. 5; ref. 18397] Caspian sea at Makhachkala [Petrovsk], Russia. Syntypes: (2) ZIN 10902 (1). •Valid as Neogobius bogdanowi (Kessler 1874) -- (Berg 1949:1094 [ref. 20662]). •Synonym of Neogobius ratan (Nordmann 1840) -- (Coad 1995:31 [ref. 23608], Coad 1995:31 [ref. 23608], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:756 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:142 [ref. 23591], Pinchuk et al. 2003:357 [ref. 27348]). •Synonym of Ponticola ratan (Nordmann 1840) -- (Neilson & Stepien 2009:97 [ref. 30487], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:244 [ref. 37983], Parenti 2021:75 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Ponticola ratan (Nordmann 1840). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

boleosoma, Gobius Jordan [D. S.] & Gilbert [C. H.] 1882:295 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 5 (no. 282); ref. 2472] Laguna Grande, Pensacola, Florida, U.S.A. Lectotype: USNM 30860. Paralectotypes: MNHN 1887-0484 (1), 1990-0648 (1, = Microgobius thalassinus); CAS-SU 1675 (?33); USNM 109445 (1), 265103 (now 39). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:27 [ref. 19958]. Lectotype selected by Pezold 2022:86 [ref. 39351]. •Valid as Gobionellus boleosoma (Jordan & Gilbert 1882) -- (Lee et al. 1980:792 [ref. 22416], Pezold & Cashner 1983:74 [ref. 37430], Robins & Ray 1986:246 [ref. 23100], Boschung 1992:163 [ref. 23239], Espinosa Pérez et al. 1993:74 [ref. 22290], Cervigón 1994:174 [ref. 24488], Murdy et al. 1997:213 [ref. 23144], Aguilera 1998:52 [ref. 24221], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:445 [ref. 24550], Marín 2000:79 [ref. 26252], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:167 [ref. 27754], Camargo & Isaac 2001:142 [ref. 27639]). •Valid as Ctenogobius boleosoma (Jordan & Gilbert 1882) -- (Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:316 [ref. 25013], Schwartz 1999:285 [ref. 25307], Murdy & Hoese 2003:1795 [ref. 27111], Moura et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:98 [ref. 27192], Pezold 2004:273 [ref. 27685], Ross & Rhode 2004:305 [ref. 27789], Nelson et al. 2004:170 [ref. 27807], Boschung & Mayden 2004:626 [ref. 27995], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:687 [ref. 28815], García-Hernández et al. 2009:94 [ref. 37265], Matamoros et al. 2009:24 [ref. 31241], Page & Burr 2011:617 [ref. 31215], Van Tassell 2011:143 [ref. 31732], Di Dario et al. 2013:263 [ref. 37503], Page et al. 2013:176 [ref. 32708], Phillip et al. 2013:24 [ref. 32896], Angulo et al. 2013:1008 [ref. 33194], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:77 [ref. 33341], Schmidt & McMullin 2015:4 [ref. 36603], Costa et al. 2017:46 [ref. 35684], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:345 [ref. 36407], Robins et al. 2018:436 [ref. 35886], Ribeiro et al. 2019:6 [ref. 36717], Carvalho-Filho in Marceniuk et al. 2021:236 [ref. 38945], Koerber et al. 2022:66 [ref. 39235], Mavruk et al. 2022:901 [ref. 39917], Pezold 2022:84 [ref. 39351], Angulo et al. 2023:36 [ref. 40676], Kovačić et al. 2023:133 [ref. 40094], Page et al. 2023:121 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Ctenogobius boleosoma (Jordan & Gilbert 1882). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: southern New Jersey (U.S.A.) and Bermuda south to southern Brazil, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Invasive in central and eastern Mediterranean Sea. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

bombayensis, Gobius Annandale [N.] 1919:138, Pl. 1 (fig. 5) [Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) v. 16 (pt 1); ref. 15202] Yenna River at Medha, Satara District, Maharashtra, India. Holotype: ZSI F9698/1. Paratypes: (unknown quantity). See Das 2003:373 [ref. 27706]. •Questionably a synonym of Brachygobius nunus (Hamilton 1822) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:930 [ref. 20764]). •Synonym of Pseudogobiopsis oligactis (Bleeker 1875) -- (Kottelat 2013:421 [ref. 32989] with question). Current status: Uncertain as Pseudogobiopsis oligactis (Bleeker 1875). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

bonelli, Gobius Bonaparte [C. L.] 1846:96 [Atti della Settima Adunanza degli Scienziati Italiani Sesta Riunione, Milano 7a Adunanza, Napoli, Part 2; ref. 519] Italy. Replacement name for Gobius fluviatilis Bonelli in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837, which is our Gobius fluviatilis Valenciennes (ex Bonelli). •Valid as Padogobius bonelli (Bonaparte 1846) -- (Kottelat 1997:179 [ref. 22952], Bianco & Ketmaier 2001:195 [ref. 26728], Miller in Miller 2004:37 [ref. 27853], Zupančič 2008:71 [ref. 29926], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:585 [ref. 29996], Freyhof 2011:285 [ref. 31742], Bianco & Delmastro 2011:6 [ref. 31648], Bianco 2013:9 [ref. 32897] as bonellii, Ćaleta et al. 2015:73 [ref. 34877], Ćaleta et al. 2019:183 [ref. 37026], Lorenzoni et al. 2019:253 [ref. 37108]). Replacement Name. Current status: Valid as Padogobius bonelli (Bonaparte 1846). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southern Europe: northern Adriatic basin (southern Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia). Habitat: freshwater.

bontii, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1849:27 [Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. v. 22 [6]; ref. 319] Madura Straits near Surabaya and Kammal, Java, Indonesia. Syntypes: RMNH 4658 (1). Appeared without distinguishing features in list in Bleeker 1849:5 [ref. 320]. •Valid as Acentrogobius bontii (Bleeker 1849) -- (Maugé 1986:358 [ref. 6218], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S118 [ref. 27377]). •Synonym of Drombus triangularis (Weber 1909) -- (Kottelat et al. 1993:144 [ref. 23448]). •Valid as "Gobius" bontii Bleeker 1849 -- (Larson et al. 2008:149 [ref. 29532]). •Valid as Drombus bontti (Bleeker 1849) -- (Kottelat 2013:405 [ref. 32989], Miesen et al. 2016:93 [ref. 34492], Parenti 2021:133 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Drombus bontii (Bleeker 1849). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean: Indonesia and Singapore. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

boreus, Zonogobius Snyder [J. O.] 1909:605 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 36 (no. 1688); ref. 4151] Tidepools at Misaki, Japan. Holotype: USNM 62953. Paratypes: CAS-SU 21137 (1). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:128, 144 [ref. 2676], Böhlke 1953:120 [ref. 12291]. Types: Shinohara & Williams 2006:564 [ref. 31656]. •Synonym of Gobius semidoliatus Valenciennes 1837 -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:354 [ref. 7348]). •Valid as Priolepis boreus (Snyder 1909) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:248 [ref. 6441], Winterbottom & Burridge 1993:498 [ref. 20895], Aonuma et al. 1996:325 [ref. 22433], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:639 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1174 [ref. 25182] as borea, Shinohara et al. 2000:183 [ref. 25987], Shimizu 2001:39 [ref. 25799] as borea, Nakabo 2002:1174 [ref. 26193] as borea, Choi et al. 2003:399, 663 [ref. 26218], Yoshigou 2019:194 [ref. 36714] as borea). Current status: Valid as Priolepis boreus (Snyder 1909). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Japan and Korea. Habitat: marine.

borneensis, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1850:10 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 1 (no. 1); ref. 16884] Bandjarmasin, Borneo, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): RMNH 6175 (1 of 8, but several of suitable length). Original spelling was borneënsis. •Valid as Stigmatogobius borneensis (Bleeker 1850) -- (Kottelat et al. 1993:154 [ref. 23448], Kottelat & Lim 1996:247 [ref. 23210], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:640 [ref. 25122], Larson 2001:209 [ref. 25522], Larson & Murdy 2001:3602 [ref. 26293], Larson 2005:350 [ref. 28521], Larson et al. 2008:144 [ref. 29532], Kottelat 2013:430 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Valid as Stigmatogobius borneensis (Bleeker 1850). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Singapore and Borneo. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

borysthenis, Gobius batrachocephalus natio Pinchuk [V. I.] 1963:126 [Dopov. Nauk URSR v. 1; ref. 30488] •In the synonymy of Mesogobius batrachocephalus (Pallas 1814) -- (Neilson & Stepien 2009:97 [ref. 30487], Parin et al. 2014:492 [ref. 33547]). Current status: Synonym of Mesogobius batrachocephalus (Pallas 1814). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater.

bosc, Gobius Lacepède [B. G. E.] (ex Bosc d'Antic) 1800:536, 555, Pl. 16 (fig. 1) [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Lacepède) v. 2; ref. 2709] Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:55 [ref. 19958]. Based on 'Gobius alepidotus, corpore nudo, griseo, fasciis septem pallidis' in manuscript by Bosc (Louis-Augustin Bosc d'Antic, 1759-1828, French naturalist). The spelling bosc is acceptable. •Valid as Gobiosoma bosc (Lacepède 1800) [often as bosci] -- (Lee et al. 1980:795 [ref. 22416], Smith 1986:443 [ref. 22186], Robins & Ray 1986:249 [ref. 23100] as bosci, Boschung 1992:164 [ref. 23239], Murdy et al. 1997:215 [ref. 23144], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:431 [ref. 24550], Schwartz 1999:286 [ref. 25307], Fuller et al. 1999:460 [ref. 25838], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:167 [ref. 27754], Rüber et al. 2003:1597 [ref. 26969], Murdy & Hoese 2003:1794 [ref. 27111], Ross & Rhode 2004:310 [ref. 27789], Nelson et al. 2004:171 [ref. 27807], Boschung & Mayden 2004:631 [ref. 27995], Lasso-Alcalá et al. 2005:211 [ref. 28376], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:706 [ref. 28815], Miller 2006:398 [ref. 28615], García-Hernández et al. 2009:94 [ref. 37265] as bosci, Van Tassell 2011:154 [ref. 31732], Page et al. 2013:177 [ref. 32708], Tornabene & Van Tassell 2014:22 [ref. 33167], Van Tassell et al. 2015:475 [ref. 33949], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:345 [ref. 36407], Robins et al. 2018:414 [ref. 35886], Page et al. 2023:122 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Gobiosoma bosc (Lacepède 1800). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: including Gulf of Mexico; introduced elsewhere. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

boscii, Gobius Sauvage [H.-E.] 1880:44 [5] [Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série) v. 4; ref. 3887] Martinique Island, West Indies [doubtfil]. Syntypes: MNHN A-1922 (5), A-1923 (6). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:27 [ref. 19958]. On p. 5 of separate. Not same as Gobius bosc Lacepède 1800. •Senior synonym of Glossogobius aureus Akihito & Meguro 1975 -- (Kottelat 1823:407 [ref. 32989] with question, Parenti 2021:160 [ref. 38603] with question). Current status: Uncertain as Glossogobius aureus Akihito & Meguro 1975. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

bothriorrhynchus, Gobius Herzenstein [S. M.] 1896:3 [Ezhegodnik, Zoologicheskago Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk v. 1 (no. 1); ref. 2151] Philippines. Holotype (unique): ZIN 9684 (poor condition). •Valid as Callogobius bothriorrhynchus (Herzenstein 1896) -- (Delventhal & Mooi 2013:156 [ref. 32677], Parenti 2021:111 [ref. 38603], Delventhal & Mooi 2023:460 [ref. 40434] with question). Current status: Valid as Callogobius bothriorrhynchus (Herzenstein 1896). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Western Pacific: Philippines. Habitat: freshwater.

boulerot, Gobius Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1800:536, 552 [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Lacepède) v. 2; ref. 2709] North Atlantic; seas of Asia. No types known. Syntypes: NRM 103 (1), 104 (1), 105 (1); ZMUU Linn. Coll. 184. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:55 [ref. 19958]. Unnecessary replacement name for Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758. Also appeared in Sonnini 1803:193, 217 (vol. 7) [ref. 30473]. •Synonym of Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758 -- (Parenti 2021:178 [ref. 38603]). Replacement Name. Current status: Synonym of Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

brasiliensis, Gobius Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:69 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Brazil. No types known. •Synonym of Gobioides broussonnetii Lacepède 1800 -- (Murdy 1998:129 [ref. 23380] as broussoneti, Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:660 [ref. 27061]). Current status: Synonym of Gobioides broussonnetii Lacepède 1800. Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

breunigii, Gobius Steindachner [F.] 1879:140 [22] [Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 80 (nos 1-2); ref. 4229] Hakodate, Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. Syntypes: NMW 30276 (8). On p. 22 of separate. •Synonym of Chaenogobius annularis Gill 1859 -- (Okada 1961:676 [ref. 6363]). •Valid as Gymnogobius breunigii (Steindachner 1879) -- (Stevenson 2002:276 [ref. 26489], Hagiwara 2003:38 [ref. 27188], Vasil'eva 2003:S45 [ref. 28444] dated 1880, Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:222 [ref. 28183], Vasil'eva 2005:710 [ref. 28421], Shedko & Chereshnev 2005:438 [ref. 30089] in subgenus Chloea, Matsui et al. 2014:10 [ref. 33344], Parin et al. 2014:485 [ref. 33547], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:188 [ref. 35257], Kim et al. 2020:169 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:104 [ref. 37637], Dyldin et al. 2021:35 [ref. 38804], Ito et al. 2021:[9] [ref. 38897]). Current status: Valid as Gymnogobius breunigii (Steindachner 1879). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Yellow Sea (China, Korea), Sea of Japan (Korea, Japan, Russia) and Sea of Okhotsk (Russia). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

breviceps, Gobius Blyth [E.] 1858:271 [Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal v. 27 (no. 3); ref. 476] Port Blair, Andaman Islands. No types known. •Synonym of Bathygobius fuscus (Rüppell 1830) -- (Kottelat 2013:402 [ref. 32989], Parenti 2021:101 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Bathygobius fuscus (Rüppell 1830). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

brevifilis, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:90 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Puducherry, India. Syntypes: MNHN A-1357 (2). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:27 [ref. 19958]. •Synonym of Yongeichthys nebulosus (Forsskål 1775) -- (Maugé 1986:387 [ref. 6218], Kottelat 2013:432 [ref. 32989], Larson 2022:155 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Yongeichthys nebulosus (Forsskål 1775). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

breviodontus, Gobius (Acanthogobius) ommaturus var. Wu [H.-W.] 1931:44, Fig. 7 [Contributions from the Biological Laboratory of the Science Society of China. (Zoological Series) v. 7 (no. 1); ref. 16348] Fukien, China. Syntypes: (2) whereabouts unknown. •Synonym of Synechogobius hasta (Temminck & Schkegel 1845) -- (Kottelat 2013:431 [ref. 32989]). •Synonym of Acanthogobius hasta (Temmenck & Schlegel 1845). Current status: Synonym of Acanthogobius hasta (Temminck & Schlegel 1845). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: marine.

brevirostris, Gobius Günther [A.] 1861:41 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 3; ref. 1964] China. Holotype (unique): BMNH 2005.10.3.1. •Valid as Ctenogobius brevirostris (Günther 1861) -- (Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:297 [ref. 26639]). •Valid as Acentrogobius brevirostris (Günther 1861) -- (Kottelat 2013:397 [ref. 32989]). •Valid as Amoya brevirostris (Günther 1861) -- (Parenti 2021:91 [ref. 38603]). •Valid as Creisson brevirostris (Günther 1861) -- (Endruweit 2024:76 [ref. 41040]). Current status: Valid as Acentrogobius brevirostris (Günther 1861). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Southeast Asia: southeast China and northern Vietnam. Habitat: freshwater.

brittanicus, Gobius Thompson [W.] 1837:61 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Part 5 (1837) (54); ref. 4388] Galway Bay, western coast of Ireland; Corfu [Kerkira Island], Greece, Mediterranean Sea. Syntypes: whereabouts unknown. •Synonym of Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758 -- (Miller 1973:483 [ref. 6888], Miller 1990:936 [ref. 19376], Kottelat 1997:176 [ref. 22952], Parenti 2021:178 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

broussonnetii, Gobioides Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1800:576, 580, Pl. 17 (fig. 1) [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Lacepède) v. 2; ref. 2709] No locality stated [? Suriname]. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-4209. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:24 [ref. 19958]. Murdy 1998:129 [ref. 23380] regards MNHN 4209 as the holotype. The original spelling probably should be retained. Also appeared in Sonnini 1803:254, 259 (vol. 7) [ref. 30473]. •Valid as Gobioides broussonnetii Lacepède 1800 [often as broussoneti] -- (Lee et al. 1980:790 [ref. 22416], Robins & Ray 1986:246 [ref. 23100], Boschung 1992:166 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1994:167 [ref. 24488], Greenfield & Thomerson 1997:243 [ref. 22947], González Bencomo et al. 1997:159 [ref. 24960], Caruso 1998:193 [ref. 23489], Murdy 1998:129 [ref. 23380], Aguilera 1998:52 [ref. 24221], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:429 [ref. 24550] as broussonneti, Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:313 [ref. 25013], Schwartz 1999:284 [ref. 25307], Marín 2000:78 [ref. 26252], Camargo & Isaac 2001:142 [ref. 27639], Murdy & Hoese 2003:1795 [ref. 27111], Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:660 [ref. 27061], Moura et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:99 [ref. 27192], Ross & Rhode 2004:309 [ref. 27789] as broussonneti, Nelson et al. 2004:171 [ref. 27807], Boschung & Mayden 2004:629 [ref. 27995] as broussonetii and original genus as Gobius, McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:704 [ref. 28815], Van Tassell 2011:144 [ref. 31732], Page et al. 2013:177 [ref. 32708], Angulo et al. 2013:1009 [ref. 33194], DoNascimiento 2016:536 [ref. 34727] as broussonetti, Costa et al. 2017:46 [ref. 35684], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:345 [ref. 36407], Robins et al. 2018:412 [ref. 35886], Carvalho-Filho in Marceniuk et al. 2021:243 [ref. 38945], Angulo et al. 2023:37 [ref. 40676], Carvalho-Filho 2023:238 [ref. 40480] as broussoneti, Page et al. 2023:122 [ref. 40505], Trevisan & Bockmann 2023:95 [ref. 40697]). Current status: Valid as Gobioides broussonnetii Lacepède 1800. Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Georgia (U.S.A.) south to Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, and adjacent freshwater habitats. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

brunneus, Gobius Temminck [C. J.] & Schlegel [H.] 1845:142, Pl. 74 (fig. 2) [Fauna Japonica Parts 7-9; ref. 4373] Nagasaki Bay, Japan. Holotype (unique): RMNH PISC 1923. Type catalog: Boeseman 1947:123-124 [ref. 12876]. •Valid as Rhinogobius brunneus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845), but a valid subspecies brunneus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845) -- (Sheiko 1983:18 [ref. 37041]). •Valid as Ctenogobius brunneus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845) -- (Zheng 1989:347 [ref. 21202], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:483 [ref. 23876], Deng in Ding 1994:525 [ref. 21531], Zhu 1995:182 [ref. 25213], Cheng & Zhou 1997:380 [ref. 26385]). •Valid as Rhinogobius brunneus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845) -- (Hayashi in Masuda et al. 1984:269 [ref. 6441], Al-Hassan & Miller 1987:405 [ref. 22501], Masuda et al. 1989 [ref. 20457], Kim 1997:452 [ref. 24032], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:757 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:146 [ref. 23591], Chen & Miller 1998:219 [ref. 23576], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:13 [ref. 24670] as species and subspecies, Chen et al. 1999:45 [ref. 24092], Sakai et al. 2000:52 [ref. 24911], Matsuura et al. 2000:230 [ref. 26000], Pietsch et al. 2001:146 [ref. 25688], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:47 [ref. 26178], Kim & Park 2002:376 [ref. 25913], Choi et al. 2003:400, 664 [ref. 26218], Jang et al. 2003:120 [ref. 27681], Vasil'eva 2003:S53 [ref. 28444], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:234 [ref. 28183], Valil'eva 2007:695 [ref. 29425], Scharpf 2009:14 [ref. 30400], van Oijen et al. 2011:7 [ref. 31430], Suzuki et al. 2012:698 [ref. 31734], Kottelat 2013:424 [ref. 32989], Zhang et al. 2016:201 [ref. 34477], Takahashi & Okazaki 2017:[3] [ref. 35171], Suzuki et al. 2017:80 [ref. 35202], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:192 [ref. 35257] with question, Ali et al. 2018:338 [ref. 36183], Xia et al. 2018:560 [ref. 35887], Dyldin et al. 2020:93 [ref. 37569], Suzuki et al. 2020:24 [ref. 37412], Fu et al. 2021:9573 [ref. 39347], Hoese & Hammer 2021:110 [ref. 38350], Love et al. 2021:207 [ref. 39279], Larson 2022:171 [ref. 39971], Suzuki et al. 2022:28 [ref. 39148], Jamandre 2023:169 [ref. 40455], Page et al. 2023:124 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Rhinogobius brunneus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Western Pacific: Philippines and China north to Korea and Japan; established or reported from localized areas in U.S.A.; introduced in Persian Gulf. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

brunneus, Gobius Poey [F.] 1868:393 [Repertorio Fisico-Natural de la Isla de Cuba v. 2; ref. 3505] Havana, Cuba. Syntypes: MCZ 13110 (2). Type catalog: Howell Rivero 1938:214 [ref. 22926] with largest specimen in MCZ 13110 as holotype. Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Gobius brunneus Temminck & Schlegel 1845. •Synonym of Bathygobius soporator (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Tornabene et al. 2010:159, 163 [ref. 30990], Parenti 2021:104 [ref. 38603]). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Bathygobius soporator (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

brunnoides, Gobius (Glossogobius) Nichols [J. T.] 1951:6, Fig. 4 [American Museum Novitates No. 1539; ref. 12905] Nondugl, Wahgi Valley, Papua New Guinea, elevation 5200 feet. Holotype: AMNH 19468. Paratypes: AMNH 19469 (4). •Valid as Glossogobius brunnoides (Nichols 1951) -- (Allen 1991:180 [ref. 21090], Hoese & Allen 2015:214 [ref. 33880], Parenti 2021:160 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Glossogobius brunnoides (Nichols 1951). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Papua New Guinea endemic. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

buccatus, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:60 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] No locality. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-1362. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:28 [ref. 19958]. •Synonym of Caffrogobius nudiceps (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Parenti 2021:110 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:60 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Caffrogobius nudiceps (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

bucchichi, Gobius Steindachner [F.] 1870:627 [5], Pl. 2 (fig. 4) [Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 61 (1. Abth.); ref. 4218] Hvar=Lesina, Croatia, 43°10'N, 16°27'E, Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea). Lectotype: NMW 28783. Paralectotypes: (several) NMW 28784-90 (1 ea.), 28791-92 (2, 1); MSNG 12665 [ex NMW] (1); SMNS 2701 (1); ZMUO J1127 (1). Type catalog: Tortonese 1963:342 [ref. 10350], Pethon 1969:10 [ref. 19268], Fricke 1995:14 [ref. 28100], Fricke 2005:40 [ref. 29864]. On p. 5 of separate. Lectotype selected by Kovačić & Šanda 2016:11 [ref. 34173]. •Valid as Gobius bucchichi Steindachner 1870 -- (Miller 1973:485 [ref. 6888], Miller 1977:340 [ref. 41065], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1037 [ref. 13677], Brito & Miller 2001:266 [ref. 25096] as buchichii, Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:130 [ref. 26753], Vasil'eva 2003:S44 [ref. 28444], Golani 2005:56 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:103 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:153 [ref. 30517], Kovačić & Golani 2008:418 [ref. 33214], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:63 [ref. 36649], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:186 [ref. 31737], Schliewen 2011:217 [ref. 31738], Parin et al. 2015:481 [ref. 33547], Kovačić & Sanda 2016:1114 [ref. 34173], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2840 [ref. 34618], Carneiro et al. 2019:180 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:100 [ref. 36864], Bariche & Fricke 2020:71 [ref. 37515], Kovačić 2020:77 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:24 [ref. 37519], Manilo 2020:73 [ref. 37795], Abliazov et al. 2021:11 [ref. 38576], Golani 2021:73 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:40 [ref. 39014], Parenti 2021:175 [ref. 38603], Bilecenoğlu & Yokeş 2022:50 [ref. 39456], Kovačić et al. 2022: 53 [ref. 39303], Renoult et al. 2022:47 [ref. 39288], Kovačić et al. 2023:5 [ref. 40095]). Current status: Valid as Gobius bucchichi Steindachner 1870. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Central and eastern Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea. Habitat: marine.

burmeisteri, Gobius Kessler [K. F.] 1877:26, Pl. 2 (fig. 5) [The Aralo-Caspian Expedition; ref. 2597] Poti, Black Sea, Georgia, Eurasia. Holotype (unique): ZIN (not found in 1996). •Synonym of Mesogobius gymnotrachelus (Kessler 1857) -- (Berg 1949:1098 [ref. 20662]). •Synonym of Neogobius gymnotrachelus (Kessler 1857) -- (Miller 1973:502 [ref. 6888], Kottelat 1997:178 [ref. 22952], Vasil'eva 1998:139 [ref. 23591], Pinchuk et al. 2003:265 [ref. 27349], Vasil'eva 2003:S50 [ref. 28444]). •Synonym of Ponticola gymnotrachelus (Kessler 1857) -- (Parin et al. 2014:498 [ref. 33547]). •Synonym of Babka gymnotrachelus (Kessler 1857) -- (Neilson & Stepien 2009:97 [ref. 30487], Parenti 2021:68 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Babka gymnotrachelus (Kessler 1857). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

burtoni, Gobius O'Shaughnessy [A. W. E.] 1875:144 [1] [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 4) v. 15 (no. 86) (art. 19); ref. 18481] Fernando Póo Island [Bioco Island], Equatorial Guinea, Gulf of Guinea. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1863.4.16.9. On p. 1 of separate. •Synonym of Bathygobius soporator (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Maugé 1986:362 [ref. 6218]). •Valid as Bathygobius burtoni (O'Shaughnessy 1875) -- (Miller & Smith 1989:295 [ref. 25535], Miller 1990:925 [ref. 19376], Afonso et al. 1999:79 [ref. 25466], Wirtz et al. 2007:20, 39 [ref. 30263], Schliewen 2011:214 [ref. 31738], Félix et al. 2016:D [4] [ref. 34346], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2839 [ref. 34618], Rodríguez-Rey et al. 2017:11 [ref. 35433], Reiner 2019:257 [ref. 38139], Parenti 2021:99 [ref. 38603], Fermon et al. 2022:223 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Bathygobius burtoni (O'Shaughnessy 1875). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Ghana south to Gabon, including Bioko (Equatorial Guinea), and São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: brackish, marine.

bustamantei, Gobius Greeff [R.] 1882:37 [Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft zur Beförderung der Gesamten Naturwissenschaften zu Marburg 1882 (pt. 2) (no. 2); ref. 21732] São Tomé Island, Gulf of Guinea. Syntypes: NMH 12295-96 (3); ZMB 12009 (1); ZMH 8108-10 (1, 1, 1). Type catalog: Wilkens & Dohse 1993:420 [ref. 21161]. Original as Bustamentéi on p. 37, Bustamantéi on p. 38 (correct), named for Dr. de Bustamante. See Greeff 1884 [ref. 28781]. •Valid as Chonophorus bustamantei (Greeff 1882) -- (Maugé 1986:364 [ref. 6218]). •Synonym of Awaous lateristriga Duméril 1858 or 1861 -- (Watson 1996:10 [ref. 22211]). •Valid as Awaous bustamantei (Greeff 1882) -- (Harrison 1993:213 [ref. 22083], Harrison et al. 2007:521 [ref. 30083], Schliewen 2011:210 [ref. 31738], Félix et al. 2016:D [4] [ref. 34346]). Current status: Valid as Awaous bustamantei (Greeff 1882). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: West-central Africa: Gulf of Guinea islands [apparently not Cameroon]. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

bustamantei, Sicydium Greeff [R.] 1884:50 [Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft zur Beförderung der Gesamten Naturwissenschaften zu Marburg 1884 (pt. 2); ref. 28781] Säo Tomé Island, Gulf of Guinea. Syntypes: ZMH 19295 [ex 8381] (1), H 19296 [ex 8382] (1). Lectotype designation not researched; listed in Pezold et al. 2006:967 [ref. 28916], but that designation is Invalid. Greeff 1884 recognized that Gobius bustamantei Greeff 1882 consisted of two species; he retained the larger specimens as Gobius bustamanei and the smaller specimens were given the name Sicydium bustamantei. •Valid as Sicydium bustamantei Greeff 1884 -- (Maugé 1986:383 [ref. 6218] dated 1882, Pezold et al. 2006:972 [ref. 28916], Wirtz et al. 2007:40 [ref. 30263] dated 1882, Harrison et al. 2007:511 [ref. 30083], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2842 [ref. 34618] as bustamentei, Reiner 2019:266 [ref. 38139], Fermon et al. 2022:221 [ref. 39448] with question). Current status: Valid as Sicydium bustamantei Greeff 1884. Oxudercidae: Sicydiinae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Cameroon south to Gabon, including Bioko (Equatorial Guinea,) and São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

bynoensis, Gobius Richardson [J.] 1844:1, Pl. 1 (figs. 1-2) [Ichthyology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus & Terror v. 2 (2); ref. 3740] Coasts of Western Australia [actual Bynoe Harbour, Northern Territory]. Holotype (unique): BMNH 2012.11.8.5 (lost). Holotype lost (James Maclaine, personal communication, Feb. 2019). •Valid as Amblygobius bynoensis (Richardson 1844) -- (Larson & Williams 1997:367 [ref. 23967], Kuiter 1997:344 [ref. 25488], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:635 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:42 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3594 [ref. 26293], Allen & Adrim 2003:56 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S118 [ref. 27377], Adrim et al. 2004:126 [ref. 27715] with distribution change, Hoese & Larson 2006:1621 [ref. 29097], Larson et al. 2013:189 [ref. 32988], Parenti 2021:88 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Amblygobius bynoensis (Richardson 1844). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Andaman Sea and Indonesia east to Philippines, south to Western Australia. Habitat: marine.

caeruleopunctatus, Gobius Rüppell [W. P. E. S.] 1830:134 [Atlas zu der Reise im nördlichen Africa. Fische des Rothen Meeres; ref. 3843] Massawa, Eritrea, Red Sea. Lectotype: SMF 1936. Paralectotypes and Rüppell spec.: BMNH 1860.11.19.68-69 (2); NMW 29156-57 (1, 1); RMNH 1860 (1?), 1900 (1), 1901 (1?); SMF 4771-72 (2). Lectotype established by Dor 1984:242 [ref. 29757] if not designated earlier. •Valid as Cryptocentrus caeruleopunctatus (Rüppell 1830) -- (Goren 1979:28 [ref. 1852], Dor 1984:242 [ref. 29757], Goren & Dor 1994:64 [ref. 25356], Hoese & Larson 2004:169 [ref. 28074], Randall 2005:527 [ref. 28239], Hoese et al. 2011:168 [ref. 31450], Freinschlag & Patzner 2012:42 [ref. 31789], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[6] 244 [ref. 36492], Golani & Fricke 2018:150 [ref. 36273], Kovačić 2020:76 [ref. 37932], Golani 2021:73 [ref. 38303], Goren & Stern 2021:12 [ref. 38671], Kovačić et al. 2021:39 [ref. 39014], Parenti 2021:125 [ref. 38603], Ergüden et al. 2022:289 [ref. 39399], Kovačić et al. 2022: 47 [ref. 39303], Larson 2022:72 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:9 [ref. 40247], Kovačić et al. 2023:132 [ref. 40094]). Current status: Valid as Cryptocentrus caeruleopunctatus (Rüppell 1830). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden. Eastern Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: marine.

caeruleus, Gobius Lacepède [B. G. E.] (ex Commerson) 1800:537, 560 [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Lacepède) v. 2; ref. 2709] Réunion, western Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. No types preserved. Based on manuscript description by Commerson (Philibert Commerson, 1727-1773, French explorer and naturalist). Bauchot et al. 1991:55 [ref. 19958] indicated that two spellings were used: coeruleus on p. 537 and caeruleus on p. 560 and selected coeruleus, but CAS copy has only caeruleus. No types at MNHN: Bauchot et al. 1991:55 [ref. 19958]. Also appeared in Sonnini 1803:194, 232 (vol. 7) [ref. 30473]. •Valid as Sicyopterus caeruleus (Lacepède 1800) -- (Maugé 1986:384 [ref. 6218], Fricke 1999:521 [ref. 24106], Buden et al. 2001:6 [ref. 25496]). •Possibly the same as Sicyopterus laticeps (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Sparks & Nelson 2004:4 [ref. 27700] with author as Commerson). •Synonym of Sicyopterus lagocephalus (Pallas 1770) -- (Watson et al. 2000:13 [ref. 25138], Keith et al. 2015:102 [ref. 34328], Larson 2022:179 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Sicyopterus lagocephalus (Pallas 1770). Oxudercidae: Sicydiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

caffer, Gobius Günther [A.] 1874:453 [5] [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 4) v. 14 (no. 84) (art. 55); ref. 5753] Port Elizabeth, South Africa, western Indian Ocean. Syntypes: (2) BMNH 1871.4.21.17. •Valid as Caffrogobius caffer (Günther 1874) -- (Hoese 1986:783 [ref. 5670], Maugé 1986:362 [ref. 6218], Randall 1995:795 [ref. 22357], Goren 1996:7 [ref. 24415], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:395 [ref. 28072], Schliewen 2011:214 [ref. 31738], Parenti 2021:109 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Caffrogobius caffer (Günther 1874). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southeastern Atlantic and southwestern Indian Ocean: southern Africa. Habitat: marine.

calderae, Gobius Evermann [B. W.] & Seale [A.] 1906:511, Fig. 3 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 31 (no. 1491); ref. 15657] Caldera Bay, Zamboanga, Mindanao, Philippines. Holotype: USNM 55625 [not 53625]. Paratypes: (3) MCZ 36018 (1). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:128 [ref. 2676]. •Synonym of Istigobius ornatus (Rüppell 1830) -- (Murdy & Hoese 1985:9 [ref. 5237], Kottelat 2013:411 [ref. 32989], Parenti 2021:188 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Istigobius ornatus (Rüppell 1830). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

caledonicus, Gobius Sauvage [H.-E.] 1880:46 [7] [Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série) v. 4; ref. 3887] New Caledonia. Syntypes: MNHN A-1324 (2). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:28 [ref. 19958]. On p. 7 of separate. •Synonym of Bathygobius fuscus (Rüppell 1830) -- (Akihito & Meguro 1980:221 [ref. 6920], Fricke & Kulbicki 2006:349 [ref. 28867], Kottelat 2013:402 [ref. 32989], Parenti 2021:101 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Bathygobius fuscus (Rüppell 1830). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

callidus, Gobius Smith [J. L. B.] 1937:197 [Annals of the Natal Museum v. 8 (pt 2); ref. 6553] Bushman's River, Alicedale, Cape Province, South Africa. Holotype (unique): SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 305 [ex AMG]. Replacement name for Gobius gulosus Smith 1936, preoccupied by Gobius gulosus Girard 1858. •Valid as Glossogobius callidus (Smith 1937) -- (Hoese 1986:790 [ref. 5670], Maugé 1986:368 [ref. 6218], Skelton 1993:365 [ref. 24071], Skelton 2001:365 [ref. 27406], Schliewen 2011:217 [ref. 31738], Marshall 2011:266 [ref. 31755], Kramer et al. 2016:unnumbered p. [ref. 34331], Fricke et al. 2018:331 [ref. 35805], Parenti 2021:161 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:92 [ref. 39971]). Replacement Name. Current status: Valid as Glossogobius callidus (Smith 1937). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southeastern Atlantic, southwestern Indian Ocean: Namibia south to Cape of Goof Hope (South Africa), then north to East Africa (Malawi, Mozambique), east to Aldabra (Seychelles) and Madagascar. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

campbelli, Ctenogobius Jordan [D. S.] & Snyder [J. O.] 1901:62, Fig. 8 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 24 (no. 1244); ref. 2509] Wakanoura, Kii Province, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, Inland Sea. Holotype (unique): CAS-SU 6450. Type catalog: Koumans 1940:141 [ref. 2676], Böhlke 1953:110 [ref. 12291]. •Synonym of Gobius ornatus Rüppell 1830, but a valid subspecies -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:356 [ref. 7348]). •Valid as Istigobius campbelli (Jordan & Snyder 1901) -- (Murdy & McEachran 1982:645 [ref. 8437], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:252 [ref. 6441], Murdy & Hoese 1985:18 [ref. 5237], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:638 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1213 [ref. 25182], Sakai et al. 2001:112 [ref. 25693], Shimizu 2001:41 [ref. 25799], Nakabo 2002:1213 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:399, 661 [ref. 26218], Matsui et al. 2014:10 [ref. 33344], Kwun et al. 2017:143 [ref. 37287], Kim et al. 2020:169 [ref. 39118] as cambelli, Sonoyama et al. 2020:105 [ref. 37637], Parenti 2021:187 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Istigobius campbelli (Jordan & Snyder 1901). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Korea and Japan. Habitat: marine.

canalae, Gobius Sauvage [H.-E.] 1881:102 [2] [Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série) v. 5; ref. 18664] Canala, New Caledonia. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-3703. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:28 [ref. 19958]. On p. 2 of separate. •Synonym of Exyrias puntang (Bleeker 1851) -- (Murdy 1985:10 [ref. 19200], Fricke & Kulbicki 2006:350 [ref. 28867], Kottelat 2013:407 [ref. 32989], Parenti 2021:154 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Exyrias puntang (Bleeker 1851). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

canestrinii, Gobius Ninni [A. P.] 1883:276 [3], Pl. 15 (figs. 1-5) [Atti della Società Veneto-Trentina di Scienze Naturali. v. 8 (no. 2); ref. 18476] Venice lagoon, Italy [Venice, Italy; Jadro River near Split, Dalmatia, Croatia]. Lectotype: NMW 29943. Paralectotypes: (11) MZUF 5577-83 (7); NMW 28817-18 (1, 1), 29944-45 (2). Type catalog: Vanni 1991:227 [ref. 20099]. On p. 3 of separate. Lectotype selected by Ahnelt et al. 2021:46 [ref. 38522]. •Valid as Pomatoschistus canestrinii (Ninni 1883) -- (Miller 1973:507 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1069 [ref. 13677], Kottelat 1997:180 [ref. 22952], McKay & Miller 1997:1464 [ref. 24951], Pinchuk & Miller in Miller 2004:284 [ref. 27853], Huyse et al. 2004:327 [ref. 27956], Miller & Sanda 2008:262 [ref. 29469], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:586 [ref. 29996], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:66 [ref. 36649], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:187 [ref. 31737]as canestrini [sic], Freyhof 2011:284, 285 [ref. 31742], Ćaleta et al. 2015:78 [ref. 34877], Engin & Innal 2017:6 [ref. 35516], Lorenzoni et al. 2019:253 [ref. 37108], Ahnelt et al. 2021:47 [ref. 38522]). •Valid as Ninnigobius canestrinii (Ninni 1883) -- (Geiger et al. 2014:Table S2 [ref. 37408], Thacker et al. 2018:[8] [ref. 36082], Ćaleta et al. 2019:182 [ref. 37026], Kovačić 2020:78 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:25 [ref. 37519], Tutman et al. 2020:7 [ref. 38008], Kovačić et al. 2021:42 [ref. 39014]). Current status: Valid as Ninnigobius canestrinii (Ninni 1883). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Southern Europe: Adriatic basin (Italy and possibly west Croatia). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

canina, Umbra Károli [J.] 1882:188 [Természetrajzi Füzetek, Budapest v. 5 (no. 2) (for 1881); ref. 18378] Lake Fertö, Pest, Lake Balaton, Komadi, Bodrogköz, Hungary and Vienna, Austria. Name given as Umbra canina (Marsili) in reference to Gobius caninus of Marsili 1726 (Danubius Pannonico-Mysicus, Tom. 4). •Synonym of Umbra krameri Walbaum 1792 -- (Berg 1948:456 [ref. 12882], Kottelat 1997:96 [ref. 22952]). Current status: Synonym of Umbra krameri Walbaum 1792. Umbridae. Habitat: freshwater.

caninoides, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1852:274 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 3 (no. 2); ref. 16825] Ambon Island, Molucca Islands, Indonesia. Syntypes: (3) RMNH 4544 (2 or 3 of 6). Original as caninoïdes. •Valid as Oplopomus caninoides (Bleeker 1852) -- (Randall & Goren 1993:15 [ref. 21131], Krishnan & Mishra 1994:297 [ref. 24014], Larson & Williams 1997:369 [ref. 23967], Iwata et al. 1998:117 [ref. 23379], Suzuki et al. 1999:4 [ref. 24395], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:639 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1195 [ref. 25182], Larson & Murdy 2001:3598 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1195 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:59 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S119 [ref. 27377], Randall 2005:543 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Larson 2006:1668 [ref. 29097], Shibukawa 2009:280 [ref. 30449], Allen & Erdmann 2012:983 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:202 [ref. 32988], Prokofiev 2016:648 [ref. 35020], Motomura et al. 2017:199 [ref. 35490], Larson 2022:117 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Valid as Oplopomus caninoides (Bleeker 1852). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Persian Gulf, Madagascar and Maldives east to Solomon Islands, north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.

caninus, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:86 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Java, Indonesia. Syntypes: MNHN A-1369 (1), 7193 to 7194 (1, 1); RMNH 1867 (1). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:28 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Gobius caninus Valenciennes 1837 -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:356 [ref. 7348]). •Valid as Creisson caninus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Endruweit 2024:77 [ref. 41040]). •Valid as Acentrogobius caninus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Maugé 1986:358 [ref. 6218], Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:286 [ref. 26639] with authors as Cuvier & Valenciennes, Ataur Rahman 1989:309 [ref. 24860], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:476 [ref. 23876], Kottelat et al. 1993:141 [ref. 23448], Randall 1995:795 [ref. 22357], Rainboth 1996:197 [ref. 22772], Larson & Williams 1997:367 [ref. 23967], Yoshigou & Yoshino 1999:4 [ref. 24397], Johnson 1999:748 [ref. 25471], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:635 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1243 [ref. 25182], Kottelat 2001:60 [ref. 25482], Sakai et al. 2001:108 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:42 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3594 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1243 [ref. 26193], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S118 [ref. 27377], Ataur Rahman 2003:336 [ref. 31338], Hoese & Larson 2006:1616 [ref. 29097], Larson et al. 2008:145 [ref. 29532], Shibukawa 2009:258 [ref. 30449], Allen & Erdmann 2012:953 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:188 [ref. 32988], Yoshida et al. 2013:189 [ref. 34464], Allen 2015:7 [ref. 33699], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2015:78 [ref. 34319], Prokofiev 2016:636 [ref. 35020], Allen 2017:108 [ref. 35601], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:254 [ref. 36460], Parenti 2021:78 [ref. 38603], Taki et al. 2021:435 [ref. 39830], Thu & Thao 2023:640 [ref. 40499]). Current status: Valid as Acentrogobius caninus (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Sri Lanka east to Vietnam, Caroline Islands and Fiji, north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to northern Australia. Habitat: brackish, marine.

capensis, Gobius Castelnau [F. L.] 1861:55 [Mémoire sur les poissons de l'Afrique australe; ref. 767] Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Syntypes: MNHN A-1376 (2). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:28 [ref. 19958]. •Synonym of Caffrogobius nudiceps (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Maugé 1986:363 [ref. 6218], Miller 1990:927 [ref. 19376], Goren 1996:14 [ref. 24415], Parenti 2021:110 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:60 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Caffrogobius nudiceps (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: 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.

capito, Gobius Cuvier [G.] 1829:243 [Le Règne Animal (Edition 2) v. 2; ref. 995] Available from brief description and reference to "Gesner. 396." Usually dated to Valenciennes 1837, which is based on specimens. Also in Griffith & Smith 1834:Pl. 38 (fig. 1) (opp. p. 238) [ref. 1908]. Current status: Synonym of Gobius. Gobiidae: Gobiinae.

capito, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:21 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Martigues and Naples, Italy, Mediterranean Sea. Syntypes: MNHN A-1162 (1) Martiques, A-1167 (1) Naples. See Gobius capito Cuvier 1829. Previously appeared in Griffith & Smith 1834:Pl. 38 (fig. 1) (opp. p. 238) [ref. 1908] (available from figure caption). •Valid as Gobius capito Valenciennes 1837 -- (Herrera 1896:61 [ref. 39336]). •Synonym of Gobius cobitis Pallas 1814 -- (Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1038 [ref. 13677]). •Synonym of Gobius paganellus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Miller 1973:487 [ref. 6888], Miller 1990:937 [ref. 19376], Vasil'eva 2003:S45 [ref. 28444], Parin et al. 2014:483 [ref. 33547], Parenti 2021:180 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Gobius paganellus Linnaeus 1758. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

capitonellus, Gobius Kessler [K. F.] 1874:228 [38] [Trudy St.-Peterburgskogo Obscestva Estestvoispytatelej = Travaux de la Société des Naturalistes de St. Pétersbourg. v. 5; ref. 18397] Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine. Syntypes: ZIN 2127 (2). •Synonym of Gobius paganellus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Miller 1973:487 [ref. 6888], Miller 1990:937 [ref. 19376], Vasil'eva 2003:S45 [ref. 28444], Parin et al. 2014:483 [ref. 33547], Parenti 2021:180 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Gobius paganellus Linnaeus 1758. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

caroliniensis, Gobius Gill [T. N.] 1863:268 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 15; ref. 1691] Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A. Holotype (unique): USNM (apparently lost). •Synonym of Bathygobius soporator (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Tornabene et al. 2010:159 [ref. 30990], Parenti 2021:104 [ref. 38603]) Current status: Synonym of Bathygobius soporator (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

casamancus, Gobius Rochebrune [A. T. de] 1880:163 [Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série) v. 4; ref. 3790] Casamance River, Senegal, western Africa. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:55 [ref. 19958] as none at MNHN. •Valid as Bathygobius casamancus (Rochebrune 1880) -- (Maugé 1986:360 [ref. 6218], Miller & Smith 1989:299 [ref. 25535], Miller 1990:925 [ref. 19376], Harrison & Miller in Lévêque et al. 1992:814 [ref. 21590], Brito & Miller 2001:254 [ref. 25096], Harrison et al. 2007:531 [ref. 30083], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:184 [ref. 31737], Schliewen 2011:214 [ref. 31738], Wirtz et al. 2013:132 [ref. 32972], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2839 [ref. 34618], Rodríguez-Rey et al. 2017:11 [ref. 35433], Skelton 2019:228 [ref. 36564], Parenti 2021:99 [ref. 38603], Fermon et al. 2022:223 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Bathygobius casamancus (Rochebrune 1880). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Mauritania south to Angola, including Cape Verde Islands and islands of the Gulf of Guinea. Habitat: brackish, marine.

caspius, Gobius Eichwald [C. E. von] 1831:76 [Zoologia specialis quam expositis animalibus tum vivis Pars posterior [3]; ref. 5562] Caspian Sea. No types known. Also appeared as new in Eichward 1838:105 [ref. 34622]. •Valid as Neogobius caspius (Eichwald 1831) -- (Berg 1949:1094 [ref. 20662], Coad 1995:31 [ref. 23608], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:755 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:138 [ref. 23591], Coad 1998:103 [ref. 23869], Pinchuk & Miller 2003:173 [ref. 27345], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:229 [ref. 28183], Neilson & Stepien 2009:96 [ref. 30487], Esmaeili et al. 2010:377 [ref. 33391], Freyhof 2011:284 [ref. 31742], Stepien & Neilson 2013:2 [ref. 35325], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:899 [ref. 34062], Davoodi & Rahimian 2016:82 [ref. 34954], Esmaeili et al. 2017:83 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:65 [ref. 36089], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:236 [ref. 37983], Parenti 2021:73 [ref. 38603], Zarei et al. 2021:[6] [ref. 38262], Zarei et al. 2022:175 [ref. 39576], Çiçek et al. 2024:307 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Neogobius caspius (Eichwald 1831). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eurasia: Caspian Sea basin. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

castaneus, Gobius O'Shaughnessy [A. W. E.] 1875:145 [2] [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 4) v. 15 (no. 86) (art. 19); ref. 18481] Nagasaki, Japan. Syntypes: BMNH 1870.12.2.1-2 (2). On p. 2 of separate. •Valid as Chloea castanea (O'Shaughnessy 1975) -- (Berg 1949:1072 [ref. 20662], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:384 [ref. 7348]). •Synonym of Chaenogobius annularis Gill 1859 -- (Okada 1961:676 [ref. 6363]). •Valid as Chaenogobius castaneus (O'Shaughnessy 1875) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:276 [ref. 6441], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:613 [ref. 25598], Takahashi 1996:2 [ref. 24363], Kim 1997:432 [ref. 24032], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:754 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:132 [ref. 23591], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:13 [ref. 24670], Sato et al. 1998:41 [ref. 24972], Matsuura et al. 2000:221 [ref. 26000], Kim & Park 2002:356 [ref. 25913], Choi et al. 2003:398, 658 [ref. 26218], Stevenson 2002:272 [ref. 26489]). •Valid as Gymnogobius castaneus (O'Shaughnessy 1875) -- (Nakabo 2000:1200 [ref. 25182], Pietsch et al. 2001:145 [ref. 25688], Sakai et al. 2001:112 [ref. 25693], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:47 [ref. 26178], Nakabo 2002:1200 [ref. 26193], Yonezawa & Shinomiya 2002:2 [ref. 26563], Vasil'eva 2003:S45 [ref. 28444], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:222 [ref. 28183], Zhao et al. 2007:454 [ref. 29515], Shedko & Chereshnev 2005:441 [ref. 30089] in subgenus Chloea, Parin et al. 2014:485 [ref. 33547], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:189 [ref. 35257], Dyldin et al. 2021:35 [ref. 38804], Ito et al. 2021:[9] [ref. 38897]). Current status: Valid as Gymnogobius castaneus (O'Shaughnessy 1875). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Sea of Japan, Yellow Sea and Okhotsk Sea (China, Korea, Japan, Russia). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

castelnaui, Gobius Macleay [W.] 1881:598 [Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales v. 5 (pt 4); ref. 2869] Hobson's Bay, Australia. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-1884. Based on a specimen originally identified as Gobius frenatus by Castelnau 1872:123 [ref. 757]. •Synonym of Arenigobius bifrenatus (Kner 1865) -- (Gomon et al. 1994:784 [ref. 22532], Hoese & Larson 2006:1624 [ref. 29097], Kuiter 2018:86 [ref. 36369], Parenti 2021:94 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Arenigobius bifrenatus (Kner 1865). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

catebus, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:76 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Rangoon, Myanmar; Bengal; Puducherry; Malabar. Syntypes: MNHN A-1390 (1, described specimen) Rangoon, A-1907 (4) Bengal, A-2538 (1) Puducherry, 7199 (2) Malabar; ?ZMB 2065 (1). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:29 [ref. 19958]. •Synonym of Glossogobius giuris (Hamilton 1822) -- (Menon 1999:294 [ref. 24904], Kottelat 2013:407 [ref. 32989], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:232 [ref. 37983], Parenti 2021:162 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:93 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Glossogobius giuris (Hamilton 1822). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

catulus, Gobius Girard [C. F.] 1858:169 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 10; ref. 1813] St. Joseph Island, Texas, U.S.A. Syntypes: USNM 648 and 6612 (2). See also Girard 1859:26, Pl. 12 (figs. 9-10) [ref. 13405]. •Synonym of Bathygobius soporator (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Tornabene et al. 2010:159, 163 [ref. 30990], Parenti 2021:104 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Bathygobius soporator (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

caucasicus, Pomatoschistus Berg [L. S.] (ex Kavraisky) 1916:409 [Les Poissons des eaux douces de la Russie; ref. 277] Swamp near Batum and Inkit Lake near Pitzunda, Georgia (Eurasia). Syntypes: BMNH 1896.3.28.26-28 [ex Tiflis Mus.] (3) Lake Temirgorje, Georgia, Eurasia. Appeared first as Gobius caucasicus Kavraiskii [Kawrajsky] in Radde 1899, not available. Syntypes in BMNH are from a locality mentioned under Gobius caucasicus Kavraiskii in Radde 1899. Name usually seen as Kravraisky. •Valid as Pomatoschistus caucasicus Berg 1916 -- (Berg 1949:1065 [ref. 20662]). •Valid as Knipowitschia caucasica (Berg 1916) -- (Miller 1973:497 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1047 [ref. 13677], Economidis & Miller 1990:152 [ref. 16710], Coad 1995:30 [ref. 23608], Ahnelt et al. 1995:49 [ref. 22315], Bianco et al. 1996:53 [ref. 26724], Kottelat 1997:177 [ref. 22952], McKay & Miller 1997:1464 [ref. 24951], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:754 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:135 [ref. 23591], Coad 1998:103 [ref. 23869], Neer et al. 1999:1336 [ref. 39968], Vasil'eva & Kuga 2001:159 [ref. 25346], Gabrielyan 2001:28 [ref. 25867], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:47 [ref. 26178], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:133 [ref. 26753], Kovačić & Pallaoro 2003:131 [ref. 27236], Vasil'eva 2003:S47 [ref. 28444], Miller et al. in Miller 2004:343 [ref. 27853], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:224 [ref. 28183], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:182 [ref. 28369], Kovačić 2005:278 [ref. 28382], Fricke et al. 2007:104 [ref. 29533], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:569 [ref. 29996], Vasil'eva 2007:158 [ref. 30517], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:172 [ref. 31251], Miller 2009:1505 [ref. 30234], Esmaeili et al. 2010:377 [ref. 33391], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:65 [ref. 36649], Ahnelt 2011:26 [ref. 31650], Freyhof 2011:283 [ref. 31742], Halasi-Kovács et al. 2011:257 [ref. 31756], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:186 [ref. 31737], Parin et al. 2014:489 [ref. 33547], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:898 [ref. 34062], Barbieri et al. 2015:107 [ref. 35029], Çiçek et al. 2015:152 [ref. 35151], Vukić et al. 2016:368 [ref. 34392], Ahnelt 2016:9195 [ref. 34845], Esmaeili et al. 2017:83 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:64 [ref. 36089], Thacker et al. 2018:[8] [ref. 36082], Artüz & Fricke 2019:559 [ref. 36612], Özuluğ & Saç 2019:27 [ref. 36599], Çiçek et al. 2020:256 [ref. 37644], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:235 [ref. 37983], Kovačić 2020:77 [ref. 37932], Kuljanishvili et al. 2020:[6] [ref. 37535], Manilo 2020:74 [ref. 37795], Abliazov et al. 2021:11 [ref. 38576], Kovačić et al. 2021:41 [ref. 39014], Zarei et al. 2021:[7] [ref. 38262], Zarei et al. 2022:171 [ref. 39576], Çiçek et al. 2023:429 [ref. 40625], Çiçek et al. 2023:152 [ref. 40728], Kovačić et al. 2023:221 [ref. 40561], Çiçek et al. 2024:317 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Knipowitschia caucasica (Berg 1916). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; Sea of Azov; Caspian Sea; Aral Sea. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

caudatus, Gobius Castelnau [F. L.] 1873:47 [Proceedings of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, Melbourne v. 2; ref. 758] Victoria market, Australia. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-4559 (half skin). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:29 [ref. 19958]. •Synonym of Arenigobius bifrenatus (Kner 1865) -- (Gomon et al. 1994:784 [ref. 22532], Hoese & Larson 2006:1624 [ref. 29097], Kuiter 2018:86 [ref. 36369], Parenti 2021:94 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Arenigobius bifrenatus (Kner 1865). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, 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.

cavifrons, Gobius Weber [M.] 1909:152 [Notes from the Leyden Museum v. 31 (note 4); ref. 4600] Sula Takomi, Ternate, Molucca Islands, Indonesia. Lectotype: ZMA 112616. Paralectotypes: ZMA 123468 [ex 112616] (38). Type catalog: Nijssen et al. 1982:98 [ref. 19236]. Lectotype selected by Larson 2001:108 [ref. 25522]. •Valid as Mugilogobius cavifrons (Weber 1909) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:268 [ref. 6441], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:638 [ref. 25122], Larson 2001:102 [ref. 25522], Larson & Murdy 2001:3601 [ref. 26293], Myers & Donaldson 2003:642 [ref. 27495], Larson & Pidgeon 2004:197 [ref. 28107], Greenfield & Randall 2004:529 [ref. 28175], Mundy 2005:477 [ref. 28379], Randall 2007:406 [ref. 30952], Ho & Shao 2011: 57 [ref. 31432], Kottelat 2013:413 [ref. 32989], Huang et al. 2016:14 [ref. 34500], Koeda et al. 2016:93 [ref. 35333], Taki et al. 2021:452 [ref. 39830]). Current status: Valid as Mugilogobius cavifrons (Weber 1909). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Western Pacific: Indonesia east to Vietnam and Kosrae (Micronesia), north to southern Japan, south to Papua New Guinea; introduced to Hawaiian Islands. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

celebius, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:74 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Sulawesi, Indonesia. Syntypes: MNHN A-1385 (2 or 1), 2731 (2 or 1). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:29 [ref. 19958]. •Synonym of Glossogobius giuris (Hamilton 1822) -- (Menon 1999:294 [ref. 24904]). •Valid as Glossogobius celebius (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Roberts 1978:63 [ref. 8886], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:274 [ref. 6441], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:610 [ref. 25598], Hoese & Allen 1990:118 [ref. 19360], Allen 1991:180 [ref. 21090], Kottelat et al. 1993:145 [ref. 23448], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:637 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1202 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:61 [ref. 25191], Buden et al. 2001:7 [ref. 25496], Larson & Murdy 2001:3597 [ref. 26293], Sakai et al. 2001:112 [ref. 25693], Unmack 2001:1064 [ref. 25797], Nakabo 2002:1202 [ref. 26193], Larson & Pidgeon 2004:197 [ref. 28107], Parenti & Lim 2005:194 [ref. 28285], Hoese & Larson 2006:1653 [ref. 29097], Shao et al. 2008:261 [ref. 29952], Hoese & Allen 2009:6 [ref. 29998], Hoese & Allen 2012:269, 270 [ref. 31974], Kottelat 2013:407 [ref. 32989], Hoese & Allen 2015:214 [ref. 33880], Miesen et al. 2016:93 [ref. 34492], Koeda et al. 2016:92 [ref. 35333], Parenti 2021:161 [ref. 38603], Jamandre 2023:168 [ref. 40455]). Current status: Valid as Glossogobius celebius (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southeast Asia, East Asia: Sulawesi (Indonesia), Philippines and southern Japan. Habitat: freshwater.

cephalarges, Gobius Pallas [P. S.] 1814:155 [Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica v. 3; ref. 3351] Feodosiya [Feodosia], Crimea, Ukraine. No types known. •Valid as Neogobius cephalarges (Pallas 1814) -- (Berg 1949:1087 [ref. 20662], Miller 1973:502 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1058 [ref. 13677], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:182 [ref. 28369], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:187 [ref. 31737]). •Synonym of Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas 1814) -- (Kottelat 1997:178 [ref. 22952], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:134 [ref. 26753], Pinchuk et al. 2003:293 [ref. 27349], Vasil'eva 2003:S50 [ref. 28444], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:231 [ref. 28183], Neilson & Stepien 2009:96 [ref. 30487], Parin et al. 2014:494 [ref. 33547], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:237 [ref. 37983], Parenti 2021:73 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas 1814). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

cephalus, Gobius Bonnaterre [J. P.] (ex Bloch) 1788:65 [Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie; ref. 4940] Antilles. Unnecessary replacement name for Gobius plumieri Bloch 1786. •Synonym of Sicydium plumieri (Bloch 1786). Current status: Synonym of Sicydium plumieri (Bloch 1786). Oxudercidae: Sicydiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

ceramensis, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1853:704 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 3 (no. 5); ref. 16833] Wahai, Ceram, Indonesia. Syntypes: (4) RMNH 6264 (same of 4). •Synonym of Gobiodon rivulatus (Rüppell 1830) -- (Maugé 1986:370 [ref. 6218]). •Valid as Gobiodon ceramensis (Bleeker 1853) -- (Dor 1984:246 [ref. 29757], Harold & Winterbottom 1995:687 [ref. 21923], Harold & Winterbottom 1999:56 [ref. 23701], Munday et al. 1999:54 [ref. 24284], Larson & Murdy 2001:3597 [ref. 26293], Allen & Adrim 2003:58 [ref. 26830], Hoese & Larson 2006:1655 [ref. 29097], Harold et al. 2008:120 [ref. 29450], Suzuku et al. 2012:59 [ref. 32027] with question, Allen & Erdmann 2012:897 [ref. 31980], Shibukawa et al. 2013:144 [ref. 32951], Fricke et al. 2014:166 [ref. 33932], Parenti 2021:168 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Gobiodon ceramensis (Bleeker 1853). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Western Pacific: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Queensland (Australia). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

changua, Gobius Hamilton [F.] 1822:41, 365, Pl. 5 (fig. 10) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Ganges River estuaries, India. No types known. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 27 [ref. 37532]. •Synonym of Pseudapocryptes lanceolatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Murdy 1989:47 [ref. 13628]). •Synonym of Pseudapocryptes elongatus (Cuvier 1816) -- (Ataur Rahman 2003:317 [ref. 31338], Kottelat 2013:421 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Pseudapocryptes elongatus (Cuvier 1816). Oxudercidae: Oxudercinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

chefuensis, Gobius Wu [H.-W.] & Wang [K. F.] 1931:6, Fig. 4 [Contributions from the Biological Laboratory of the Science Society of China. (Zoological Series) v. 8 (no. 1); ref. 16407] Chefoo, Shantung Province, China. Syntypes: Mus. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China 7279, 7445. •Synonym of Gobius pflaumii Bleeker 1853 -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:359 [ref. 7348] as pflaumi). •Synonym of Acentrogobius pflaumii (Bleeker 1853) -- (Parenti 2021:81 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Acentrogobius pflaumii (Bleeker 1853). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

chengtuensis, Gobius Chang [H.-W.] 1944:59 [Sinensia v. 15 (nos 1-6); ref. 5136] Chengtu and Omei, western China. Syntypes: ? Chang pers. coll. 1609 (1), 1974 (1), 1995 (1), 3807 (1), probably lost. •Valid as Ctenogobius chengtuensis (Chang 1944) -- (Deng in Ding 1994:529 [ref. 21531], Zhu 1995:183 [ref. 25213]). •Synonym of Pseudorhinogobius szechuanensis (Tchang 1939) -- (Endruweit 2024:146 [ref. 41040]). •Synonym of Rhinogobius szechuanensis (Tchang 1939) -- (Suzuki et al. 2017:81 [ref. 35202], Guo 2021:878 [ref. 38618], Pezold 2022:68 [ref. 39351]). Current status: Synonym of Rhinogobius szechuanensis (Tchang 1939). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater.

cheni, Gobius Nichols [J. T.] 1931:1 [American Museum Novitates No. 499; ref. 16311] Hokou (Chaoshan), northeastern Kiangsi Province, China. Holotype: AMNH 9694. Paratypes: AMNH 11671 (2). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:123 [ref. 2676]. •Valid as Pseudorhinogobius cheni (Nichols 1931) -- (Endruweit 2024:130 [ref. 41040]). •Valid as Rhinogobius cheni (Nichols 1931) -- (Chen et al. 2008:341 [ref. 29895], Esmaeili et al. 2010:378 [ref. 33391], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:900 [ref. 34062], Huang et al. 2016:[8] [ref. 34339], Takahashi & Okazaki 2017:[2] [ref. 35171], Suzuki et al. 2017:81 [ref. 35202], Çiçek et al. 2023:54 [ref. 40326], Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2023:34 [ref. 40667], Çiçek et al. 2024:320 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Rhinogobius cheni (Nichols 1931). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: East Asia: middle Yangtze River basin, Jiangxi Province (China). Introduced in Iran. Habitat: freshwater.

chilkensis, Gobius Jenkins [J. T.] 1910:137, Pl. 6 (fig. 2) [Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) v. 5 (pt 2) (art. 12); ref. 14478] Lake Chilka, Gopkuda Island, India. Syntypes: (12). •Synonym of Stigmatogobius javanicus (Bleeker 1856) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:947 [ref. 20764]). •Species inquirenda in Pseudogobius -- (Kottelat 2013:422 [ref. 32989]). •Possibly a synonym of Pseudogobius melanosticta (Day 1876) -- (Larson & Hammer 2021:47 [ref. 38276]). Current status: Uncertain as Pseudogobius melanosticta (Day 1876). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

chilo, Gobius Pallas [P. S.] 1814:156 [Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica v. 3; ref. 3351] Feodosiya [Feodosia], Ukraine. No types known. •Synonym of Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas 1814) -- (Berg 1949:1083 [ref. 20662], Miller 1973:503 [ref. 6888], Vasil'eva 1998:140 [ref. 23591], Pinchuk et al. 2003:293 [ref. 27349], Vasil'eva 2003:S50 [ref. 28444], Neilson & Stepien 2009:96 [ref. 30487], Parin et al. 2014:494 [ref. 33547], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:237 [ref. 37983], Parenti 2021:73 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas 1814). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

chiloensis, Gobius Guichenot [A.] 1848:293, Pl. 6 bis (fig. 1) [Fauna Chilena.... in Gay.; ref. 1939] Isla de Chiloé, near San Carlos, Chile. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:55 [ref. 19958] as probably a Mugiloididae or Notothenioidei. •Valid as Heterogobius chiloensis (Guichenot 1848) -- (Pequeño 1989:66 [ref. 14125]). Current status: Valid as Heterogobius chiloensis (Guichenot 1848). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Chile. Habitat: marine.

chiquita, Gobius Jenkins [O. P.] & Evermann [B. W.] 1889:146 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 11 (no. 698); ref. 2342] Guaymas, Sonora, western Mexico. Holotype: USNM 39634. Paratypes: (6). •Valid as Gobiosoma chiquita (Jenkins & Evermann 1889) -- (Allen & Robertson 1994:264 [ref. 22193], Hoese in Fischer et al. 1995:1135 [ref. 22829], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:171 [ref. 24545], Thomson et al. 2000:231 [ref. 25640], Rüber et al. 2003:1597 [ref. 26969], Nelson et al. 2004:171 [ref. 27807], Van Tassell 2011:154 [ref. 31732], Page et al. 2013:177 [ref. 32708], Tornabene & Van Tassell 2014:23 [ref. 33167], Page et al. 2023:122 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Gobiosoma chiquita (Jenkins & Evermann 1889). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Easten Pacific: Gulf of California (Mexico). Habitat: brackish, marine.

chlorostigma, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1849:27 [Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. v. 22 [6]; ref. 319] Jakarta, Surabaya, Kammal, Java, Indonesia. Syntypes: RMNH 6177 (some of 28). Appeared without distinguishing features in list in Bleeker 1849:5 [ref. 320]. •Synonym of Acentrogobius viridipunctatus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Hoese & Larson 2006:1617 [ref. 29097], Kottelat 2013:398 [ref. 32989], Parenti 2021:82 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Acentrogobius viridipunctatus (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

chlorostigmatoides, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1849:26 [Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. v. 22 [6]; ref. 319] Madura Straits near Surabaya and Kammal, Java, Indonesia. Syntypes: RMNH 6168 (some or all of 12 and holotype of Gobius phaiomelas). Appeared without distinguishing features in list in Bleeker 1849:5 [ref. 320]. •Synonym of Aulopareia unicolor (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Kottelat et al. 1993:142 [ref. 23448]). •Valid as Acentrogobius chlorostigmatoides (Bleeker 1849) -- (Zheng 1989:347 [ref. 21202], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:478 [ref. 23876], Rainboth 1996:197 [ref. 22772], Thu & Thao 2023:642 [ref. 40499] as chlosotigmatoides). •Valid as Creisson chlorostigmatoides (Bleeker 1849) -- (Chen et al. 1996:2 [ref. 22533]). •Synonym of Aulopareia unicolor (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Kottelat et al. 1993:142 [ref. 23448], Kottelat 2013:400 [ref. 32989], Larson & Jaafar 2022:508 [ref. 39363], Parenti 2021:97 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Aulopareia unicolor (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish.

chuno, Gobius Hamilton [F.] 1822:53, 366 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Botanical Garden of Calcutta, Ganges River estuary, India. No types known. Information on type locality see Britz 2019:38 [ref. 37532]. Hamilton's original, unpublished illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 34 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Gobiopterus chuno (Hamilton 1822) -- (Ataur Rahman 1989:310 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:967 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:145 [ref. 23448], Rainboth 1996:204 [ref. 22772], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:638 [ref. 25122], Freyhof et al. 2000:97 [ref. 25184], Kottelat 2001:155 [ref. 25780], Larson & Murdy 2001:3601 [ref. 26293], Khan 2003:10 [ref. 27710], Ataur Rahman 2003:336 [ref. 31338], Tan & Lim 2004:111 [ref. 27716], Ott 2011:73 [ref. 32266], Kottelat 2013:410 [ref. 32989], Kottelat 2015:48 [ref. 33971], Taki et al. 2021:448 [ref. 39830]). Current status: Valid as Gobiopterus chuno (Hamilton 1822). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: South and southeast Asia: India to the Mekong River basin, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

circumspectus, Gobius Macleay [W.] 1883:267 [Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales v. 8 (pt 2); ref. 17587] Fresh water of Milne Bay, New Guinea. Holotype (unique): AMS I.9186. Type catalog: Koumans 1940:163 [ref. 2676]. •Valid as Astovelus circumspectus (Macleay 1883) -- (Endruweit 2024:76 [ref. 41040]). •Valid as Glossogobius circumspectus (Macleay 1883) -- (Allen & Swainston 1988:134 [ref. 25477], Kottelat et al. 1993:145 [ref. 23448], Allen 1997:216 [ref. 23977], Larson & Williams 1997:368 [ref. 23967], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:637 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1201 [ref. 25182], Larson & Murdy 2001:3597 [ref. 26293], Sakai et al. 2001:112 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Allen et al. 2002:277 [ref. 25930], Nakabo 2002:1201 [ref. 26193], Hoese & Larson 2006:1653 [ref. 29097], Larson et al. 2008:149 [ref. 29532], Motomura et al. 2010:212 [ref. 31256], Hoese & Allen 2012:269 [ref. 31974], Larson et al. 2013:198 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:165 [ref. 33932], Hoese & Allen 2015:214 [ref. 33880], Prokofiev 2016:646 [ref. 35020], Pusey et al. 2017:75 [ref. 35250], Hoese & Hammer 2021:111 [ref. 38350], Parenti 2021:161 [ref. 38603], Koreeda & Motomura 2022:8 [ref. 39907], Furuhashi et al. 2023:28 [ref. 40140], Jamandre 2023:168 [ref. 40455]). Current status: Valid as Glossogobius circumspectus (Macleay 1883). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southeastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Malaysia and Indonesia east to Philippines and New Guinea, north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to northern Australia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

citrina, Gobius ophiocephalus var. Ninni [A. P.] 1938:154 [Memoria, Comitato Talassografico Italiano No. 242; ref. 18478] Sea of Marmara (Mediterranean Sea). No types known. •Synonym of Zosterisessor ophiocephalus (Pallas 1814) -- (Miller 1973:514 [ref. 6888], Kottelat 1997:181 [ref. 22952], Pinchuk et al. in Miller 2004:5 [ref. 27853]). •Synonym of Gobius ophiocephalus Pallas 1814 -- (Parenti 2021:179 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Gobius ophiocephalus Pallas 1814. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

citrinus, Gobius Rüppell [W. P. E. S.] 1838:139, Pl. 32 (fig. 4) [Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig. Fische des Rothen Meeres; ref. 3844] Massawa, Eritrea, Red Sea. Syntypes: SMF 1873 (6). •Valid as Gobiodon citrinus (Rüppell 1838) -- (Dor 1984:246 [ref. 29757], Yoshino & Yamamoto in Masuda et al. 1984:265 [ref. 6441], Hoese 1986:791 [ref. 5670], Randall et al. 1990:402 [ref. 15987], Randall & Goren 1993:14 [ref. 21131], Goren & Dor 1994:64 [ref. 25356], Harold & Winterbottom 1995:687 [ref. 21923], Randall 1995:337 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:214 [ref. 23922], Randall et al. 1997:402 [ref. 25919], Harold & Winterbottom 1999:56 [ref. 23701], Myers 1999:255 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:514 [ref. 24106], Munday et al. 1999:54 [ref. 24284], Allen 2000:93 [ref. 37268], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:638 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3597 [ref. 26293], Thacker & Cole 2002:840 [ref. 26548], Allen & Adrim 2003:59 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S119 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:644 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:27 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:537 [ref. 28239], Herler & Hilgers 2005:115 [ref. 28528], Hoese & Larson 2006:1656 [ref. 29097], Harold et al. 2008:120 [ref. 29450], Larson et al. 2008:149 [ref. 29532], Larson et al. 2008:149 [ref. 29532], Fricke et al. 2009:101 [ref. 30213], Allen & Erdmann 2012:897 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:270 [ref. 32706], Herler et al. 2013:327 [ref. 32889], Shibukawa et al. 2013:144 [ref. 32951], Fricke et al. 2014:166 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2018:333 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:155 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:64 [ref. 37020], Zajonz et al. 2019:96 [ref. 36871], Parenti 2021:169 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:96 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:15 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Gobiodon citrinus (Rüppell 1838). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Madagascar, Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles) and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Samoa and Tonga, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.

claytonii, Gobius Meek [S. E.] 1902:121, Pl. 31 lower [Field Columbian Museum, Zoölogical Series v. 3 (no. 6); ref. 2957] Río San Francisco at La Antigua, Veracruz, Mexico. Holotype: FMNH 3740. Non-types: FMNH 3741 (1), 16900-06 (7). Type catalog: Ibarra & Stewart 1987:41 [ref. 12367]. •Objective synonym of Ctenogobius fasciatus Gill 1858 -- (Robins & Lachner 1966:867 [ref. 22354]). •Valid as Gobionellus claytonii (Meek 1902) -- (González Bencomo et al. 1997:159 [ref. 24960], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:444 [ref. 24550] as claytoni, Miller 2006:397 [ref. 28615] as claytoni). •Valid as Ctenogobius claytonii (Meek 1902) -- (Murdy & Hoese 2003:1795 [ref. 27111] as claytoni, Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:658 [ref. 27061], Pezold 2004:273 [ref. 27685] as claytoni, Nelson et al. 2004:170 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:688 [ref. 28815], Scharpf 2009:13 [ref. 30400], Van Tassell 2011:143 [ref. 31732], Page et al. 2013:176 [ref. 32708], Pezold 2022:89 [ref. 39351], Page et al. 2023:121 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Ctenogobius claytonii (Meek 1902). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: North and Central America: from Rio Grande (Brownsville) south to Rio Coatzacoalcos and Usumacinta/Grijalva basin, Tabasco, Mexico. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

cliffordpopei, Gobius Nichols [J. T.] 1925:5 [American Museum Novitates No. 185; ref. 3180] Tungting (Dongting) Lake, Hunan Province, China. Neotype: FMNH 14700. Non-types: FMNH 14697-699 (3). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:122 [ref. 2676], Ibarra & Stewart 1987:42 [ref. 12367]. Neotype designated by Endruweit 2024:165 [ref. 41040]. •Valid as Ctenogobius cliffordpopei (Nichols 1925) -- (Zheng 1989:353 [ref. 21202], Deng in Ding 1994:528 [ref. 21531], Yang & Chen 1995:115 [ref. 23555], Zhu 1995:183 [ref. 25213], Cheng & Zhou 1997:382 [ref. 26385]). •In Rhinogobius -- (Chen et al. 1999:45 [ref. 24092]). •Valid as Sinogobius cliffordpopei (Nichols 1925) -- (Endruweit 2024:164 [ref. 41040]). •Valid as Rhinogobius cliffordpopei (Nichols 1925) -- (Chen & Kottelat 2000:81 [ref. 24446], Tang et al. 2001:15 [ref. 25373], Kottelat 2013:424 [ref. 32989], Zhang et al. 2016:202 [ref. 34477], Takahashi & Okazaki 2017:[3] [ref. 35171], Suzuki et al. 2017:80 [ref. 35202], Xia et al. 2018:560 [ref. 35887], Li et al. 2018:5 [ref. 35989], Zhang et al. 2019:530 [ref. 36699], Dyldin et al. 2020:90 [ref. 37569], Fu et al. 2021:9573 [ref. 39347], Guo 2021:867 [ref. 38618]). Current status: Valid as Rhinogobius cliffordpopei (Nichols 1925). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: East Asia: middle Yangtze River basin (China); ? Amur River basin (Russia). Habitat: freshwater.

coalitus, Gobius Bennett [E. T.] 1832:166 [Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 1830-31 (pt 1); ref. 4944] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1856.2.15.20 [ex Zool. Soc.]. •Synonym of Bathygobius fuscus (Rüppell 1830) -- (Maugé 1986:360 [ref. 6218]). •Valid as Bathygobius coalitus (Bennett 1832) -- (Randall & Goren 1993:5 [ref. 21131], Randall et al. 1997:527 [ref. 25919], Fricke 1999:500 [ref. 24106], Hutchins 2001:42 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3595 [ref. 26293], Allen & Adrim 2003:57 [ref. 26830], Heemstra et al. 2004:3328 [ref. 27945], Greenfield & Randall 2004:507 [ref. 28175], Randall 2005:520 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:471 [ref. 28379], Hoese & Larson 2006:1626 [ref. 29097], Randall 2007:395 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:99 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:204 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:960 [ref. 31980], Kottelat 2013:401 [ref. 32989], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:7 [ref. 33988], Koeda et al. 2016:89 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2018:326 [ref. 35805], Arndt & Fricke 2019:16 [ref. 36883], Parenti 2021:99 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:49 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Valid as Bathygobius coalitus (Bennett 1832). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa (Mozambique, Tanzania), Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Japan, south to Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.

cobitiformis, Gobius Kessler [K. F.] 1874:211 [21] [Trudy St.-Peterburgskogo Obscestva Estestvoispytatelej = Travaux de la Société des Naturalistes de St. Pétersbourg. v. 5; ref. 18397] Sevastopol and Kerch, Crimea, Ukraine. Syntypes: (up to 20) ZIN 2167 (1). •Synonym of Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas 1770) -- (Miller 1973:506 [ref. 6888], Kottelat 1997:180 [ref. 22952], Vasil'eva 1998:144 [ref. 23591], Vasil'eva 2003:S52 [ref. 28444], Parin et al. 2014:496 [ref. 33547]). Current status: Synonym of Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas 1770). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

cobitis, Gobius Pallas [P. S.] 1814:160 [Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica v. 3; ref. 3351] Feodosiya [Feodosia], Crimea, Ukraine, Black Sea. No types known. •Valid as Gobius cobitis Pallas 1814 -- (Miller 1973:485 [ref. 6888], Miller 1977:342 [ref. 41065], Goren 1979:43 [ref. 1852], Dor 1984:247 [ref. 29757], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1038 [ref. 13677], Maugé 1986:372 [ref. 6218], Miller 1990:934 [ref. 19376], Wheeler 1993:652 [ref. 36605], Goren & Dor 1994:64 [ref. 25356], Kottelat 1997:176 [ref. 22952], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:131 [ref. 26753], Vasil'eva 2003:S44 [ref. 28444], Golani 2005:56 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:103 [ref. 29533], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:551 [ref. 29996], Vasil'eva 2007:154 [ref. 30517], Kovačić & Golani 2008:419 [ref. 33214], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:63 [ref. 36649], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:186 [ref. 31737], Parin et al. 2015:481 [ref. 33547], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2840 [ref. 34618], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[22] 260 [ref. 36492], Golani & Fricke 2018:155 [ref. 36273], Artüz & Fricke 2019:559 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:180 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:100 [ref. 36864], Bariche & Fricke 2020:71 [ref. 37515], Kovačić 2020:77 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:24 [ref. 37519], Manilo 2020:73 [ref. 37795], Abliazov et al. 2021:11 [ref. 38576], Bañón & Maño 2021:91 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:74 [ref. 38303], Iglésias et al. 2021:14 [ref. 38136], Kovačić et al. 2021:40 [ref. 39014], Parenti 2021:176 [ref. 38603], Kovačić et al. 2022: 54 [ref. 39303], Larson 2022:102 [ref. 39971], Niță et al. 2022:82 [ref. 40471], Renoult et al. 2022:62 [ref. 39288], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:16 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Gobius cobitis Pallas 1814. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: southern Ireland and southern England south to Morocco; Red Sea: Gulf of Suez (Mediterranean Sea immigrant). Habitat: brackish, marine.

cocosensis, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1854:47 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 7 (no. 1); ref. 16938] Indonesia [original locality was Nova Selma, Cocos Island/Cocos-Keeling Islands, eastern Indian Ocean]. Neotype: RMNH 4533. Unique holotype from Cocos-Keeling Is. apparently lost; neotype selected by Akihito & Meguro 1980:225 [ref. 6920]. •Valid as Bathygobius cocosensis (Bleeker 1854) -- (Akihito & Meguro 1980:225 [ref. 6920], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:272 [ref. 6441], Hoese 1986:781 [ref. 5670], Allen & Swainston 1988:134 [ref. 25477], Miller & Smith 1989:315 [ref. 25535], Randall et al. 1990:395 [ref. 15987], Randall & Goren 1993:5 [ref. 21131], Allen 1997:216 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:395 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:245 [ref. 23965], Chu 1999:70 [ref. 24097], Randall 1999:26 [ref. 25829], Allen 2000:92 [ref. 37268], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:635 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1220 [ref. 25182], Randall & Earle 2000:19 [ref. 25806], Sakai et al. 2001:109 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:42 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3595 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1221 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:57 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:643 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:26 [ref. 27624], Tan & Lim 2004:110 [ref. 27716], Adrim et al. 2004:126 [ref. 27715], Heemstra et al. 2004:3328 [ref. 27945], Greenfield & Randall 2004:508 [ref. 28175], Randall 2005:520 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:472 [ref. 28379], Hoese & Larson 2006:1627 [ref. 29097], Randall 2007:395 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:99 [ref. 30213], Shibukawa 2009:264 [ref. 30449], Motomura et al. 2010:205 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:960 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:191 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:401 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:159 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:7 [ref. 33988], Fricke et al. 2018:326 [ref. 35805], Arndt & Fricke 2019:16 [ref. 36883], Eagderi et al. 2019:59 [ref. 37020], Sadeghi & Esmaeili 2019:118 [ref. 39549], Okamoto in Motomura et al. 2021:68 [ref. 38121], Parenti 2021:99 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:49 [ref. 39971], Mochizuki et al. 2022:23 [ref. 39612], Sreeraj et al. 2022:649 [ref. 40119]). Current status: Valid as Bathygobius cocosensis (Bleeker 1854). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Pitcairn, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia), New Caledonia and Rapa (French Polynsia). Habitat: marine.

coelidotus, Gobius (Oxyurichthys) Sauvage [H.-E.] (ex Cuvier & Valenciennes) 1880:50 [11] [Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série) v. 4; ref. 3887] Java, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-2968. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:29 [ref. 19958]. On p. 11 of separate. •Valid as Callogobius coelidotus (Sauvage 1880) -- (Delventhal & Mooi 2013:156 [ref. 32677]). •Synonym of Callogobius hasseltii (Bleeker 1851) -- (Kottelat 2013:404 [ref. 32989], Pezold & Larson 2015:5 [ref. 33894], Parenti 2021:113 [ref. 38603]). •Status uncertain -- (Delventhal & Mooi 2023:460 [ref. 40434]). Current status: Synonym of Callogobius hasseltii (Bleeker 1851). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

collonianus, Gobius Risso [A.] 1820:252 [Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d'Histoire Naturelle v. 91; ref. 18636] Nice, France, northwestern Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:55 [ref. 19958]. Spelled colonianus in Risso 1827:285 [ref. 3735]. •Valid as Deltentosteus colonianus [sic] (Risso 1820) -- (Miller 1973:495 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1032 [ref. 13677], and Golani 1996:28 [ref. 22271] and dated to 1826 [1827], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:130 [ref. 26753] as collonianus, Fricke et al. 2007:102 [ref. 29533], Kovačić & Golani 2008:419 [ref. 33214], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:62 [ref. 36649] as colonianus, Kovačić & Patzner 2011:185 [ref. 31737] as colonianus [sic], Artüz & Fricke 2019:559 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:179 [ref. 37250], Kovačić 2020:76 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:24 [ref. 37519], Golani 2021:73 [ref. 38303] as colonianus, Iglésias et al. 2021:180 [ref. 38818], Kovačić et al. 2021:39 [ref. 39014], Kovačić et al. 2022: 49 [ref. 39303]). Current status: Valid as Deltentosteus collonianus (Risso 1820). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; eastern Atlantic: southern Portugal. Habitat: marine.

coloniamus, Gobius Navarrete [A.] 1898:108, 158 [Manual de ictiología marina; ref. 18474] No types known. Unneeded new name for and objective synonym of Gobius filamentosus Risso 1827. Original as Gobius coloniamus (Mor.). •Synonym of Gobius ophiocephalus Pallas 1814 -- (Parenti 2021:179 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Gobius ophiocephalus Pallas 1814. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

cometes, Gobius Alcock [A. W.] 1890:208, Pl. 8 (fig. 2) [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6) v. 6 (no. 33) (art. 26); ref. 82] Off Madras coast, India, 18°30'N, 84°46'E, Investigator station 96, depth 98-102 fathoms. Syntypes: (about 350) BMNH 1890.11.28.13-17 [ex ZSI F12730] (5), MNHN 1890-0327 to 0334 (1 ea. = 8), ZMA 114487 (1), ZSI F12729 (1). Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:153 [ref. 20743], Menon and Rama-Rao 1970:377 [ref. 27516], Menon & Rama-Rao 1975:42 [ref. 22148], Bauchot et al. 1991:29 [ref. 19958]. Figured in Alcock 1898: Pl. 20 (fig. 3) [ref. 20534]. •Valid as Obliquogobius cometes (Alcock 1890) -- (Larson & Murdy 2001:3598 [ref. 26293], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S119 [ref. 27377], Shibukawa & Aonuma 2007:138 [ref. 29107], Chen et al. 2012:269 [ref. 32041], Psomadakis et al. 2020:549 [ref. 37272], Fujiwara et al. 2021:547 [ref. 38898], Fricke 2022:7 [ref. 39459], Larson 2022:116 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Valid as Obliquogobius cometes (Alcock 1890). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, India and Myanmar east to the Philippines, north to East China Sea and Japan. Habitat: marine.

commersoni, Gobius Schneider [J. G.] in Bloch & Schneider 1801:548 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Southern Ocean, at river mouths [is Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean]. New name for Gobius niger Lacepède 1800. •Valid as Awaous commersoni (Schneider 1801) -- (Fricke 1999:499 [ref. 24106], Heemstra et al. 2004:3328 [ref. 27945], Fricke et al. 2009:99 [ref. 30213], Arndt & Fricke 2019:15 [ref. 36883], Larson 2022:158 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Valid as Awaous commersoni (Schneider 1801). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Southwestern Indian Ocean: Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius and Rodrigues). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

commersonii, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:136 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. No types known. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:55 [ref. 19958] as no types at MNHN. Replacement name for Gobius niger Lacepède 1800; but objectively invalid because it is itself preoccupied by Gobius commersoni Schlegel 1801. •Treated as valid as Gobius commersonii Valenciennes 1837 -- (Maugé 1986:374 [ref. 6218]). •Synonym of Awaous commersoni (Schneider 1801) -- (Fricke 1999:499 [ref. 24106], Larson 2022:158 [ref. 39971]). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Awaous commersoni (Schneider 1801). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: brackish.

concavifrons, Gobius Ramsay [E. P.] & Ogilby [J. D.] 1886:12 [Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (Series 2) v. 1 (pt 1); ref. 14464] Strickland River, Papua New Guinea. Holotype (unique): AMS B.9950. Type catalog: Koumans 1940:163 [ref. 2676]. •Valid as Glossogobius concavifrons (Ramsay & Ogilby 1886) -- (Allen 1991:181 [ref. 21090], Allen et al. 2000:122 [ref. 27467] dated 1887, Unmack 2001:1064 [ref. 25797], Allen et al. 2002:267 [ref. 25930], Hoese & Larson 2006:1653 [ref. 29097], Allen et al. 2008:167 [ref. 30265], Hoese & Allen 2009:2 [ref. 29998], Hoese & Allen 2012:269 [ref. 31974], Larson et al. 2013:198 [ref. 32988], Hoese & Allen 2015:214 [ref. 33880], Pusey et al. 2017:73 [ref. 35250], Hoese & Hammer 2021:111 [ref. 38350], Parenti 2021:162 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Glossogobius concavifrons (Ramsay & Ogilby 1886). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Australia and New Guinea. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

concolor, Gobius De Vis [C. W.] 1884:689 [Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales v. 9 (pt 3); ref. 17383] Cape York, Queensland, Australia. Holotype (unique): QM I.86. Type catalog: Koumans 1940:174 [ref. 2676]. •Synonym of Exyrias puntang (Bleeker 1851) -- (Murdy 1985:10 [ref. 19200], Hoese & Larson 2006:1649 [ref. 29097], Kottelat 2013:407 [ref. 32989], Parenti 2021:153 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Exyrias puntang (Bleeker 1851). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

congoensis, Gobius Sauvage [H.-E.] 1884:205 [7] [Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France v. 9 (no. 3/4); ref. 21731] Majumpa, Congo. Syntypes: MNHN 1884-0026 to 0030 (5). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:29 [ref. 19958]. On p. 7 of separate. •Questionably a synonym of Bathygobius casamancus (Rochebrune 1880) -- (Maugé 1986:360 [ref. 6218], Miller 1990:925 [ref. 19376]). •Synonym of Bathygobius casamancus (Rochebrune 1880) -- (D. Hoese/H.K. Larson data). Current status: Synonym of Bathygobius casamancus (Rochebrune 1880). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

constructor, Gobius Nordmann [A. von] 1840:427, Pl. 9 (fig. 2) [Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée; ref. 3209] Black Sea, rapid torrents in Abasie, Drandarium, Ghouriel. Syntypes: ?MNHN A-1196 (1) from Abasie, ZMB 2096 (1). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:29 [ref. 19958] as Gobius constructor. •Synonym of Neogobius cephalarges (Pallas 1814), but a valid subspecies as described -- (Berg 1949:1087 [ref. 20662]). •Synonym of Neogobius platyrostris (Pallas 1814), but a valid subspecies as described -- (Pinchuk 1977:590 [ref. 8999], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:756 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:142 [ref. 23591]). •Synonym of Gobius constructor Nordmann 1840, but a valid subspecies -- (Michajlova 1989:25 [ref. 20062]). •In part a synonym of Neogobius rhodioni Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev 1994 -- (Vasil'eva 1998:142 [ref. 23591]). •See also Coad 1995:31 [ref. 23608]. •Synonym of Neogobius rhodioni Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev 1994 -- (Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev 2003:370 [ref. 27347]). •Valid as Neogobius constructor (Nordmann 1840) -- (Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev 1994:747 [ref. 22082], Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev 2003:193 [ref. 27347], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:229 [ref. 28183], Kovačić & Engín 2008:79 [ref. 29624], Fricke et al. 2007:105 [ref. 29533], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:577 [ref. 29996], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:172 [ref. 31251]). •Valid as Ponticola constructor (Nordmann 1840) -- (Neilson & Stepien 2009:97 [ref. 30487], Freyhof 2011:286 [ref. 31742], Stepien & Neilson 2013:2 [ref. 35325], Çiçek et al. 2015:152 [ref. 35151], Vasil'eva et al. 2016:9 [ref. 34347], Çiçek et al. 2020:256 [ref. 37644], Kuljanishvili et al. 2020:[5] [ref. 37535], Parenti 2021:74 [ref. 38603], Çiçek et al. 2023:432 [ref. 40625], Epitashvili et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40224], Çiçek et al. 2024:310 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Ponticola constructor (Nordmann 1840). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eurasia: eastern Black Sea basin. Habitat: freshwater.

coryphaenula, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:131 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Guam, Mariana Islands, western Pacific. Holotype: MNHN 0000-3097 [or A-1376]. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:30 [ref. 19958] as coryphoenula. •Synonym of Gobiodon rivulatus (Rüppell 1830) -- (Maugé 1986:370 [ref. 6218], Fricke et al. 2018:333 [ref. 35805], Larson 2022:99 [ref. 39971] with question, Parenti 2021:171 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Gobiodon rivulatus (Rüppell 1830). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

cotticeps, Gobius Steindachner [F.] 1879:137 [19], Pl. 1 (figs. 2-2a) [Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 80 (nos 1-2); ref. 4229] Society Islands [French Polynesia, South Pacific]. Holotype (unique): NMW 30439. On p. 19 of separate. •Valid as Bathygobius cotticeps (Steindachner 1879) -- (Akihito & Meguro 1980:229 [ref. 6920], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:273 [ref. 6441], Hoese 1986:781 [ref. 5670], Miller & Smith 1989:315 [ref. 25535], Randall et al. 1997:527 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:245 [ref. 23965], Chu 1999:70 [ref. 24097], Fricke 1999:501 [ref. 24106], Randall 1999:26 [ref. 25829], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:635 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1219 [ref. 25182], Randall & Earle 2000:19 [ref. 25806], Larson & Murdy 2001:3595 [ref. 26293] dated 1880, Miller & Stefanni 2001:151 [ref. 26034], Nakabo 2002:1219 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:57 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S118 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:643 [ref. 27495] dated 1880, Randall et al. 2004:26 [ref. 27624], Heemstra et al. 2004:3328 [ref. 27945], Greenfield & Randall 2004:510 [ref. 28175], Randall 2005:520 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:472 [ref. 28379], Fricke & Kulbicki 2006:349 [ref. 28867], Hoese & Larson 2006:1627 [ref. 29097] dated 1880 and wrong reference, Randall 2007:396 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:99 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:205 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:961 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:269 [ref. 32706], Kottelat 2013:401 [ref. 32989], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:7 [ref. 33988] dated 1880, Arndt & Fricke 2019:16 [ref. 36883], Parenti 2021:100 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:50 [ref. 39971], Mochizuki et al. 2022:25 [ref. 39612], Sreeraj et al. 2022:650 [ref. 40119]). Current status: Valid as Bathygobius cotticeps (Steindachner 1879). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Mozambique Channel and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Pitcairn Group, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Queensland (Australia), New Caledonia and Tonga. Habitat: marine.

couchi, Gobius Miller [P. J.] & El-Tawil [M. Y.] 1974:546, Fig. 2 [Journal of Zoology (London) v. 174 (no. 4); ref. 7520] Helford, Cornwall, English Channel, England. Holotype: BMNH 1974.2.8.1. Paratypes: BMNH 1974.2.8.2-11 (10). •Valid as Gobius couchi Miller & El-Tawil 1974 -- (Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1039 [ref. 13677], Stefanni & Mazzoldi 1999:1128 [ref. 40399], Kovačić 2001:4 [ref. 39539], Herler et al. 2005:1044 [ref. 28118], Kovačić & Golani 2007:89 [ref. 39536], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:64 [ref. 36649], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:186 [ref. 31737], Kovačić et al. 2011:247 [ref. 32868], Kovačić et al. 2012:439 [ref. 32861], Kovačić et al. 2014:234 [ref. 33190], Kovačić & Šanda 2016:1121 [ref. 34173], Carneiro et al. 2019:180 [ref. 37250], Iglésias et al. 2020:300 [ref. 37987], Kovačić 2020:77 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:24 [ref. 37519], Manilo 2020:73 [ref. 37795], Iglésias et al. 2021:181 [ref. 38818], Kovačić et al. 2021:40 [ref. 39014], Parenti 2021:176 [ref. 38603], Renoult et al. in Santín et al. 2021:203 [ref. 38223], Bilecenoğlu & Yokeş 2022:45 [ref. 39524], Gus'kov et al. 2022:73 [ref. 39564], Kovačić et al. 2022: 55 [ref. 39303], Renoult et al. 2022:72 [ref. 39288]). Current status: Valid as Gobius couchi Miller & El-Tawil 1974. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: British Isles south to Portugal. Habitat: brackish, marine.

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.

criniger, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:82 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Dorey Harbor, New Guinea; Malabar, India. Syntypes: MNHN A-1348 (1, main specimen) Dorey Harbor, New Guinea; MNHN A-1350 (1) Malabar, India. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:30 [ref. 19958] as holotype and paratype. •Valid as Rhinogobius criniger (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Miller 1973:515 [ref. 6888]). •Valid as Ctenogobius criniger (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Geevarghese & John 1982:660 [ref. 8476], Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:295 [ref. 26639] with authors as Cuvier & Valenciennes). •Valid as Yongeichthys criniger (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:254 [ref. 6441], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:571 [ref. 25598], Rema Devi 1993:173 [ref. 24020], Randall 1995:795 [ref. 22357], Takahashi & Okamoto 2000:6 [ref. 24464], Nakabo 2000:1205 [ref. 25182], Sakai et al. 2001:120 [ref. 25693], Nakabo 2002:1205 [ref. 26193], Randall et al. 2004:29 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:559 [ref. 28239], Kottelat 2013:432 [ref. 32989], Suresh et al. 2018:292 [ref. 36495]). •Synonym of Yongeichthys nebulosus (Forsskål 1775) -- (Dor 1984:252 [ref. 29757], Maugé 1986:387 [ref. 6218], Hoese & Larson 2006:1697 [ref. 29097], Larson 2022:155 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Yongeichthys nebulosus (Forsskål 1775). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

cristagalli, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:130 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Havana, Cuba. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-1403. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:30 [ref. 19958] as cristi galli. Originally as crista galli. •Synonym of Lophogobius cyprinoides (Pallas 1770) -- (Koumans 1937:xx [ref. 2675], Akihito & Meguro 2000:xxx [ref. 24803], Parenti 2021:193 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Lophogobius cyprinoides (Pallas 1770). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

cristatus, Gobius Macleay [W.] 1881:610 [Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales v. 5 (pt 4); ref. 2869] Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia. Syntypes: AMS I.16391-001 [ex MAMU F993] (10). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:158 [ref. 2676], Stanbury 1969:208 [ref. 19518]. Secondarily preoccupied by Euctenogobius cristatus Day 1873; replaced by Gobius gobioides Ogilby 1886. •Valid as Cryptocentroides cristatus (Macleay 1881) -- (Larson & Murdy 2001:3596 [ref. 26293]). •Synonym of Cryptocentroides gobioides (Ogilby 1886) -- (Hoese & Larson 2006:1636 [ref. 29097], Parenti 2021:124 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Cryptocentroides gobioides (Ogilby 1886). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

cruentatus, Gobius Gmelin [J. F.] 1789:1197 [Caroli a Linné ... Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae v. 1 (pt 3); ref. 18139] Marseille, France, western Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Based on 'Gobius No. 42' of Brünnich 1768:30 [ref. 17290]. See also Gobius pustulatus Bonnaterre 1788. Declared a nomen protectum by Parenti 2021:177 [ref. 38603]. •Valid as Gobius cruentatus Gmelin 1789 -- (Herrera 1896:61 [ref. 39336], Miller 1973:486 [ref. 6888], Miller 1977:342 [ref. 41065], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1039 [ref. 13677], Miller 1990:934 [ref. 19376], Kovačić & Miller 2000:234 [ref. 25014], Ahnelt 2001:266 [ref. 25667], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:131 [ref. 26753], Gil et al. 2002:161 [ref. 25974], Golani 2005:56 [ref. 37112], Engin et al. 2007:87 [ref. 29213], Fricke et al. 2007:103 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:154 [ref. 30517], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:64 [ref. 36649], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:186 [ref. 31737], Schliewen 2011:217 [ref. 31738], Parin et al. 2015:482 [ref. 33547], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2840 [ref. 34618], Artüz & Fricke 2019:559 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:180 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:100 [ref. 36864], Bariche & Fricke 2020:71 [ref. 37515], Kovačić 2020:77 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:24 [ref. 37519], Manilo 2020:74 [ref. 37795], Abliazov et al. 2021:11 [ref. 38576], Bañón & Maño 2021:91 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:74 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:40 [ref. 39014], Parenti 2021:176 [ref. 38603], Gus'kov et al. 2022:73 [ref. 39564], Kovačić et al. 2022: 55 [ref. 39303], Renoult et al. 2022:84 [ref. 39288]). Nomen Protectum. Current status: Valid as Gobius cruentatus Gmelin 1789. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: Ireland south to Senegal. Habitat: marine.

cryptocentrus, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:111, Pl. 346 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Massawa, Eritrea, Red Sea. Syntypes: MNHN A-1166 (1, primary specimen), ZMB 2077 (4). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:30 [ref. 19958] as holotype and paratypes. •Valid as Cryptocentrus cryptocentrus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Goren 1979:29 [ref. 1852], Dor 1984:242 [ref. 29757], Hoese 1986:786 [ref. 5670], Goren & Dor 1994:64 [ref. 25356], Fricke 1999:507 [ref. 24106], Hoese & Larson 2004:168 [ref. 28074], Fricke et al. 2013:269 [ref. 32706], Golani & Fricke 2018:151 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:62 [ref. 37020], Hoese 2019:37 [ref. 36472], Goren & Stern 2021:12 [ref. 38671], Parenti 2021:126 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:72 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:9 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Cryptocentrus cryptocentrus (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; western Indian Ocean: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Seychelles, Mozambique Channel and Mascarenes (Mauritius) east to Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory). Habitat: marine.

cryptosquamis, Gobius Rendahl [H.] 1924:24 [Arkiv för Zoologi v. 16 (no. 2); ref. 15467] Fengtein [Penglien], Hulutao [Hulutu], China. Holotype (unique): NRM 1921231-3620 [formerly NRM 10620] (dry). Locality in NRM collection is Liaoning, Jinzhuo, Jinxi, Huludao I., China. •Synonym of Acanthogobius flavimanus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845) -- (D. Hoese/H.K. Larson data). Current status: Synonym of Acanthogobius flavimanus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

curacao, Gobius Metzelaar [J.] 1919:136, Fig. 38 [Report on the fishes; ref. 2982] Curaçao and Bonaire islands. Syntypes: BMNH 1920.1.8.5-7 (3), CAS-SU 23311 (2), ZMA 111890 (25). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:113 [ref. 12291], Nijssen et al. 1982:98 [ref. 19236]. •Valid as Bathygobius curacao (Metzelaar 1919) -- (Robins & Ray 1986:242 [ref. 23100], Miller & Smith 1989:315 [ref. 25535], Garzón-Ferreira & Acero P. 1992:25 [ref. 39338], Cervigón 1994:154 [ref. 24488], Aguilera 1998:52 [ref. 24221], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:425 [ref. 24550], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:314 [ref. 25013], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:167 [ref. 27754], Thacker & Cole 2002:840 [ref. 26548], Murdy & Hoese 2003:1792 [ref. 27111], Smith et al. 2003:59 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:169 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:670 [ref. 28815], Tornabene et al. 2010:149 [ref. 30990], Van Tassell 2011:140 [ref. 31732], Page et al. 2013:175 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Collette 2013:180 [ref. 32953], Rodríguez-Rey et al. 2017:11 [ref. 35433], Parenti 2021:100 [ref. 38603], Page et al. 2023:120 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Bathygobius curacao (Metzelaar 1919). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Cape Canaveral (Florida, U.S.A.) and Bermuda south to Trinidad and Tobago, including southern Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. IUCN (2019): Least concern. Habitat: marine.

cyanoclavis, Gobius Cantor [T. E.] 1849:1167 [185] [Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal v. 18 (pt 2); ref. 715] Sea of Penang, Malaysia. Syntypes: BMNH 1860.3.19.561-562 (2, half skins). On p. 185 of separate. •Synonym of Acentrogobius cyanomos (Bleeker 1849) -- (Parenti 2021:78 [ref. 38603]). •Synonym of Aulopareia cyanomos (Bleeker 1849) -- (Larson & Jaafar 2022:500 [ref. 39363]). Current status: Synonym of Aulopareia cyanomos (Bleeker 1849). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

cyanomos, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1849:25 [Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. v. 22 [6]; ref. 319] Madura Straits near Surabaya and Kammal, Java, Indonesia. Holotype or syntypes: RMNH 4524 (1 of 19). Appeared without distinguishing features in list in Bleeker 1849:5 [ref. 320]. Spelled cyanosmos by Day 1876:287 [ref. 1081]. •Valid as Acentrogobius cyanomos (Bleeker 1849) -- (Ataur Rahman 1989:309 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:924 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:141 [ref. 23448], Rema Devi 1993:166 [ref. 24020], Ataur Rahman 2003:335 [ref. 31338], Larson et al. 2008:145 [ref. 29532], Shibukawa 2009:259 [ref. 30449], Huang et al. 2014:108 [ref. 33161], Allen 2015:7 [ref. 33699], Allen 2017:108 [ref. 35601], Eagderi et al. 2019:57 [ref. 37020], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 14 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:546 [ref. 37272], Parenti 2021:78 [ref. 38603]). •Valid as Aulopareia cyanomos (Bleeker 1849) -- (Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:635 [ref. 25122], Larson & Murdy 2001:3595 [ref. 26293], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S118 [ref. 27377], Larson & Wright 2003:130 [ref. 27481], Kottelat 2013:399 [ref. 32989], Taki et al. 2021:437 [ref. 39830], Larson & Jaafar 2022:495 [ref. 39363], Sen et al. 2023:3 [ref. 40396]). Current status: Valid as Aulopareia cyanomos (Bleeker 1849). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf east to Myanmar and western Indonesia and Brunei. Habitat: brackish, marine.

cyanotaenia, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1853:475 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 4 (no. 3); ref. 336] Jakarta, Java, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): RMNH 4662. •Valid as Cryptocentrus cyanotaenia (Bleeker 1853) -- (Myers 1999:239 [ref. 23965], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:636 [ref. 25122], Larson & Murdy 2001:3596 [ref. 26293], Satapoomin & Winterbottom 2002:61 [ref. 26168], Allen & Adrim 2003:57 [ref. 26830], Hoese & Larson 2004:168 [ref. 28074], Randall et al. 2005:128 [ref. 28745], Larson et al. 2008:147 [ref. 29532], Shibukawa 2009:268 [ref. 30449], Allen & Randall 2011:560 [ref. 31615] including identifications referred to multicinctus, Allen & Erdmann 2012:871 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:161 [ref. 33932], Sadeghi et al. 2019:102 [ref. 36845], Eagderi et al. 2019:62 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:276 [ref. 36673], Parenti 2021:126 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Cryptocentrus cyanotaenia (Bleeker 1853). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf; Andaman Sea east to New Ireland (Papua New Guinea). Habitat: marine.

cyclopterus, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:59 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Carteret Harbour, Lambom Island, near Cape Saint-George, southern New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific, ca. 4°48'S, 152°51'E. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-1355. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:30-31 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Bathygobius cyclopterus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Goren 1978:269 [ref. 8929], Goren 1979:26 [ref. 1852], Akihito & Meguro 1980:228 [ref. 6920], Dor 1984:240 [ref. 29757], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:273 [ref. 6441], Hoese 1986:781 [ref. 5670], Miller & Smith 1989:315 [ref. 25535], Randall & Goren 1993:6 [ref. 21131], Kottelat et al. 1993:142 [ref. 23448], Goren & Dor 1994:63 [ref. 25356], Myers 1999:245 [ref. 23965], Chu 1999:70 [ref. 24097], Fricke 1999:502 [ref. 24106], Allen 2000:92 [ref. 37268], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:635 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1219 [ref. 25182], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:242 [ref. 25480], Sakai et al. 2001:109 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:42 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3595 [ref. 26293], Miller & Stefanni 2001:151 [ref. 26034], Nakabo 2002:1219 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:57 [ref. 26830], Randall 2005:520 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Larson 2006:1627 [ref. 29097], Fricke et al. 2009:100 [ref. 30213], Shibukawa 2009:264 [ref. 30449], Motomura et al. 2010:205 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:961 [ref. 31980], Kottelat 2013:401 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:159 [ref. 33932], Koeda et al. 2016:89 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2018:327 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:148 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:274 [ref. 36673], Kovačić et al. 2021:87 [ref. 39014], Parenti 2021:100 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:50 [ref. 39971], Mochizuki et al. 2022:25 [ref. 39612], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:5 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Bathygobius cyclopterus (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion) east to Mariana Islands and Samoa, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: brackish, marine.

cyprinoides, Gobius Pallas [P. S.] 1770:17, Pl. 1 (fig. 5) [Spicilegia Zoologica v. 1 (fasc. 8); ref. 12293] Ambon Island [actual is West Indies]. No types known. •Valid as Lophogobius cyprinoides (Pallas 1770) -- (Robins & Ray 1986:245 [ref. 23100], Gamboa Pérez 1992:330 [ref. 38704], Cervigón 1994:2000 [ref. 24488], Greenfield & Thomerson 1997:245 [ref. 22947] as Lophiogobius, Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:436 [ref. 24550], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:317 [ref. 25013], Thacker & Cole 2002:838 [ref. 26548], Murdy & Hoese 2003:1794 [ref. 27111], Smith et al. 2003:63 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:172 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:713 [ref. 28815], Miller 2006:399 [ref. 28615], Matamoros et al. 2009:25 [ref. 31241], Van Tassell 2011:141, 144 [ref. 31732], Page et al. 2013:177 [ref. 32708], Phillip et al. 2013:25 [ref. 32896], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:79 [ref. 33341], Shibukawa et al. 2014:157 [ref. 35157], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:345 [ref. 36407], Robins et al. 2018:415 [ref. 35886], Parenti 2021:193 [ref. 38603], Angulo et al. 2023:37 [ref. 40676], Page et al. 2023:123 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Lophogobius cyprinoides (Pallas 1770). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic. Immigrated through Panama Canal to the eastern Pacific. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

cyrius, Gobius Kessler [K. F.] 1874:273 [83] [Trudy St.-Peterburgskogo Obscestva Estestvoispytatelej = Travaux de la Société des Naturalistes de St. Pétersbourg. v. 5; ref. 18397] Kura River near Borzhomi, Georgia, Eurasia. Syntypes: ZIN 2235 (3). •Synonym of Neogobius cephalarges (Pallas 1814) -- (Berg 1949:1088 [ref. 20662]). •Synonym of Neogobius platyrostris (Pallas 1814) -- (Pinchuk 1977:590 [ref. 8999]). •Mention -- (Reshetnikov et al. 1997:756 [ref. 24702]). •Valid as Neogobius cyrius (Kessler 1874) -- (Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev 1994:747 [ref. 22082], Ahnelt & Holčík 1996:103 [ref. 24708], Coad 1998:103 [ref. 23869], Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev 2003:203 [ref. 27347], Fricke et al. 2007:105 [ref. 29533], Kovačić & Engín 2008:79 [ref. 29624]). •Valid as Ponticola cyrius (Kessler 1874) -- (Neilson & Stepien 2009:97 [ref. 30497], Esmaeili et al. 2010:378 [ref. 33391], Freyhof 2011:286 [ref. 31742], Stepien & Neilson 2013:2 [ref. 35325], Vasil'eva et al. 2015:196 [ref. 33862], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:899 [ref. 34062], Çiçek et al. 2015:152 [ref. 35151], Vasil'eva et al. 2016:9 [ref. 34347], Esmaeili et al. 2017:84 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:66 [ref. 36089], Çiçek et al. 2020:256 [ref. 37644], Kaya et al. 2020:340 [ref. 37582], Kuljanishvili et al. 2020:[5] [ref. 37535], Eagderi et al. 2020:29 [ref. 37931], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:242 [ref. 37983], Parenti 2021:74 [ref. 38603], Zarei et al. 2022:423 [ref. 39354], Zarei et al. 2022:176 [ref. 39576], Çiçek et al. 2023:432 [ref. 40625], Epitashvili et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40224], Çiçek et al. 2024:310 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Ponticola cyrius (Kessler 1874). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eurasia: Caspian Sea basin. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

daguae, Gobius (Ctenogobius) Eigenmann [C. H.] 1918:685 [Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society v. 56 (no. 7); ref. 12304] Mouth of Río Dagua, Colombia. Holotype: FMNH 58479 [ex CM 7481]. Paratypes: CAS 46150 [ex IU 13863] (2), FMNH 58480 [ex CM 7482] (1). Type catalog: Henn 1928:97 [ref. 12305], Ibarra & Stewart 1987:42 [ref. 12367]. •Valid as Gobionellus daguae (Eigenmann 1918) -- (Allen & Robertson 1994:264 [ref. 22193], Hoese in Fischer et al. 1995:1134 [ref. 22829], Pezold 2004:287 [ref. 27686], Van Tassell 2011:144 [ref. 31732]). Current status: Valid as Gobionellus daguae (Eigenmann 1918). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Panama to Colombia. Habitat: brackish, marine.

dalli, Gobius Gilbert [C. H.] 1890:73 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 13 (no. 797); ref. 1623] West of Isla San Jose, Gulf of California, Mexico, Albatross station 3001, depth 33 fathoms. Lectotype: USNM 107287. Paralectotypes: CAS-SU 286 (3); USNM 48255 (1), 126749 (2). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:113 [ref. 12291]. Lectotype selected by Ginsburg 1939:54 [ref. 12362]. •Valid as Lythrypnus dalli (Gilbert 1890) -- (Wiley 1976:170 [ref. 23169], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:263 [ref. 9277], Bussing 1990:108 [ref. 19516], Allen & Robertson 1994:266 [ref. 22193], Hoese in Fischer et al. 1995:1135 [ref. 22829], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:556 [ref. 24023] [but see McCosker 1998:810 [ref. 24025]], Thomson et al. 2000:247 [ref. 25640], Ahnelt & Bohacek 2004:31 [ref. 27751], Nelson et al. 2004:172 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:162 [ref. 37547], Béarez et al. 2008:478 [ref. 32869], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:194 [ref. 30957], Van Tassell 2011:141 [ref. 31732], Page et al. 2013:177 [ref. 32708], Kells et al. 2016:306 [ref. 35888], Burton & Lea 2019:91 [ref. 37205], Love et al. 2021:206 [ref. 39279], Parenti 2021:195 [ref. 38603], Page et al. 2023:123 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Lythrypnus dalli (Gilbert 1890). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: central California (U.S.A.) south to Peru, including Gulf of California (Mexico) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.

darnleyensis, Gobius Alleyne [H. G.] & Macleay [W.] 1877:331, Pl. 12 (fig. 1) [Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales v. 1 (pts 3-4); ref. 101] Erub [= Darnley] Island, 9°35'S, 143°46'E, Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. Syntypes: AMS I.16390-001 [es MAMU F992(a)] (3). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:157 [ref. 2676], Stanbury 1969:208 [ref. 19518]. •Synonym of Bathygobius fuscus (Rüppell 1830) -- (Akihito & Meguro 1980:221 [ref. 6920], Hoese & Larson 2006:1627 [ref. 29097], Kottelat 2013:402 [ref. 32989], Parenti 2021:101 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Bathygobius fuscus (Rüppell 1830). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

davidi, Gobius Sauvage [H.-E.] & Dabry de Thiersant [P.] 1874:2 [Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris (Zoologie et Paléontologie) (Sér. 6) v. 1 (art. 5); ref. 15665] West Tchekiang, China. Lectotype: MNHN 0000-6808. Paralectotypes: MNHN 1996-1330 to 1333 [ex MNHN 0000-6808] (4), 1996-1334 (25); NMW 29168-70 (3). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:31 [ref. 19958]. Lectotype selected by Chen & Miller 1998:214 [ref. 23576]; MNHN 1996-1334 were referred to another species, but they are technically still paralectotypes of davidi. •Valid as Ctenogobius davidi (Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant 1874) -- (Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:293 [ref. 26639], Zhu 1995:183 [ref. 25213]). •Valid as Pseudorhinogobius davidi (Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant 1874) -- (Endruweit 2024:130 [ref. 41040]). •Valid as Rhinogobius davidi (Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant 1874) -- (Chen & Miller 1998:214 [ref. 23576], Zhong & Tzeng 1998:239 [ref. 24163], Chen et al. 1999:177 [ref. 23885], Chen & Fang 2006:252 [ref. 28955], Li & Zhong 2007:542 [ref. 29346], Chen et al. 2008:340 [ref. 29895], Yang et al. 2008:384 [ref. 29924], Huang et al. 2016:[8] [ref. 34339], Zhang et al. 2016:202 [ref. 34477], Takahashi & Okazaki 2017:[2] [ref. 35171], Suzuki et al. 2017:80 [ref. 35202], Li et al. 2018:5 [ref. 35989]). Current status: Valid as Rhinogobius davidi (Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant 1874). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: East Asia: Zhejiang Province, China. Habitat: freshwater.

decaryi, Gobius criniger var. Pellegrin [J.] 1932:295, Fig. 3 [Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France v. 57 (no. 4); ref. 16390] Marsh west of Fort Dauphin, Madagascar. Syntypes: MNHN 1932-0111 to 0115 (14). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:30 [ref. 19958]. •Synonym of Yongeichthys nebulosus (Forsskål 1775) -- (Maugé 1986:387 [ref. 6218]). •Probably in genus Acentrogobius -- (Larson & Wright 2003:130 [ref. 27481]). •Questionably a synonym of Acentrogobius viridipunctatus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Kottelat 2013:398 [ref. 32989]). •Valid as Acentrogobius decaryi (Pellegrin 1932) -- (Jawad et al. 2016:1 [ref. 34964], Fricke et al. 2018:323 [ref. 35805], Parenti 2021:79 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:33 [ref. 39965]). Current status: Valid as Acentrogobius decaryi (Pellegrin 1932). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southwestern Indian Ocean: Madagascar endemic. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

decussatus, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1855:442 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 8 (no. 3); ref. 16840] Manado, Indonesia. Syntypes: (2) RMNH 4528 (2 of 5). •Valid as Amblygobius decussatus (Bleeker 1855) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:255 [ref. 6441], Randall et al. 1990:393 [ref. 15987], Allen 1997:214 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:393 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:242 [ref. 23965], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:635 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1237 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:406 [ref. 25191], Allen 2000:118 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:42 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3594 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1237 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:56 [ref. 26830], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:176 [ref. 27510], Randall 2005:517 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Larson 2006:1621 [ref. 29097], Larson et al. 2008:146 [ref. 29532] as Amblyogobius, Allen & Erdmann 2012:955 [ref. 31980], Kottelat 2013:398 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:157 [ref. 33932], Miesen et al. 2016:93 [ref. 34492], Allen & Erdmann 2016:21 [ref. 35073], Fricke et al. 2019:272 [ref. 36673], Parenti 2021:89 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Amblygobius decussatus (Bleeker 1855). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southwestern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Cocos-Keeling Islands and Indonesia east to Philippines and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.

deilus, Gobius Sauvage [H.-E.] 1880:47 [8] [Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série) v. 4; ref. 3887] Poulo Condor, Vietnam. Holotype: MNHN A-1662. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:31 [ref. 19958]. On p. 8 of separate. •Synonym of Amblygobius sphynx (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Maugé 1986:359 [ref. 6218], Parenti 2021:91 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Amblygobius sphynx (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

delagoae, Gobius Barnard [K. H.] 1937:62, Fig. 3 [Annals of the South African Museum v. 32 (pt 2, no. 6); ref. 197] Inhaca Island, Delagoa Bay, Mozambique, southwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): SAM 19857. •Valid as Vanderhorstia delagoae (Barnard 1937) -- (Goren 1979:54 [ref. 1852], Dor 1984:251 [ref. 29757], Hoese 1986:806 [ref. 5670], Goren & Dor 1994:67 [ref. 25356], Fricke 1999:525 [ref. 24106], Heemstra et al. 2004:3330 [ref. 27945], Shibukawa & Suzuki 2004:116 [ref. 28014], Randall 2007:22 [ref. 29032], Freinschlag & Patzner 2012:42 [ref. 31789], Suzuki & Chen 2014:207 [ref. 33152], Fricke et al. 2018:344 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:163 [ref. 36273], Larson 2022:153 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:26 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Vanderhorstia delagoae (Barnard 1937). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; western Indian Ocean: East Africa to Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes (Rodrigues). 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.

depressus, Gobius Ramsay [E. P.] & Ogilby [J. D.] 1886:4 [Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (Series 2) v. 1 (pt 1); ref. 18604] Bottle and Glass Rocks, Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia. Holotype (unique): AMS B.9758. Type catalog: Koumans 1940:160 [ref. 2676]. •Valid as Callogobius depressus (Ramsay & Ogilby 1886) -- (Kuiter 1993:345 [ref. 23929], Gomon et al. 1994:787 [ref. 22532], Johnson 1999:748 [ref. 25471], Hutchins 2001:42 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3595 [ref. 26293], Hoese & Larson 2006:1632 [ref. 29097], Hoese & Larson 2008:755 [ref. 30660], Larson 2011:237 [ref. 31740], Delventhal & Mooi 2013:156 [ref. 32677], Hoschke et al. 2019:160 [ref. 36626], Parenti 2021:112 [ref. 38603], Delventhal & Mooi 2023:461 [ref. 40434]). Current status: Valid as Callogobius depressus (Ramsay & Ogilby 1886). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, southwestern Pacific: southern Queensland to Western Australia. Habitat: brackish, marine.

depressus, Gobius Kolombatović [G.] 1891:27 [Godicnje Izviesće C. K. Velike Realke u Splitu za Skolsku Godinu, Split v. 1890-1891; ref. 18430] Split, Croatia, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea. Syntypes: NMW 26163-64 (12, 6), 26165-67 (3), 29512 (4). Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Gobius depressus Ramsey & Ogilby 1886. •Synonym of Chromogobius quadrivittatus (Steindachner 1863) in part -- (Miller 1973:492 [ref. 6888], Parenti 2021:117 [ref. 38603]). •Synonym of Chromogobius zebratus (Kolombatović 1891) -- (Miller 1973:492 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1029 [ref. 13677]). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Chromogobius zebratus (Kolombatović 1891). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

devisi, Mugilogobius McCulloch [A. R.] & Ogilby [J. D.] 1919:223, Pl. 36 (fig. 2) [Records of the Australian Museum v. 12 (no. 10); ref. 15219] Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. Lectotype: AMS I.358 (smaller specimen). Paralectotypes: AMS I.358 (1 of 2), ?I.361 (2). Replacement name for Gobius stigmaticus De Vis 1884 [ref. 17383], secondarily preoccupied in Gobius by Smaragdus stigmaticus Poey 1860. See the account of Mugilogobius stigmaticus. Lectotype designation by Larson 2001:189 [ref. 25522] for stigmaticus establishes the same lectotype for devisi. •Synonym of Mugilogobius stigmaticus (De Vis 1884) -- (Larson 2001:185 [ref. 25522], Hoese & Larson 2006:1666 [ref. 29097]). Replacement Name. Current status: Synonym of Mugilogobius stigmaticus (De Vis 1884). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: marine.

dewaali, Gobius Weber [M.] 1897:145 [Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere (Jena) v. 10; ref. 14640] Umgeni River, interior of Kwaulu-Natal, South Africa. Lectotype: ZMA 103238. Paralectotypes: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 415-416 (2, 2); ZMA 103239-40 (5, 12), 103272 (1). Type catalog: Matthes 1964:181 [ref. 19237], Nijssen et al. 1982:99 [ref. 19236]. Lectotype selected by Matthes 1964:181 [ref. 19237]. The original spelling was dewaali. •Valid as Redigobius dewaalii (Weber 1897) -- (Maugé 1986:382 [ref. 6218], Larson 2001:207 [ref. 25522]). •Valid as Redigobius dewaali (Weber 1897) -- (Hoese 1986:803 [ref. 5670], Skelton 1993:366 [ref. 24071], Skelton 2001:365 [ref. 27406] as dewaali, Larson 2010:146 [ref. 30783], Schliewen 2011:212 [ref. 31738], Larson 2022:170 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Valid as Redigobius dewaali (Weber 1897). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Southeastern Africa: Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) north to Mozambique, east to Madagascar. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

diadema, Gobius Steindachner [F.] 1876:232 [184] [Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 74 (1. Abth.); ref. 4225] Hong Kong, South China Sea, western Pacific. Holotype (unique): NMW 29171. On p. 184 of separate. •Valid as Istigobius diadema (Steindachner 1876) -- (Kottelat et al. 1993:146 [ref. 23448], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:638 [ref. 25122], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:248 [ref. 25480], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3598 [ref. 26293] dated 1877, Allen & Adrim 2003:59 [ref. 26830] dated 1877, Hoese & Larson 2006:1660 [ref. 29097] dated 1877, Larson et al. 2008:149 [ref. 29532] dated 1877, Shibukawa 2009:278 [ref. 30449], Allen & Erdmann 2012:979 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:200 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:411 [ref. 32989], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2015:80 [ref. 34319], Moulitharan et al. 2021:673 [ref. 38819], Parenti 2021:187 [ref. 38603], Vadher et al. 2024:24944 [ref. 40956]). Current status: Valid as Istigobius diadema (Steindachner 1876). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: India to northern Australia, north to Hong Kong (China). Habitat: freshwater.

diadematus, Gobius Rüppell [W. P. E. S.] 1830:137 [Atlas zu der Reise im nördlichen Africa. Fische des Rothen Meeres; ref. 3843] Suez, Suez Governorate, Egypt, Gulf of Suez, Red Sea. Holotype (unique): SMF 1786. •Valid as Hetereleotris diademata (Rüppell 1830) -- (Dor 1984:247 [ref. 29757], Hoese 1986:9 [ref. 5996], Goren & Dor 1994:65 [ref. 25356], Hoese & Larson 2005:15 [ref. 28571], Shibukawa 2010:90 [ref. 30808], Kovačić & Bogorodsky 2014.:480 [ref. 33169], Kovačić et al. 2014:123 [ref. 33446], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[7] 245 [ref. 36492], Golani & Fricke 2018:156 [ref. 36273], Kovačić et al. 2019:188 [ref. 36570], Kovačić et al. 2019:504 [ref. 36728], Parenti 2021:185 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:106 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:17 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Hetereleotris diademata (Rüppell 1830). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea endemic. Habitat: marine.

dispar, Gobius Peters [W. (C. H.)] 1868:264 [Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1868; ref. 3442] Lake Buhi and Lake Batu, Kolabos and Lebmanan brooks, Albay Province Luzon Island, Philippines. Syntypes: (several) ?BMNH 1868.7.10.? (4); ZMB 6700 (11), 6702-03 (8, 4) Batu, 6737-38 (2) Buhi. •Valid as Redigobius dispar (Peters 1868) -- (Kottelat et al. 1993:151 [ref. 23448], Larson 2001:207 [ref. 25522], Larson 2010:150 [ref. 30783], Kottelat 2013:423 [ref. 32989], Jamandre 2023:169 [ref. 40455]). Current status: Valid as Redigobius dispar (Peters 1868). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Southeast Asia: Philippines. Habitat: freshwater.

djiddensis, Gobius Bonnaterre [J. P.] (ex Forsskål) 1788:64 [Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie; ref. 4940] Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea. No types known. Based on Gobius anguillaris (non Linnaeus 1758) of Forsskål 1775:x, 23 [ref. 1351]. Not used as valid after 1899; therefore reversal of priority in favor of Gobius arabicus Gmelin 1789 is followed (Art. 23.9).-- (Fricke 2008:53 [ref. 30182], Parenti 2021:123 [ref. 38603]). •Synonym of Cryptocentroides arabicus (Gmelin 1789) -- (Fricke 2008:53 [ref. 30182], Parenti 2021:123 [ref. 38603]). Nomen Oblitum. Current status: Synonym of Cryptocentroides arabicus (Gmelin 1789). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

dolichocephalus, Gobius Cope [E. D.] 1867:403 [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (New Series) v. 13 (pt 3) (art. 13); ref. 18027] Near Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico. No types known. Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:106 [ref. 13621] as none at ANSP. •Synonym of Awaous banana (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Watson 1996:3 [ref. 22211], Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:658 [ref. 27061]). Current status: Synonym of Awaous banana (Valenciennes 1837). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

dolichognathus, Gobius Hilgendorf [F. M.] 1879:108 [Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1879; ref. 21467] Japan. Syntypes: ZMB 10651, 10654. •Valid as Chasmichthys dolichognathus (Hilgendorf 1879) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:386 [ref. 7348], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:275 [ref. 6441], Shimizu 2001:39 [ref. 25799], Choi et al. 2003:399, 659 [ref. 26218]). •Synonym of Chaenogobius annularis Gill 1859 -- (Stevenson 2000:835 [ref. 24583], Stevenson 2002:259 [ref. 26489]). Current status: Synonym of Chaenogobius annularis Gill 1859. Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater.

doriae, Gobius Günther [A.] 1868:265 [1], Pl. 12 (fig. A) [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 4) v. 1 (no. 4) (art. 34); ref. 14074] Sarawak state, Borneo, East Malaysia. Syntypes: BMNH 1868.1.28.17-19 (3), MSNG 12657 (2), ZMB 6790 (1). Type catalog: Tortonese 1963:343 [ref. 10350]. On p. 1 of separate. •Valid as Brachygobius doriae (Günther 1868) -- (Miller 1989:380 [ref. 13540], Roberts 1989:167 [ref. 6439], Kottelat et al. 1993:143 [ref. 23448], Kottelat & Lim 1996:247 [ref. 23210], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:636 [ref. 25122], Larson 2001:51 [ref. 25522], Doi et al. 2001:16 [ref. 25691], Larson & Murdy 2001:3600 [ref. 26293], Tan & Lim 2004:111 [ref. 27716], Larson et al. 2008:141 [ref. 29532], Kottelat 2013:403 [ref. 32989], Sulaiman et al. 2018:46 [ref. 35802]). Current status: Valid as Brachygobius doriae (Günther 1868). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Borneo and Natuna Island, Malaysia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

douglasi, Gobius Saville-Kent [W.] 1893:310, Pl. 16 (fig. 12) [The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; its products and potentialities; ref. 13269] Queensland, Australia. No types known. •Synonym of Gobiodon histrio (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Hoese & Larson 2006:1656 [ref. 29097]). •Synonym of Gobiodon erythrospilus Bleeker 1875 -- (Shibukawa et al. 2013:153 [ref. 32951]). Current status: Synonym of Gobiodon erythrospilus Bleeker 1875. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

durbanensis, Gobius Barnard [K. H.] 1927:70 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 9) v. 20 (no. 115) (art. 8); ref. 193] Durban Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, southwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): SAM 17356. Also appeared as new in Barnard 1927:815 [ref. 194]. •Valid as Mugilogobius durbanensis (Barnard 1927) -- (Hoese 1986:795 [ref. 5670], Maugé 1986:376 [ref. 6218], Huang et al. 2016:13 [ref. 34500] with question). •Synonym of Mugilogobius mertoni (Weber 1911) -- (Larson 2001:143 [ref. 25522], Kottelat 2013:413 [ref. 32989], Huang et al. 2013:101 [ref. 33734], Larson 2022:162 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Mugilogobius mertoni (Weber 1911). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

ebriosus, Gobius Parr [A. E.] 1930:119, Fig. 32 [Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection Yale University v. 3 (art. 4); ref. 3370] Rum Cay, Bahamas. Holotype: YPM 2614. Paratypes: YPM 2615 (3, 1 c&s). Type catalog: Moore & Boardman 1991:12 [ref. 16741]. •Synonym of Priolepis hipoliti (Metzelaar 1922) -- (D. Hoese/H.K. Larson data, Hoese et al. 2015:539 [ref. 33990]). Current status: Synonym of Priolepis hipoliti (Metzelaar 1922). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

echinocephalus, Gobius Rüppell [W. P. E. S.] 1830:136, Pl. 34 (fig. 3) [Atlas zu der Reise im nördlichen Africa. Fische des Rothen Meeres; ref. 3843] Massawa, Eritrea, Red Sea. Syntypes or possible types: BMNH 1860.12.3.2-3 (2); SMF 1722 (6); ZMB 2087-89 (1, 1, 1), 6553 (1), 15589 (1). Also in Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:134 [ref. 1006]. •Valid as Paragobiodon echinocephalus (Rüppell 1830) -- (Dor 1984:249 [ref. 29757], Yoshino & Yamamoto in Masuda et al. 1984:266 [ref. 6441], Maugé 1986:379 [ref. 6218], Hoese 1986:798 [ref. 5670], Allen & Swainston 1988:136 [ref. 25477], Randall et al. 1990:405 [ref. 15987], Goren & Dor 1994:65 [ref. 25356], Allen 1997:218 [ref. 23977], Larson & Williams 1997:369 [ref. 23967], Randall et al. 1997:405 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:257 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:518 [ref. 24106], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:639 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1185 [ref. 25182], Randall & Earle 2000:19 [ref. 25806], Allen 2000:121 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3598 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1185 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:59 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:645 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:28 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:544 [ref. 28239], Herler & Hilgers 2005:123 [ref. 28528], Hoese & Larson 2006:1671 [ref. 29097], Larson et al. 2008:150 [ref. 29532], Fricke et al. 2009:102 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:216 [ref. 31256], Suzuki & Randall 2011:155 [ref. 31616], Allen & Erdmann 2012:902 [ref. 31980]. Larson et al. 2013:203 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:169 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:8 [ref. 33988] dated 1828, Prokofiev 2016:652 [ref. 35020], Fricke et al. 2018:337 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:158 [ref. 36273], Larson 2022:119 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:21 [ref. 40247], Sato et al. 2023:15 [ref. 40019]). Current status: Valid as Paragobiodon echinocephalus (Rüppell 1830). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Tuamotu Archipelago and Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Japan, south to Queensland (Australia), New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island (Australia), and Tonga. Habitat: marine.

ehrenbergii, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:63 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Shipped from Alexandria, Egypt (probably originating from Red Sea?). Syntypes: MNHN 0000-1398 (2). •Valid as Gobius ehrenbergii Valenciennes 1837 -- (Miller 1973:514 [ref. 6888]). •Synonym of Istigobius ornatus (Rüppell 1830) -- (Murdy & Hoese 1985:9 [ref. 5237], Kottelat 2013:411 [ref. 32989], Larson 2022:111 [ref. 39971], Parenti 2021:188 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Istigobius ornatus (Rüppell 1830). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

eigenmanni, Gobius Garman [S.] 1896:88, Pl. 3 (fig. 1) [Bulletin of the Laboratory of Natural Science University of Iowa v. 4; ref. 14605] Off Key West, Florida, U.S.A., depth 60 fathoms. Holotype: USNM 231318 [ex State Univ. Iowa 14965]. Named for C. H. Eigenmann and R. S. Eigenmann, so species epithet corrected to eigenmannorum, now in use. •Valid as Bollmannia eigenmannorum (Garman 1896) (often as eigenmanni) -- (Boschung 1992:163 [ref. 23239], Murdy & Hoese 2003:1793 [ref. 27111], Ross & Rhode 2004:303 [ref. 27789], Nelson et al. 2004:169 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:675 [ref. 28815], Van Tassell 2011:167 [ref. 31732], Van Tassell et al. 2012:79 [ref. 31948], Page et al. 2013:175 [ref. 32708], Page et al. 2023:121 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Bollmannia eigenmannorum (Garman 1896). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic. Habitat: marine.

ekstromii, Gobius Günther [A.] 1861:57 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 3; ref. 1964] Gotha River, Sweden (stomach content). Holotype (unique): BMNH not found. Original as ekströmii, umlaut is not corrected. •Synonym of Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas 1770) -- (Miller 1973:506 [ref. 6888] as eckstromii, Kottelat 1997:180 [ref. 22952], Vasil'eva 1998:144 [ref. 23591] as eckstromii). Current status: Synonym of Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas 1770). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

elapoides, Gobius Günther [A.] 1872:665, Pl. 63 (fig. D) [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871 (pt 3) (art. 1) (for 21 Nov. 1871); ref. 1997] Locality unknown, probably Japan. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1872.1.29.1. •Valid as Pterogobius elapoides (Günther 1872) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:369 [ref. 7348], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:279 [ref. 6441], Zhu 1995:184 [ref. 25213], Nakabo 2000:1209 [ref. 25182], Shinohara et al. 2000:183 [ref. 25987], Shimizu 2001:40 [ref. 25799], Nakabo 2002:1209 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:399, 663 [ref. 26218], Akihito et al. 2008:8, 14 [ref. 30094], Shibukawa & Iwata 2013:49 [ref. 32580], Matsui et al. 2014:6 [ref. 33344], Kim et al. 2020:173 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:107 [ref. 37637]). Current status: Valid as Pterogobius elapoides (Günther 1872). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Korea and Japan. Habitat: marine.

elegans, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] (ex Kuhl & van Hasselt) in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:58 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Java, Indonesia; Vanikoro, Santa Cruz Islands; New Guinea; Mumbai, India. Syntypes: MNHN A-1401 (1, primary specimen) Java, A.1398 (1) Mumbai, A-1399 (2) New Guinea; RMNH 1873 (1) Java, 1851 (5). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:31 [ref. 19958] as holotype and paratypes. •Synonym of Istigobius ornatus (Rüppell 1830) -- (Murdy & Hoese 1985:9 [ref. 5237], Maugé 1986:374 [ref. 6218], Kottelat 2013:411 [ref. 32989], Parenti 2021:188 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:111 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Istigobius ornatus (Rüppell 1830). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

eleotrioides, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1849:25 [Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. v. 22 [6]; ref. 319] Jakarta, Java, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): RMNH 4539 (1 of 4). RMNH 4539 contains the probable holotype. •Synonym of Psammogobius biocellatus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Kottelat 2013:421 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Psammogobius biocellatus (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

eleotris, Gobius Linnaeus [C.] 1758:263 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] China. Syntypes: ?ZMUU Linn. Coll. 105 (1). Type catalog: Wheeler 1991:185-186, Fig. 23 [ref. 20102]. Also appeared in Linnaeus 1759:250 [ref. 24770]. Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae.

elmeri, Gobius Herre [A. W. C. T.] 1940:358, Pl. 1 [Philippine Journal of Science v. 72 (no. 4); ref. 11010] Tide pool at Nasugbu, Batangas Province, Luzon Island, Philippines. Holotype (unique): CAS-SU 32989. Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:113 [ref. 12291]. •Synonym of Bathygobius cocosensis (Bleeker 1854) -- (Kottelat 2013:401 [ref. 32989], Parenti 2021:100 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Bathygobius cocosensis (Bleeker 1854). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

elongatus, Gobius Cuvier [G.] 1816:255 [Le Règne Animal; ref. 993] Tranquebar [= Tharangambadi], India. No types known. Replacement name for Eleotris lanceolatus Bloch & Schneider 1801, preoccupied in Gobius by Gobius lanceolatus Bloch 1783. Proposed as ".--Gob. Elongatus, nob. eleotris lanceolata, Schn. Pl. 15." •Valid as Pseudapocryptes elongatus (Cuvier 1816) -- (Ferraris 1995:984 [ref. 22402], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:639 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1259 [ref. 25182], Larson & Murdy 2001:3602 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1259 [ref. 26193], Ataur Rahman 2003:317 [ref. 31338], Tan & Lim 2004:111 [ref. 27716], Larson et al. 2008:140 [ref. 29532], Murdy 2011:104 [ref. 31728], Kottelat 2013:421 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:193 [ref. 34464], Huang et al. 2014:109 [ref. 33161], Murdy & Jaafar 2017:29 [ref. 35561], Eagderi et al. 2019:66 [ref. 37020], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 14 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:550 [ref. 37272], Taki et al. 2021:480 [ref. 39830]). Replacement Name. Current status: Valid as Pseudapocryptes elongatus (Cuvier 1816). Oxudercidae: Oxudercinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf east to Society Islands, north to China. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

elongatus, Gobius Canestrini [G.] 1862:150, Pl. 8 (figs. 5-5d) [Archivio per la Zoologia, l'Anatomia e la Fisiologia v. 1 (no. 2) (for 1861); ref. 17322] Gulf of Genoa, Italy, Mediterranean Sea. Syntypes: (4) MSNG 12646 (1, plus 3 in different condition). Type catalog: Tortonese 1963:343 [ref. 10350]. Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Gobius elongatus Cuvier 1816. The name elongatus Canestrini should not be used. •Synonym of Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas 1770), [incorrectly] as a valid subspecies -- (Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1074 [ref. 13677], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:756 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:145 [ref. 23591], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:183 [ref. 28369]). •Synonym of Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas 1770) -- (Miller 1973:506 [ref. 6888], Kottelat 1997:180 [ref. 22952], Vasil'eva 2003:S52 [ref. 28444], Fricke et al. 2007:107 [ref. 29533], Parin et al. 2014:496 [ref. 33547]). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas 1770). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

emblematicus, Gobius Jordan [D. S.] & Gilbert [C. H.] 1882:330 [Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission v. 1 (for 1881); ref. 2471] Panama Bay, (Pacific) Panama. Neotype: CAS-SU 33208. Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:115 [ref. 12291]. Neotype designated in Ginsburg 1939:55 [ref. 12362]. •Valid as Microgobius emblematicus (Jordan & Gilbert 1882) -- (Birdsong 1981:293 [ref. 5425], Allen & Robertson 1994:268 [ref. 22193], Hoese in Fischer et al. 1995:1135 [ref. 22829], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:149 [ref. 24555], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:451 [ref. 24550], Nelson et al. 2004:172 [ref. 27807], Van Tassell 2011:168 [ref. 31732], Tornabene et al. 2012:41 [ref. 32138], Page et al. 2013:178 [ref. 32708], Love et al. 2021:206 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:123 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Microgobius emblematicus (Jordan & Gilbert 1882). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to northern Peru, including mouth of Gulf of California (Mexico). Habitat: brackish, marine.

encaeomus, Gobius Jordan [D. S.] & Gilbert [C. H.] 1883:611 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 5 (no. 328); ref. 2473] Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, U.S.A. Syntypes: (3) USNM 29673 (1). •Synonym of Ctenogobius boleosoma (Jordan & Gilbert 1882) -- (Pezold 2022:84 [ref. 39351]). Current status: Synonym of Ctenogobius boleosoma (Jordan & Gilbert 1882). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

ephippiatus, Gobius Lowe [R. T.] 1839:84 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1839 (pt 7); ref. 2829] Madeira, eastern Atlantic. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. •Valid as Thorogobius ephippiatus (Lowe 1839) -- (Miller 1973:512 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1082 [ref. 13677], Miller 1990:947 [ref. 19376], Ahnelt & Kovačić 1997:150 [ref. 23095], Santos et al. 1997:103 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:105 [ref. 24952], Vacchi et al. 1999:326 [ref. 24369], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:136 [ref. 26753], Fricke et al. 2007:107 [ref. 29533], Sauberer & Ahnelt 2008:278 [ref. 29915], Bañon et al. 2010:21 [ref. 31029], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:67 [ref. 36649], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:188 [ref. 31737], Kovačić et al. 2012:441 [ref. 32861], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2841 [ref. 34618], Sauberer et al. 2018:360 [ref. 35962], Artüz & Fricke 2019:560 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:184 [ref. 37250], Trkov et al. 2019:65 [ref. 36880], Bariche & Fricke 2020:72 [ref. 37515], Kovačić 2020:78 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:26 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:92 [ref. 38887], Carballo et al. 2021:122 [ref. 39250], Golani 2021:77 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:43 [ref. 39014], Ragkousis et al. 2021:8 [ref. 38358], Borg et al. 2022:216 [ref. 39630], Kovačić et al. 2022: 86 [ref. 39303], Renoult et al. 2022:215 [ref. 39288]). Current status: Valid as Thorogobius ephippiatus (Lowe 1839). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; eastern Atlantic: Norway south to Morocco, including Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands. Habitat: marine.

eremius, Gobius Zietz [A. H. C.] 1896:180, Pl. 16 (fig. 5) [Report on the work of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia. Part 2; ref. 14621] Coward Spring, in a small pool of water around an artesian well, central Australia. Lectotype: SAMA F525. Paralectotypes: SAMA F7674 (5, 2 c&s). Type catalog: Glover 1976:174 [ref. 19449]. Lectotype selected by Larson 1995:22 [ref. 22270]. •Valid as Chlamydogobius eremius (Zietz 1896) -- (Larson 2001:63 [ref. 25522], Unmack 2001:1064 [ref. 25797], Allen et al. 2002:260 [ref. 25930], Hammer & Walker 2004:89 [ref. 28129], Hoese & Larson 2006:1635 [ref. 29097], Hammer et al. 2012:65 [ref. 32389]). Current status: Valid as Chlamydogobius eremius (Zietz 1896). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: South Australia, Australia. Habitat: freshwater.

erythrophaios, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1849:29 [Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. v. 22 [6]; ref. 319] Bima, Sumbawa Island, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia. Syntypes: RMNH 6264 (2 or 3 of 3). Appeared first in Bleeker 1848:637 [ref. 315] without distinguishing features. •Synonym of Gobiodon quinquestrigatus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Parenti 2021:171 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Gobiodon quinquestrigatus (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

eurycephalus, Gobius Kessler [K. F.] 1874:281 [91] [Trudy St.-Peterburgskogo Obscestva Estestvoispytatelej = Travaux de la Société des Naturalistes de St. Pétersbourg. v. 5; ref. 18397] Enikale near Kerch, Crimea, Ukraine. Lectotype: ZIN 2234. Paralectotypes: ZIN 2219 (1). On p. 91 of separate. Lectotype selected by Pinchuk 1977:588 [ref. 8999]. •Questionably a synonym of Neogobius cephalarges (Pallas 1814) -- (Berg 1949:1087 [ref. 20662], Miller 1973:502 [ref. 6888]). •Synonym of Neogobius platyrostris (Pallas 1814), but a valid subspecies -- (Pinchuk 1977:588 [ref. 8999], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:756 [ref. 24702]). •Valid as Neogobius eurycephalus (Kessler 1874) -- (Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1059 [ref. 13677], Kottelat 1997:178 [ref. 22952], Vasil'eva 1998:138 [ref. 23591], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:134 [ref. 26753], Pinchuk et al. 2003:212 [ref. 27348], Vasil'eva 2003:S49 [ref. 28444], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:229 [ref. 28183], Fricke et al. 2007:105 [ref. 29533], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:578 [ref. 29996], Vasil'eva 2007:161 [ref. 30517], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:187 [ref. 31737]). •Valid as Ponticola eurycephalus (Kessler 1874) -- (Neilson & Stepien 2009:97 [ref. 30497], Medvedev et al. 2013:705 [ref. 35208], Stepien & Neilson 2013:2 [ref. 35325], Parin et al. 2014:497 [ref. 33547], Çiçek et al. 2015:152 [ref. 35151], Vasil'eva et al. 2016:9 [ref. 34347], Özuluğ & Saç 2019:28 [ref. 36599], Çiçek et al. 2020:256 [ref. 37644], Manilo 2020:70 [ref. 37795], Abliazov et al. 2021:11 [ref. 38576], Parenti 2021:74 [ref. 38603], Çiçek et al. 2023:432 [ref. 40625], Çiçek et al. 2024:310 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Ponticola eurycephalus (Kessler 1874). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eurasia: Black Sea basin and Sea of Azov. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

eurystomus, Gobius Kessler [K. F.] 1877:22, Pl. 1 (fig. 2) [The Aralo-Caspian Expedition; ref. 2597] Southern Caspian Sea, 40°07'N, 0°05'E, depth 56-105 feet [8-15 Russian fathoms]. Syntypes: (20) BMNH 1897.7.5.8-9 (2); ZIN 10904-05 (1, 2); ?NMW 29176 (1). •Synonym of Neogobius syrman (Nordmann 1840), but a valid subspecies eurystomus Kessler 1877 -- (Berg 1949:1089 [ref. 20662], Mitrofanov & Dukravec 1989:277 [ref. 37748]). •Synonym of Neogobius syrman (Nordmann 1840) -- (Coad 1995:31 [ref. 23608], Vasil'eva 1998:143 [ref. 23591], Pinchuk et al. 2003:377 [ref. 27348]). •Synonym of Ponticola syrman (Nordmann 1840) -- (Neilson & Stepien 2009:96 [ref. 30487], Esmaeili et al. 2010:378 [ref. 33391] as a valid subspecies, Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:899 [ref. 34062] as a valid subspecies, Esmaeili et al. 2018:67 [ref. 36089] possibly as a valid subspecies, Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:245 [ref. 37983], Parenti 2021:76 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Ponticola syrman (Nordmann 1840). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eurasia: Caspian Sea (if valid). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

exanthematosus, Gobius Pallas [P. S.] 1814:160 [Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica v. 3; ref. 3351] Shores of Crimea, Ukraine. No types known. Misspelled exanthematicus by Carrus 1893:678 [ref. 17975]. •Synonym of Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas 1814) -- (Berg 1949:1083 [ref. 20662], Miller 1973:503 [ref. 6888], Kottelat 1997:179 [ref. 22952], Vasil'eva 1998:141 [ref. 23591], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:134 [ref. 26753], Pinchuk et al. 2003:293 [ref. 27349], Vasil'eva 2003:S50 [ref. 28444], Neilson & Stepien 2009:96 [ref. 30487], Parin et al. 2014:494 [ref. 33547], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:237 [ref. 37983], Parenti 2021:74 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas 1814). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

fagei, Gobius de Buen [F.] 1923:160, 223, Figs. 56-57 [Memorias del Instituto Español de Oceanografia, Madrid v. 3, Mem. 3a; ref. 15468] Malaga, Spain, western Mediterranean Sea. No types known. •Synonym of Pomatoschistus norvegicus (Collett 1902) -- (Miller 1973:509 [ref. 6888], Webb & Miller 1974:736 [ref. 22419]). Current status: Synonym of Pomatoschistus norvegicus (Collett 1902). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: marine.

fallax, Gobius Sarato [C.] 1889:506 [Gazette Nice Alpes Maritimes No. 16 (Apr. 21); ref. 18655] Nice, France, northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Syntypes: MSNG CE 12640 (3); MNHN 1888-0261 to 0263 (1, 1, 1); ZMO 1133 (2). Type catalog: Pethon 1969:10 [ref. 19268], Bauchot et al. 1991:31 [ref. 19958]. Specimens ZMUO J1133 (2) are labeled syntypes but they are not types according to Pethon 1969:1, 10 [ref. 19268]. •Valid as Gobius fallax Sarato 1889 -- (Miller 1973:486 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1040 [ref. 13677], Miller 1990:935 [ref. 19376], Al-Hassan 1999:196 [ref. 25945], Kovačić & Miller 2000:235 [ref. 25014], Herler et al. 2005:1059 [ref. 28118], Fricke et al. 2007:103 [ref. 29533], Kovačić & Golani 2007:90 [ref. 39536], Kovačić & Golani 2008:418 [ref. 33214]. Lipej & Dulčić 2010:64 [ref. 36649], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:186 [ref. 31737], Kovačić et al. 2011:248 [ref. 32868], Kovačić et al. 2012:439 [ref. 32861], Kovačić & Šanda 2016:1121 [ref. 34173], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2840 [ref. 34618], Kovačić & Schembri 2019:290 [ref. 36757], Kovačić 2020:77 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:24 [ref. 37519], Golani 2021:74 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:40 [ref. 39014], Parenti 2021:177 [ref. 38603], Kovačić et al. 2022: 56 [ref. 39303], Renoult et al. 2022:98 [ref. 39288]). Current status: Valid as Gobius fallax Sarato 1889. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; eastern Atlantic: ?Canary Islands. Habitat: marine.

fasciapectoralis, Gobius Fowler [H. W.] 1938:42, Fig. 5 [Hong Kong Naturalist No. 6, Suppl.; ref. 17760] Hong Kong. Holotype (unique): ANSP 68296. Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:106 [ref. 13621]. •Synonym of Tridentiger trigonocephalus (Gill 1859) -- (Akihito & Sakamoto 1989:101 [ref. 14124], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:452 [ref. 23876]). Current status: Synonym of Tridentiger trigonocephalus (Gill 1859). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

fasciatopunctatus, Gobius Richardson [J.] 1845:145, Pl. 62 (figs. 13-14) [Ichthyology.--Part 3. The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Sulphur.; ref. 20575] Canton, China. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1968.5.11.18. Originally fasciato-punctatus. •Valid as Glossogobius fasciatopunctatus (Richardson 1845) -- (Zheng 1989:346 [ref. 21202], Endruweit 2024:79 [ref. 41040]). •Synonym of Glossogobius olivaceus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:373 [ref. 7348], Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:274 [ref. 26639], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:460 [ref. 23876], Vasil'eva 1998:134 [ref. 23591], Kottelat 2013:408 [ref. 32989], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:193 [ref. 35257], Kwun 2020:33 [ref. 37427], Parenti 2021:166 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Glossogobius olivaceus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

fasciatus, Gobius Cocco [A.] 1884-85:113 [Naturalista Siciliano [Il Naturalista Siciliano, Giornale di scienze naturali] v. 4; ref. 4874] Sea of Messina, Sicily, Italy, Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Appeared as name only in Cocco 1846:750 [ref. 26448]. •Questionably the same as Zebrus zebrus (Risso 1827) -- (Miller 1973:512 [ref. 6888]). Current status: Uncertain as Zebrus zebrus (Risso 1827). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

fasciatus, Gobius Fourmanoir [P.] & Crosnier [A.] 1964:22, Fig. 12 [Cahiers O. R. S. T. O. M. (Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer) Série Océanographie No. 6 (1963); ref. 5568] Nosy Be [Nossi-Bé], Mozambique Channel, Madagascar. Syntypes: IRSMNB (2) probably lost. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:56 [ref. 19958]. Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Gobius fasciatus Cocco 1885. Also a secondary homonym of Apocryptes fasciatus Macleay 1883. Appeared previously as name only in caption of Fourmanoir 1963:Pl. 1 A [ref. 34925]. •Synonym of Amblygobius semicinctus (Bennett 1833) -- (Larson 2022:42 [ref. 39971], Parenti 2021:90 [ref. 38603]). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Amblygobius semicinctus (Bennett 1833). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

ferrugineus, Gobius Kolombatović [G.] 1891:18 [Godicnje Izviesće C. K. Velike Realke u Splitu za Skolsku Godinu, Split v. 1890-1891; ref. 18430] Dalmatia, Croatia, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea. Syntypes: ?NMW 29363-64 (12, 4), 37509-19 (11), 77868 (15). •Synonym of Pomatoschistus marmoratus (Risso 1810) -- (Miller 1973:508 [ref. 6888], Kottelat 1997:180 [ref. 22952], Vasil'eva 1998:143 [ref. 23591]). Current status: Synonym of Pomatoschistus marmoratus (Risso 1810). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

festivus, Gobius De Vis [C. W.] 1884:687 [Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales v. 9 (pt 3); ref. 17383] Cape York, Queensland, Australia. Syntypes: AMS I.398, QM I.9934 (8, 1, 4, 10). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:175 [ref. 2676]. •Synonym of Yongeichthys nebulosus (Forsskål 1775) -- (Hoese & Larson 2006:1697 [ref. 29097], Kottelat 2013:432 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Yongeichthys nebulosus (Forsskål 1775). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

filamentosus, Gobius Risso [A.] 1827:285 [Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale v. 3; ref. 3757] Probably near Nice, France, northwestern Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:56 [ref. 19958]. •Possible synonym of Lesueurigobius suerii (Risso 1810) -- (Miller 1973:499 [ref. 6888], Miller 1990:941 [ref. 19376]). •Questionably a synonym of Zosterisessor ophiocephalus (Pallas 1814) -- (Miller 1973:514 [ref. 6888], Kottelat 1997:181 [ref. 22952], Pinchuk et al. in Miller 2004:5 [ref. 27853]). •Questionably a synonym of Gobius ophiocephalus Pallas 1814 -- (Parenti 2021:179 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Uncertain as Gobius ophiocephalus Pallas 1814. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

filamentosus, Gobius Castelnau [F. L.] 1875:19 [Official Record, containing Introduction, Catalogues, Official Awards of the Commissioners, Report and Recommendations of the Experts, and Essays and Statistics on the Social and Economic Resources of the Colony of Victoria.; ref. 768] Adelaide, South Australia. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-1089. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:32 [ref. 19958]. Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Gobius filamentosus Risso 1827. •Synonym of Arenigobius bifrenatus (Kner 1865) -- (Gomon et al. 1994:784 [ref. 22532], Hoese & Larson 2006:1624 [ref. 29097], Kuiter 2018:86 [ref. 36369], Parenti 2021:94 [ref. 38603]). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Arenigobius bifrenatus (Kner 1865). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

filamentosus, Gobius Sauvage [H.-E.] 1883:157 [14] [Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série) v. 7; ref. 3897] New Caledonia. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-4886. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:31 [ref. 19958]. On p. 14 of separate. Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Gobius filamentosus Risso 1827 and Castelnau 1875, replaced by Drombus whitleyi Fowler 1931. •Synonym of Bathygobius fuscus (Rüppell 1830) -- (Akihito & Meguro 1980:221 [ref. 6920], Fricke & Kulbicki 2006:349 [ref. 28867], Kottelat 2013:402 [ref. 32989], Parenti 2021:101 [ref. 38603]). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Bathygobius fuscus (Rüppell 1830). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

filifer, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:106 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Indian seas. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-0994. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:32 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Cryptocentrus filifer (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:363 [ref. 7348], Yanagisawa 1978:276 [ref. 7028], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:258 [ref. 6441], Randall 1995:333 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:213 [ref. 23922], Cheng & Zhou 1997:376 [ref. 26385], Fricke 1999:507 [ref. 24106], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:636 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1225 [ref. 25182], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:245 [ref. 25480], Larson & Murdy 2001:3596 [ref. 26293], Shimizu 2001:41 [ref. 25799], Wang et al. 2001:265 [ref. 26566] with authors as Cuvier & Valenciennes, Nakabo 2002:1225 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:399, 660 [ref. 26218], Matsui et al. 2014:11 [ref. 33344], Ali et al. 2018:337 [ref. 36183], Larson 2022:73 [ref. 39971]). •Valid as Myersina filifer (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Winterbottom 2002:70 [ref. 25955], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S119 [ref. 27377], Hoese & Larson 2004:168 [ref. 28074], Shibukawa & Satapoomin 2006:29 [ref. 28710], Larson et al. 2008:150 [ref. 29532], Fricke et al. 2009:102 [ref. 30213], Allen & Erdmann 2012:880 [ref. 31980], Yoshida et al. 2013:192 [ref. 34464], Prokofiev 2016:648 [ref. 35020], Greenfield & Randall 2018:98 [ref. 36091], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:263 [ref. 36460], Eagderi et al. 2019:65 [ref. 37020], Roy et al. 2019:296 [ref. 36920], Kim et al. 2020:173 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:106 [ref. 37637]). Current status: Valid as Myersina filifer (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf east to Indonesia, north to Korea and Japan; possibly western Mascarenes (La Réunion). Habitat: marine.

filosus, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:78 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-0989 (3). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:32 [ref. 19958]. •Synonym of Glossogobius kokius (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Maugé 1986:369 [ref. 6218], Fricke 1999:512 [ref. 24106], Hoese & Hammer 2021:110 [ref. 38350], Parenti 2021:163 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:93 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Glossogobius kokius (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

flavescens, Gobius Fabricius [J. C.] 1779:322 [Reise nach Norwegen mit Bemerkungen aus der Naturhistorie und Oekonomie; ref. 18074] Walderhog, 11 mi. northeast of Christiansund (Kristiansund), Romsdal, Norway. No types known. Original as flauescens in historical typeset which equals flavescens; common recent usage is flavescens; that spelling can be maintained. Neotype designated by Fricke 1999:48 [ref. 24101], but withdrawn in Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. •Valid as Gobiusculus flavescens (Fabricius 1779) -- (Miller 1973:496 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1046 [ref. 13677], McKay & Miller 1997:1464 [ref. 24951], Fricke 1999:47 [ref. 24101], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:178 [ref. 26753], Huyse et al. 2004:327 [ref. 27956], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:186 [ref. 31737], Psomadakis et al. 2012:17 [ref. 33457], Parin et al. 2014:484 [ref. 33547], Carneiro et al. 2019:182 [ref. 37250], Bañón & Maño 2021:91 [ref. 38887]). •Valid as Pomatoschistus flavescens (Fabricius 1779) -- (Thacker et al. 2018:[8] [ref. 36082]). Current status: Valid as Pomatoschistus flavescens (Fabricius 1779). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Baltic Sea; North Sea; ?western Mediterranean Sea (rare); eastern Atlantic: Faroes and Norway south to Portugal. Habitat: brackish, marine.

flavescens, Gobius De Vis [C. W.] 1884:689 [Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales v. 9 (pt 3); ref. 17383] Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. Syntypes: AMS I.434 (2). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:161 [ref. 2676]. Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Gobius flavescens Fabricius 1779, replaced by Parvigobius immeritus Whitley 1930. •Synonym of Redigobius bikolanus (Herre 1927) -- (Larson 2001:205 [ref. 25522], Hoese & Larson 2006:1681 [ref. 29097], Larson 2010:134 [ref. 30783], Kottelat 2013:423 [ref. 32989]). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Redigobius bikolanus (Herre 1927). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

flavidus, Gobius Macleay [W.] 1881:602 [Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales v. 5 (pt 4); ref. 2869] Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia. Syntypes: MAMU F1156 (label only, specimen missing). Type catalog: Stanbury 1969:209 [ref. 19518]. Correct original spelling was kreftii, not named for G. Krefft (unused since 1919), but krefftii has become the correct spelling by prevailing usage (Art. 3.3.1). •Synonym of Bathygobius kreftii (Steindachner 1866) -- (Hoese & Larson 2006:1628 [ref. 29097], Parenti 2021:102 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Bathygobius krefftii (Steindachner 1866). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

flavimanus, Gobius Temminck [C. J.] & Schlegel [H.] 1845:141, Pl. 74 (fig. 1) [Fauna Japonica Parts 7-9; ref. 4373] River mouths of Nagasaki Bay, Japan. Lectotype: RMNH 1905a. Paralectotypes: RMNH 1095b (1), 1096-97 (1, 15). Lectotype selected by Boeseman 1947:121 [ref. 12876]; see also other specimens discussed by Boeseman 1947:121 [ref. 12876]. •Synonym of Gymnogobius macrognathos (Bleeker 1860) -- (Berg 1949:1073 [ref. 20662] as macrognathus). •Valid as Acentrogobius flavimanus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845) -- (Berg 1949:1076 [ref. 20662]). •Valid as Acanthogobius flavimanus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845) -- (Okada 1961:671 [ref. 6363], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:367 [ref. 7348], Lee et al. 1980:785 [ref. 22416], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:261 [ref. 9277], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:278 [ref. 6441], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:624 [ref. 25598], Gomon et al. 1994:782 [ref. 22532], Takahashi 1996:2 [ref. 24363], Cheng & Zhou 1997:384 [ref. 26385], Kim 1997:438 [ref. 24032], Takahashi et al. 1997:48 [ref. 24971], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:752 [ref. 24702], Kuiter 1997:354 [ref. 25488], Vasil'eva 1998:125 [ref. 23591], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:13 [ref. 24670], Sato et al. 1998:41 [ref. 24972], Mizuno et al. 1999:11 [ref. 25311], Fuller et al. 1999:458 [ref. 25838], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:635 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1207 [ref. 25182], Lee 2001:50 [ref. 25335], Pietsch et al. 2001:145 [ref. 25688], Sakai et al. 2001:108 [ref. 25693], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:47 [ref. 26178], Wang et al. 2001:267 [ref. 26566], Kim & Park 2002:361 [ref. 25913], Nakabo 2002:1207 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:398, 656 [ref. 26218], Moyle 2002:436 [ref. 26449], Yonezawa & Shinomiya 2002:2 [ref. 26563], Hagiwara 2003:38 [ref. 27188], Vasil'eva 2003:S41 [ref. 28444], Nelson et al. 2004:169 [ref. 27807], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:214 [ref. 28183], Love et al. 2005:160 [ref. 37547], Hoese & Larson 2006:1616 [ref. 29097], Hoese & Larson 2008:750 [ref. 30660], Page & Burr 2011:618 [ref. 31215], Larson 2011:237 [ref. 31740], Shibukawa & Iwata 2013:47 [ref. 32580], Page et al. 2013:174 [ref. 32708], Matsui et al. 2014:6 [ref. 33344], Parin et al. 2015:474 [ref. 33547], Kells et al. 2016:304 [ref. 35888], Kuiter 2018:104 [ref. 36369], Burton & Lea 2019:90 [ref. 37205], Kim et al. 2020:169 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:102 [ref. 37637], Love et al. 2021:203 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:120 [ref. 40505], Thu & Thao 2023:642 [ref. 40499]). Current status: Valid as Acanthogobius flavimanus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Japan, Korea, China and Russia. Introduced (invasive) elsewhere, including bays in California (U.S.A.). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

flavus, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:60 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Suriname. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-1344. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:32 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Awaous flavus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Watson & Horsthemke 1995:84 [ref. 21933], Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:658 [ref. 27061], Moura et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:97 [ref. 27192], Lasso-Alcalá & Lasso 2008:121 [ref. 30588], Van Tassell 2011:142 [ref. 31732], Phillip et al. 2013:24 [ref. 32896], Carvalho-Filho in Marceniuk et al. 2021:231 [ref. 38945]). Current status: Valid as Awaous flavus (Valenciennes 1837). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: South America in coastal streams: Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

fluviatilis, Gobius Pallas [P. S.] 1814:162 [Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica v. 3; ref. 3351] Mouths of rivers entering Black Sea; Caspian Sea. No types known. •Valid as Gobius fluviatilis Pallas 1814 -- (Kner 1864:77 [ref. 39513], Herrera 1896:61 [ref. 39336], Lelek 1987:308 [ref. 22962]). •Valid as Apollonis fluviatilis (Pallas 1814) -- (Nielsen & Stepien 2006:64 [ref. 31437]). •Valid as Neogobius fluviatilis (Pallas 1814) -- (Berg 1949:1091 [ref. 20662], Miller 1973:502 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1060 [ref. 13677], Kottelat 1997:178 [ref. 22952], Coad 1995:31 [ref. 23608], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:755 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:139 [ref. 23591], Ahnelt et al. 1998:666 [ref. 23709], Coad 1998:103 [ref. 23869], Gabrielyan 2001:28 [ref. 25867], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:47 [ref. 26178], Pinchuk et al. 2003:222 [ref. 27349], Vasil'eva 2003:S49 [ref. 28444], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:229 [ref. 28183], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:182 [ref. 28369], Fricke et al. 2007:105 [ref. 29533], Kovačić & Engín 2008:74 [ref. 29624], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:578 [ref. 29996], Vasil'eva 2007:162 [ref. 30517], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:172 [ref. 31251], Neilson & Stepien 2009:96 [ref. 30487], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:187 [ref. 31737], Freyhof 2011:284 [ref. 31742], Medvedev et al. 2013:705 [ref. 35208], Stepien & Neilson 2013:2 [ref. 35325], Parin et al. 2014:493 [ref. 33547], Barbieri et al. 2015:109 [ref. 35029], Çiçek et al. 2015:152 [ref. 35151], Ćaleta et al. 2019:182 [ref. 37026], Carneiro et al. 2019:183 [ref. 37250], Özuluğ & Saç 2019:28 [ref. 36599], Çiçek et al. 2020:256 [ref. 37644], Kaya et al. 2020:340 [ref. 37582], Kuljanishvili et al. 2020:[5] [ref. 37535], Manilo 2020:68 [ref. 37795], Tutman et al. 2020:5 [ref. 38008], Yogurtçuoglu et al. 2020:[15] [ref. 37627], Kvach et al. 2021:28 [ref. 38595], Parenti 2021:73 [ref. 38603], Çiçek et al. 2023:431 [ref. 40625], Nagy et al. 2023:358 [ref. 40348], Çiçek et al. 2024:308 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Neogobius fluviatilis (Pallas 1814). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eurasia: Black Sea and Caspian Sea basins; introduced elsewhere in central and eastern Europe. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

fluviatilis, Gobius Nardo [G. D.] 1824:228, 229 [Giornale di fisica, chimica e storia naturale, medicina, ed arti. (series 2) v. 7; ref. 3144] Italy. No types known. Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Gobius fluviatilis Pallas 1814. •Synonym of Padogobius bonelli (Bonaparte 1846) -- (Kottelat 1997:179 [ref. 22952], Miller in Miller 2004:37 [ref. 27853]). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Padogobius bonelli (Bonaparte 1846). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater.

fluviatilis, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] (ex Bonelli) in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:52 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Sardinia streams, Lake Aoiglione, [Lac Majeurr] Lago Maggiore, Italy. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-2729 (2), A-1335 to A-1338 (2, 3, 1, 1), A-1368 (4); ?MZUT 848 (3). Type catalog: Tortonese 1940:144 [ref. 21559], Bauchot et al. 1991:32 [ref. 19958]. Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Gobius fluviatilis Pallas 1814. See Kottelat 1997:179 [ref. 22952] for remarks on types. •Synonym of Padogobius bonelli (Bonaparte 1846) -- (Kottelat 1997:179 [ref. 22952], Miller in Miller 2004:37 [ref. 27853]). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Padogobius bonelli (Bonaparte 1846). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater.

fontanesii, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1853:764 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 3 (no. 5); ref. 335] Boeloekomba [Bulucumba], Sulawesi, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): RMNH 4535. •Valid as Amblyeleotris fontanesii (Bleeker 1853) -- (Hoese & Steene 1978:382 [ref. 8713], Iwata et al. 1996 [ref. 22120], Hosoya et al. 1996:2 [ref. 24605], Kuiter 1997:348 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:525 [ref. 25919], Chen et al. 1998:112 [ref. 23405], Myers 1999:238 [ref. 23965] as fontanesi, Aonuma et al. 2000:117 [ref. 24522], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:635 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1231 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:404 [ref. 25191], Allen 2000:118 [ref. 25868], Larson & Murdy 2001:3594 [ref. 26293], Satapoomin & Winterbottom 2002:61 [ref. 26168], Nakabo 2002:1231 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:56 [ref. 26830], Randall 2005:513 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Larson 2006:1618 [ref. 29097], Chen et al. 2006:2565 [ref. 29024], Larson et al. 2008:146 [ref. 29532], Shibukawa 2009:261 [ref. 30449], Motomura et al. 2010:203 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:863 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:157 [ref. 33932], Prokofiev 2016:369 [ref. 34506], Prokofiev 2016:642 [ref. 35020] dated 1852, Fricke et al. 2019:269 [ref. 36673], Parenti 2021:84 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Amblyeleotris fontanesii (Bleeker 1853). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Andaman Sea and Indonesia east to Philippines and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to Ryukyu Islands, south to Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.

forsteri, Gobius Corbin [P. G.] 1958:1659 [Nature (London) v. 181 (no. 4624); ref. 12062] Southern England coast. Syntypes: whereabouts unknown. •Synonym of Thorogobius ephippiatus (Lowe 1839) -- (Miller 1973:512 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1082 [ref. 13677], Miller 1990:947 [ref. 19376]). Current status: Synonym of Thorogobius ephippiatus (Lowe 1839). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

frenatus, Gobius Günther [A.] 1861:39 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 3; ref. 1964] Australia. Syntypes: BMNH 1846.10.22.48-54 (7). •Valid as Acentrogobius frenatus (Günther 1861) -- (Larson & Murdy 2001:3594 [ref. 26293]). •Valid as Arenigobius frenatus (Günther 1861) -- (Kuiter 1993:360 [ref. 23929], Gomon et al. 1994:784 [ref. 22532], Johnson 1999:748 [ref. 25471], Hoese & Larson 2006:1624 [ref. 29097], Hoese & Larson 2008:753 [ref. 30660], Larson 2011:237 [ref. 31740], Parenti 2021:94 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Arenigobius frenatus (Günther 1861). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southeastern Indian Ocean, southwestern Pacific: Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria (Australia). Habitat: brackish, marine.

friesii, Gobius Malm [A. W.] 1874:383 [Förhandlingar vid de Skandinaviske Naturforskarnes. v. 11; ref. 17597] Lysekil, Gullmarfjord, Sweden. Holotype (unique): NRM 20172. Based on Gobius gracilis of Fries 1838. Leseueria piesii de Buen is a misspelling. •Valid as Lesueurigobius friesii (Malm 1874) -- (Miller 1973:499 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1051 [ref. 13677], Klausewitz 1989:261 [ref. 13650], Miller 1990:939 [ref. 19376], McKay & Miller 1997:1464 [ref. 24951], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:133 [ref. 26753], Ahnelt & Dorda 2004:11 [ref. 27637], Golani 2005:57 [ref. 37112], Fricke 2007:29 [ref. 30577], Fricke et al. 2007:104 [ref. 29533], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:65 [ref. 36649] as fresii, Kovačić & Patzner 2011:187 [ref. 31737], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2840 [ref. 34618], Artüz & Fricke 2019:559 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:182 [ref. 37250], Kovačić & Svensen 2019:149 [ref. 37236], Bariche & Fricke 2020:72 [ref. 37515], Kovačić 2020:77 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:25 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:92 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:76 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:41 [ref. 39014], Kovačić et al. 2022: 68 [ref. 39303], Parenti 2021:191 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Lesueurigobius friesii (Malm 1874). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Western Baltic Sea; North Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; eastern Atlantic: Sognefjorden (Norway) at 61°12'N and British Isles south to Mauritania. Habitat: marine.

fuliginosus, Gobius McCoy [F.] 1841:403 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (New Series) v. 6 (no. 39) (art. 46); ref. 17754] Connemara, Galway County, Ireland. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. •Synonym of Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758 -- (Miller 1973:483 [ref. 6888], Miller 1990:936 [ref. 19376], Kottelat 1997:176 [ref. 22952], Parenti 2021:178 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

fusculus, Gobius (Tamanka) Nichols [J. T.] 1951:5, Fig. 3 [American Museum Novitates No. 1539; ref. 12905] New Guinea. Holotype: AMNH 16887. Paratypes: AMNH 19520 (4). •Valid as Mugilogobius fusculus (Nichols 1951) -- (Allen & Coates 1990:110 [ref. 25561], Allen 1991:189 [ref. 21090], Larson 2001:127 [ref. 25522], Larson & Murdy 2001:3601 [ref. 26293], Fricke et al. 2014:169 [ref. 33932]). Current status: Valid as Mugilogobius fusculus (Nichols 1951). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Papua New Guinea. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

fuscus, Gobius Rüppell [W. P. E. S.] 1830:137 [Atlas zu der Reise im nördlichen Africa. Fische des Rothen Meeres; ref. 3843] Red Sea. Holotype (unique): SMF 1716. •Valid as Gobius fuscus Rüppell 1830 -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:356 [ref. 7348]). •Valid as Bathygobius fuscus (Rüppell 1830) -- (Goren 1978:268 [ref. 8929], Goren 1979:27 [ref. 1852], Akihito & Meguro 1980:221 [ref. 6920], Dor 1984:240 [ref. 29757], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:272 [ref. 6441], Hoese 1986:781 [ref. 5670], Maugé 1986:360 [ref. 6218], Allen & Swainston 1988:134 [ref. 25477], Allen & Swainston 1988:134 [ref. 25477], Miller & Smith 1989:315 [ref. 25535], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:610 [ref. 25598], Randall et al. 1990:395 [ref. 15987], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:929 [ref. 20764], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:233 [ref. 24016], Krishnan & Mishra 1994:296 [ref. 24014], Goren & Dor 1994:63 [ref. 25356], Rainboth 1996:198 [ref. 22772], Allen 1997:216 [ref. 23977], Larson & Williams 1997:367 [ref. 23967], Carpenter et al. 1997:213 [ref. 23922], Kim 1997:449 [ref. 24032], Myers 1999:245 [ref. 23965], Chu 1999:70 [ref. 24097], Fricke 1999:502 [ref. 24106], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:636 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1220 [ref. 25182], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:239 [ref. 25480], Shinohara et al. 2000:182 [ref. 25987], Hutchins 2001:42 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3595 [ref. 26293], Miller & Stefanni 2001:154 [ref. 26034], Sakai et al. 2001:110 [ref. 25693], Kim & Park 2002:372 [ref. 25913], Nakabo 2002:1220 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:398, 657 [ref. 26218], Allen & Adrim 2003:57 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:643 [ref. 27495] dated 1828, Lobel & Lobel 2004:75 [ref. 27576] dated 1828, Randall et al. 2004:26 [ref. 27624], Tan & Lim 2004:110 [ref. 27716], Adrim et al. 2004:126 [ref. 27715], Heemstra et al. 2004:3328 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:521 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Larson 2006:1627 [ref. 29097], Larson et al. 2008:146 [ref. 29532], Fricke et al. 2009:100 [ref. 30213], Shibukawa 2009:265 [ref. 30449], Coad 2010:267 [ref. 36620], Motomura et al. 2010:206 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:961 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:269 [ref. 32706], Larson et al. 2013:190 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:401 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:159 [ref. 33932], Motomura et al. 2015:29 [ref. 34709], Koeda et al. 2016:89 [ref. 35333], Kwun et al. 2017:143 [ref. 37287], Ali et al. 2018:336 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:327 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:148 [ref. 36273], Arndt & Fricke 2019:16 [ref. 36883], Eagderi et al. 2019:59 [ref. 37020], Kim et al. 2020:169 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:103 [ref. 37637], Parenti 2021:101 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:50 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:5 [ref. 40247], Jamandre 2023:168 [ref. 40455]). Current status: Valid as Bathygobius fuscus (Rüppell 1830). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Persian Gulf, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Wake Atoll, Marquesas Islands and Gambier Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Korea and central Japan, south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia), New Caledonia, Norfolk Island (Australia) and Tonga. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

fusiformis, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1849:30 [Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. v. 22 [6]; ref. 319] Patjitan, Purworedjo [Purworejo], Bogowonto, Java. Holotype (unique): ?RMNH 31309 [ex 4939] (poor condition). Bleeker specimens or syntypes: ?RMNH 26334 (1 of 3). •Species inquirenda in Glossogobius fusiformis (Bleeker 1849) -- (Kottelat 2013:407 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Uncertain as Glossogobius fusiformis (Bleeker 1849). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae.

garmani, Gobius Eigenmann [C. H.] & Eigenmann [R. S.] 1888:61 [Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 2) v. 1 (pt 1); ref. 1250] Dominica; Fort de France, Martinique Island, West Indies; St. Kitts. Syntypes: MCZ 26062 (3, now 2) Martinique, MCZ 26081 (3, now 1) Dominica, MCZ 27122 (4, now 3) St. Kitts. •Synonym of Evorthodus lyricus (Girard 1858) -- (D. Hoese/H.K. Larson data). Current status: Synonym of Evorthodus lyricus (Girard 1858). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

gasteveni, Gobius Miller [P. J.] 1974:468, Fig. 1; Pl. 1 [Journal of Zoology (London) v. 174 (no. 4); ref. 7521] Plymouth, English Channel, England. Holotype: In BMNH 1956.6.16.39-65. Paratypes: BMNH 1956.6.16.39-65 (20). Additional material: BMNH 1951.2.19.50 (1); MMF 13096A (1), 22975 (1); Plymouth Lab (1), plus 3 more. •Valid as Gobius gasteveni Miller 1974 -- (Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1040 [ref. 13677], Miller 1990:935 [ref. 19376], Ahnelt & Dorda 2004:8 [ref. 27637], Herler et al. 2005:1044 [ref. 28118], Bañon et al. 2010:20 [ref. 31029], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:186 [ref. 31737], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2840 [ref. 34618], Carneiro et al. 2019:180 [ref. 37250], Iglésias et al. 2019:281 [ref. 37098], Kovačić & Schembri 2019:290 [ref. 36757], Bariche & Fricke 2020:71 [ref. 37515], Kovačić 2020:77 [ref. 37932], Bañón & Maño 2021:91 [ref. 38887], Carballo et al. 2021:104 [ref. 39250], Iglésias et al. 2021:10 [ref. 38136], Iglésias et al. 2021:181 [ref. 38818], Kovačić et al. 2021:40 [ref. 39014], Parenti 2021:177 [ref. 38603], Kovačić et al. 2022: 56 [ref. 39303], Renoult et al. 2022:108 [ref. 39288], Renoult et al. 2023:28 [ref. 40491]). Current status: Valid as Gobius gasteveni Miller 1974. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; southern North Sea; northeastern Atlantic: English Channel south to Portugal, including Madeira and Canary Islands. Habitat: brackish, marine.

gastrospilos, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1853:477 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 4 (no. 3); ref. 336] Batavia, Java, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): RMNH.PISC 4676. As Gobius gastrospilus in Günther 1861:43 [ref. 1964]. •Valid as Pseudogobius gastrospilus (Bleeker 1853) -- (Huang et al. 2013:94 [ref. 33734], Chen et al. 2014:131 [ref. 33159]). •Synonym of Pseudogobius poicilosoma (Bleeker 1849) -- (Larson & Hammer 2021:61 [ref. 38276]). Current status: Synonym of Pseudogobius poicilosoma (Bleeker 1849). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

geneionema, Gobius Hilgendorf [F. M.] 1879:108 [Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1879; ref. 21467] Tokyo Bay, Japan. Holotype (unique): ZMB 10653. •Valid as Sagamia geneionema (Hilgendorf 1879) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:394 [ref. 7348], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:279 [ref. 6441], Nakabo 2000:1206 [ref. 25182], Shinohara et al. 2000:183 [ref. 25987], Shimizu 2001:39 [ref. 25799] as genetonema, Nakabo 2002:1206 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:400, 664 [ref. 26218], Shibukawa & Iwata 2013:47 [ref. 32580], Matsui et al. 2014:5 [ref. 33344], Kim et al. 2020:175 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:107 [ref. 37637]). Current status: Valid as Sagamia geneionema (Hilgendorf 1879). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Korea and Japan. Habitat: marine.

geniporus, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:32 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Italy, Mediterranean Sea. Syntypes: MNHN 0202 (1), A-1364 (1), A-1365 (1), A-1438 (1); ZMB 2041 [ex MNHN] (3) Naples. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:32 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Gobius geniporus Valenciennes 1837 -- (Miller 1973:487 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1041 [ref. 13677], Golani 1996:28 [ref. 22271], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:131 [ref. 26753], Fricke et al. 2007:103 [ref. 29533], Kovačić & Golani 2008:420 [ref. 33214], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:64 [ref. 36649], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:186 [ref. 31737], Kovačić et al. 2011:249 [ref. 32868], Artüz & Fricke 2019:559 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:180 [ref. 37250], Bariche & Fricke 2020:70 [ref. 37515], Kovačić 2020:77 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:24 [ref. 37519], Iglésias et al. 2021:14 [ref. 38136], Kovačić et al. 2021:40 [ref. 39014], Parenti 2021:177 [ref. 38603], Kovačić et al. 2022: 57 [ref. 39303], Renoult et al. 2022:116 [ref. 39288], Saad et al. 2022:60 [ref. 39432]). Current status: Valid as Gobius geniporus Valenciennes 1837. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; northeastern Atlantic: adjacent Portugal. Habitat: marine.

genivittatus, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:64 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Tahiti, Society Islands. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-1344. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:33 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Stenogobius genivittatus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Roberts 1978:64 [ref. 8886] as cf. genivittatus, Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:271 [ref. 6441], Maugé 1986:384 [ref. 6218], Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:284 [ref. 26639] with authors as Cuvier & Valenciennes, Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:604 [ref. 25598], Watson 1991:610 [ref. 19908], Rainboth 1996:208 [ref. 22772], Marquet et al. 1999:43 [ref. 23934], Keith et al. 2002:136 [ref. 31473], Keith et al. 2002:189 [ref. 26363], Keith & Marquet 2006:141 [ref. 28956] in subgenus Insularigobius and dated 1873, Zhang et al. 2016:207 [ref. 34477], Causse et al. 2023:[14] 154 [ref. 40322], Jamandre 2023:170 [ref. 40455]). Current status: Valid as Stenogobius genivittatus (Valenciennes 1837). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: South Africa and East Afica east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and French Polynesia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

gibbosus, Gobius Macleay [W.] 1881:601 [Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales v. 5 (pt 4); ref. 2869] Endeavour River, Queensland, Australia. Syntypes: AMS I.16397-001 [ex MAMU F1157] (5) Type catalog: Stanbury 1969:209 [ref. 19518]. •Synonym of Paragobiodon xanthosoma (Bleeker 1853) -- (Hoese & Larson 2006:1672 [ref. 29097]). Current status: Synonym of Paragobiodon xanthosoma (Bleeker 1853). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

gibbosus, Gobius exanthematosus var. Ninni [A. P.] 1938:160, Fig. 50 [Memoria, Comitato Talassografico Italiano No. 242; ref. 18478] Venice, Italy, Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea). Syntypes: whereabouts unknown. Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Gobius gibbosus Macleay 1881. •Synonym of Gobius cobitis Pallas 1814 -- (Miller 1973:486 [ref. 6888], Kottelat 1997:176 [ref. 22952], Parenti 2021:176 [ref. 38603]). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Gobius cobitis Pallas 1814. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

gilberti, Gobius Heller [E.] & Snodgrass [R. E.] 1903:214, Pl. 13 [Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences v. 5; ref. 2089] Narboro Island, Galápagos Islands. Holotype: CAS-SU 6354. Paratypes: CAS-SU 7061 (1). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:113 [ref. 12291]. •Valid as Lythrypnus gilberti (Heller & Snodgrass 1903) -- (Bussing 1990:108 [ref. 19516], Allen & Robertson 1994:266 [ref. 22193], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:557 [ref. 24023] [but see McCosker 1998:810 [ref. 24025]], Ahnelt & Bohacek 2004:47 [ref. 27751], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:194 [ref. 30957], Van Tassell 2011:141 [ref. 31732], Parenti 2021:196 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Lythrypnus gilberti (Heller & Snodgrass 1903). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Galápagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.

gilchristi, Gobius Boulenger [G. A.] 1898:3 [8] [Marine Investigations in South Africa No. 2; ref. 14679] Little Brak River, Mossel Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, southwestern Indian Ocean. Syntypes: BMNH 1898.9.10.2-4 (3). On p. 8 of v. 1 in 1902. •Synonym of Caffrogobius nudiceps (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Hoese 1986:784 [ref. 5670], Maugé 1986:363 [ref. 6218], Miller 1990:927 [ref. 19376]). •Valid as Caffrogobius gilchristi (Boulenger 1898) -- (Goren 1996:9 [ref. 24415], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:395 [ref. 28072], Schliewen 2011:214 [ref. 31738], Parenti 2021:110 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:58 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Valid as Caffrogobius gilchristi (Boulenger 1898). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southeastern Atlantic, southwestern Indian Ocean: Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) north to southern Mozambique. Habitat: brackish, marine.

giurinus, Gobius Rutter [C. L.] 1897:86 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 49; ref. 12329] Swatow, Shantou, coast of southeastern China. Holotype (unique): CAS-SU 4990. Type catalog: Koumans 1940:146 [ref. 2676], Böhlke 1953:113-114 [ref. 12291]. •Valid as Gobius giurinus Rutter 1897 -- (Okada 1961:665 [ref. 6363], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:359 [ref. 7348]). •Valid as Ctenogobius giurinus (Rutter 1897) -- (Wang 1984:93 [ref. 22951], Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:288 [ref. 26639], Zheng 1989:348 [ref. 21202], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:480 [ref. 23876], Deng in Ding 1994:522 [ref. 21531], Yang & Chen 1995:113 [ref. 23555], Zhu 1995:181 [ref. 25213], Cheng & Zhou 1997:378 [ref. 26385], Yang in Chen 1998:327 [ref. 23556], Tang et al. 2001:15 [ref. 25373], Sakai et al. 2001:116 [ref. 25693], Kim et al. 2004:56 [ref. 27747], Larson et al. 2008:144 [ref. 29532], Yonezawa et al. 2010:255 [ref. 30902], Motomura et al. 2010:218 [ref. 31256], Suzuki et al. 2012:697 [ref. 31734]). •Valid as Rhinogobius giurinus (Rutter 1897) -- (Hayashi in Masuda et al. 1984:269 [ref. 6441], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:585 [ref. 25598], Chen & Shao 1996:201 [ref. 22202], Takahashi 1996:3 [ref. 24363], Kim 1997:450 [ref. 24032], Takahashi et al. 1997:48 [ref. 24971], Chen & Miller 1998:219 [ref. 23576] as guirinus, Sato et al. 1998:42 [ref. 24972], Mizuno et al. 1999:12 [ref. 25311], Sakai et al. 2000:52 [ref. 24911], Nakabo 2000:1251 [ref. 25182], Matsuura et al. 2000:238 [ref. 26000], Kottelat 2001:61 [ref. 25482], Larson & Murdy 2001:3601 [ref. 26293], Kim & Park 2002:373 [ref. 25913], Nakabo 2002:1251 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:400, 664 [ref. 26218], Jang et al. 2003:120 [ref. 27681], Chen & Kottelat 2005:1407 [ref. 28141], Matsunuma et al. 2010:85 [ref. 31558], Matsui et al. 2014:8 [ref. 33344], Kottelat 2013:425 [ref. 32989], Zhang et al. 2016:203 [ref. 34477], Koeda et al. 2016:94 [ref. 35333], Xia et al. 2018:560 [ref. 35887], Zhang et al. 2019:528 [ref. 36699]). •Synonym of Rhinogobius similis Gill 1859 -- (Suzuki et al. 2015:[4] [ref. 33993], Suzuki et al. 2017:80 [ref. 35202]). Current status: Synonym of Rhinogobius similis Gill 1859. Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

giuris, Gobius Hamilton [F.] 1822:51, 366, Pl. 33 (fig. 15) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Ganges River, India. Lectotype: whereabouts unknown. Lectotype selected by Fricke 1999:512 [ref. 24106] as the specimen illustrated in Pl. 33 (fig. 15) in the original description. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 32 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Glossogobius giuris (Hamilton 1822) -- (Roberts 1978:61 [ref. 8886], Shrestha 1978:41 [ref. 15970], Goren 1979:41 [ref. 1852], Dor 1984:245 [ref. 29757], Maugé 1986:368 [ref. 6218], Hoese 1986:790 [ref. 5670], Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:275 [ref. 26639], Ataur Rahman 1989:307 [ref. 24860], Zheng 1989:345 [ref. 21202], Allen & Leggett 1990:541 [ref. 20887], Larson & Martin 1990:66 [ref. 16606], Allen & Coates 1990:00 [ref. 25561] as giurus, Coad 1991:22 [ref. 15702], Pethiyagoda 1991:245 [ref. 20075], Allen 1991:181 [ref. 21090] as giurus, Talwar & Jhingran 1991:936 [ref. 20764], Indra 1991:242 [ref. 24005], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:463 [ref. 23876], Allen et al. 1992:303 [ref. 21400], Kottelat et al. 1993:145 [ref. 23448], Rema Devi 1993:358 [ref. 24007], Rema Devi 1993:175 [ref. 24020], Indra 1993:190 [ref. 24009], Rema Devi & Ilango 1993:250 [ref. 24017], Singh & Yazdani 1993:200 [ref. 24022], Skelton 1993:365 [ref. 24071], Banister 1994:28 [ref. 22507], Goren & Dor 1994:64 [ref. 25356], Indra 1994:424 [ref. 24015], Zhu 1995:180 [ref. 25213], Kottelat & Lim 1996:247 [ref. 23210], Sen 1995:589 [ref. 23778], Coad 1995:30 [ref. 23608], Coad 1996:7 [ref. 23831], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:563 [ref. 27969], Rainboth 1996:200 [ref. 22772], Banik & Choudhury 1996:580 [ref. 24736], Reinthal & Stiassny 1997:354 [ref. 22780] as giurus, Chen et al. 1997:163 [ref. 26476], Coad 1998:103 [ref. 23869], Manimekalan 1998:442 [ref. 24989], Ng & Tan 1999:364 [ref. 24159] as giurus, Fricke 1999:511 [ref. 24106], Keith et al. 1999:112 [ref. 24548] as giurus, Rema Devi & Raghunathan 1999:158 [ref. 24759], Rema Devi et al. 1999:162 [ref. 24758], Menon 1999:294 [ref. 24904], Mishra et al. 1999:88 [ref. 25315], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:637 [ref. 25122], Freyhof et al. 2000:97 [ref. 25184], Rafique 2000:327 [ref. 25220], Raju Thomas et al. 2000:444 [ref. 25319], Karmakar 2000:35 [ref. 25662], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:187 [ref. 25703], Allen et al. 2000:123 [ref. 27467] as giurus, Kottelat 2001:60 [ref. 25482], Arunachalam et al. 2001:129 [ref. 25692], Doi et al. 2001:16 [ref. 25691], Larson & Murdy 2001:3597 [ref. 26293], Unmack 2001:1064 [ref. 25797], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Skelton 2001:365 [ref. 27406], Allen et al. 2002:268 [ref. 25930] as giurus, Raju Thomas et al. 2002:51 [ref. 26359], Rafique et al. 2003:98 [ref. 27173], Mirza 2003:24 [ref. 27265], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S119 [ref. 27377] as giurus, Khan 2003:10 [ref. 27710], Yadav 2003:24 [ref. 27711], Seegers et al. 2003:46 [ref. 28087], Ataur Rahman 2003:333 [ref. 31338], Morgan et al. 2004:150 [ref. 27718], Tan & Lim 2004:111 [ref. 27716], Hoese & Larson 2006:1653 [ref. 29097], Shrestha 2008:224 [ref. 29923], Larson et al. 2008:149 [ref. 29532], Allen et al. 2008:168 [ref. 30265], Fricke et al. 2009:101 [ref. 30213], Esmaeili et al. 2010:377 [ref. 33391], Morgan et al. 2011:18 [ref. 31262], Schliewen 2011:217 [ref. 31738], Marshall 2011:265 [ref. 31755], Hoese & Allen 2012:269 [ref. 31974], Ahmed et al. 2013:287 [ref. 32872], Larson et al. 2013:198 [32988], Kottelat 2013:407 [ref. 32989], Morgan et al. 2014:24 [ref. 36567], Hoese et al. 2015:18 [ref. 33684], Hoese & Allen 2015:214 [ref. 33880], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:898 [ref. 34062], Esmaeili et al. 2015:123 [ref. 35030], Prokofiev 2016:646 [ref. 35020], Pusey et al. 2017:73 [ref. 35250], Esmaeili et al. 2017:82 [ref. 35254], Arunkumar & Manimekalan 2018:1739 [ref. 36172], Esmaeili et al. 2018:63 [ref. 36089], Fricke et al. 2018:332 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:154 [ref. 36273], Suresh et al. 2018:284 [ref. 36495], Arndt & Fricke 2019:16 [ref. 36883], Esmaeili et al. 2019:[6] [ref. 37285], Ng et al. 2019:533 [ref. 36606], Zajonz et al. 2019:96 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 14 [ref. 38321], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:231 [ref. 37983], Psomadakis et al. 2020:548 [ref. 37272], Hammer et al. 2021:[5] 91 [ref. 39008], Hoese & Hammer 2021:91 [ref. 38350], Parenti 2021:162 [ref. 38603], Taki et al. 2021:431 [ref. 39830], Al Jufaili et al. 2022:546 [ref. 39237], Kosygin et al. 2022:672 [ref. 40736], Larson 2022:93 [ref. 39971], Shangningam & Kosygin 2022:61 [ref. 39587], Tudu et al. 2022:43 [ref. 40484], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:14 [ref. 40247], Jamandre 2023:168 [ref. 40455], Thu & Thao 2023:642 [ref. 40499], Zarei et al. 2023:29 [ref. 40477] as cf. giuris, Çiçek et al. 2024:304 [ref. 40789], Endruweit 2024:79 [ref. 41040]). Current status: Valid as Glossogobius giuris (Hamilton 1822). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southern Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Society Islands (French Polynesia), north to Philippines, south to Pilbara (Western Australia), Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

gobiodon, Gobius Day [F.] 1870:516 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1869 (pt 3) (art. 7) (for 11 Nov. 1869); ref. 18819] Andaman Islands or adjacent islands. Syntypes: ZSI 216 (7, lost). Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:161 [ref. 23762]. Reasons for loss of ZSI type specimens during WWII see Chopra 1947:349-350 [ref. 33077]. •Synonym of Paragobiodon echinocephalus (Rüppell 1830) -- (D. Hoese/H.K. Larson data). Current status: Synonym of Paragobiodon echinocephalus (Rüppell 1830). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

gobioides, Gobius Ogilby [J. D.] 1886:35 [Catalogue of the fishes of New South Wales, with their principal synonyms; ref. 13268] Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia. Syntypes: AMS I.16391-001 [ex MAMU F993] (10). Replacement name for Gobius cristatus Macleay 1881, preoccupied by Euctenogobius cristatus Day 1873. •Valid as Cristatogobius gobioides (Ogilby 1886) -- (Kuiter 1993:359 [ref. 23929], Johnson 1999:748 [ref. 25471]). •Valid as Cryptocentroides gobioides (Ogilby 1886) -- (Hoese & Larson 2006:1636 [ref. 29097], Parenti 2021:124 [ref. 38603]). Replacement Name. Current status: Valid as Cryptocentroides gobioides (Ogilby 1886). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southwestern Pacific: Queensland south to New South Wales (Australia). Habitat: brackish, marine.

gobius, Cyclopterus Nilsson [S.] 1832:62 [Prodromus ichthyologiae Scandinavicae; ref. 3204] Landskrona, Sweden. No types known. Originally as Cyclopterus Gobius Cuv., but that combination is unknown. •Synonym of Liparis montagui (Donovan 1804) -- (Chernova et al. 2004:27 [ref. 27592]). Current status: Synonym of Liparis montagui (Donovan 1804). Liparidae. Habitat: marine.

gobius, Liparis Schagerström [N. O.] 1838:248 [Kongliga Vetenskaps-Academiens Handlingar, Stockholm Series 3, v. 26; ref. 18677] Landskrona, Sweden. No types known. •Incertae sedis in Liparidae -- (Chernova et al. 2004:62 [ref. 27592]). Liparidae. Habitat: marine.

goebelii, Gobius Kessler [K. F.] 1874:249 [59] [Trudy St.-Peterburgskogo Obscestva Estestvoispytatelej = Travaux de la Société des Naturalistes de St. Pétersbourg. v. 5; ref. 18397] Baku, Azerbaijan. Syntypes: (3) NMW 33910 (1), ZIN 2229-30 (1, 1). •Synonym of Neogobius ratan (Nordmann 1840), but a valid subspecies goebelii -- (Berg 1949:1087 [ref. 20662], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1064 [ref. 13677] as gobebeli, Coad 1995:31 [ref. 23608], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:756 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:142 [ref. 23591], Pinchuk et al. 2003:357 [ref. 27348], Vasil'eva et al. 2015:196 [ref. 33862]). •Synonym of Ponticola ratan (Nordmann 1840) -- (Neilson & Stepien 2009:97 [ref. 30487]). •Valid as Ponticola goebelii (Kessler 1874) -- (Esmaeili et al. 2010:378 [ref. 33391], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:899 [ref. 34062], Esmaeili et al. 2017:84 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:66 [ref. 36089], Parenti 2021:74 [ref. 38603], Zarei et al. 2022:178 [ref. 39576], Çiçek et al. 2024:311 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Ponticola goebelii (Kessler 1874). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eurasia: Caspian Sea basin. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

goldmanni, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1852:167 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 3 (no. 2); ref. 16835] Kupang, Timor Island, southern Malay Archipelago [Timor Sea, eastern Indian Ocean]. Holotype (unique): RMNH 4664. •Valid as Istigobius goldmanni (Bleeker 1852) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:252 [ref. 6441], Murdy & Hoese 1985:23 [ref. 5237], Randall et al. 1997:534 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:256 [ref. 23965], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:638 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1214 [ref. 25182], Allen 2000:120 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3598 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1213 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:59 [ref. 26830], Randall et al. 2004:28 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:539 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Larson 2006:1660 [ref. 29097], Larson et al. 2008:149 [ref. 29532], Shibukawa 2009:278 [ref. 30449], Allen & Erdmann 2012:980 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:168 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2019:285 [ref. 36673], Parenti 2021:187 [ref. 38603], Wada in Motomura et al. 2021:72 [ref. 38121]). Current status: Valid as Istigobius goldmanni (Bleeker 1852). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: India east to Palau and Fiji, north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.

gorgione, Gobius Rafinesque [C. S.] 1810:35 [Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della Sicilia; ref. 3594] Sicily, Italy, Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Also appeared in Rafinesque 1810:30 [ref. 3595]. •Questionably a synonym of Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758 -- (Miller 1973:483 [ref. 6888], Miller 1990:935 [ref. 19376]). •Synonym of Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758 -- (Parenti 2019:102 [ref. 37117], Parenti 2021:178 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

gracilis, Gobius Jenyns [L.] 1835:25 [A systematic catalogue of British vertebrate animals.; ref. 21620] Essex, England. No types known. Also appeared in Jenyns 1835:387 [ref. 18335]. Also as Jenyns in Parnell 1831-37:85, Pl. 29 [ref. 18519]. •Synonym of Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas 1770) -- (Miller 1973:506 [ref. 6888], Kottelat 1997:180 [ref. 22952], Vasil'eva 1998:144 [ref. 23591], Parin et al. 2014:496 [ref. 33547]). Current status: Synonym of Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas 1770). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

gracilis, Gobius Girard [C. F.] 1854:134 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 7; ref. 1817] San Francisco, California, U.S.A. Syntypes: USNM 361 (1), 362 (1). Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Gobius gracilis Jenyns 1835, replaced by Gobius lepidus Girard 1858. •Synonym of Lepidogobius lepidus (Girard 1858) -- (D. Hoese/H.K. Larson data). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Lepidogobius lepidus (Girard 1858). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: marine.

gracilis, Gobius Couch [J.] 1863:172, Pl. 102 (fig. 3) [The history of the fishes of the British islands v. 2; ref. 18053] Weston-super-Mare, Somersetshire, England. No types known. Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Gobius gracilis Jenyns 1835. •Synonym of Pomatoschistus microps (Krøyer 1838) -- (Miller 1990:944 [ref. 19376], Miller in Miller 2004:293 [ref. 27853]). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Pomatoschistus microps (Krøyer 1838). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

graeffii, Gobius Günther [A.] 1877:179 [Journal des Museum Godeffroy v. 4 (no. 13); ref. 14243] Fresh waters of Namusi, Viti Levu. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1869.11.20.30. •Synonym of Bathygobius padangensis (Bleeker 1851) -- (Akihito & Meguro 1980:223 [ref. 6920]). •Synonym of Bathygobius coalitus (Bennett 1832) -- (Kottelat 2013:401 [ref. 32989], Parenti 2021:99 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Bathygobius coalitus (Bennett 1832). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

grammepomus, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1849:34 [Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. v. 22 [6]; ref. 319] Purworedjo [Purworejo], Bongowoto River, Java, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): RMNH 4939. •Synonym of Chonophorus melanocephalus (Bleeker 1849) -- (Maugé 1986:365 [ref. 6218]). •Synonym of Awaous ocellaris (Broussonet 1782) -- (Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:278 [ref. 26639]). •Valid as Awaous grammepomus (Bleeker 1849) -- (Pethiyagoda 1991:243 [ref. 20075], Ataur Rahman 1989:305 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:927 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:142 [ref. 23448], Indra 1993:190 [ref. 24009], Rainboth 1996:202 [ref. 22772], Ataur Rahman 2003:331 [ref. 31338], Ahmed et al. 2013:287 [ref. 32872], Kottelat 2013:400 [ref. 32989], Miesen et al. 2016:93 [ref. 34492], Al-Jufaili et al. 2021:[3] [ref. 38743], Jamandre 2023:167 [ref. 40455], Seth et al. 2023:13 [ref. 40589]). Current status: Valid as Awaous grammepomus (Bleeker 1849). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: India, Sri Lanka, east to Philippines and New Guinea. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

grandidierii, Gobius Playfair [R. L.] 1868:10 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868 (pt 1); ref. 14077] Mouroundava River, Madagascar. Syntypes: (2) apparently lost. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:56 [ref. 19958]. •Synonym of Glossogobius laticeps (De Vis 1884) -- (Parenti 2021:163 [ref. 38603] with question). •Synonym of Glossogobius giuris (Hamilton 1822) -- (Maugé 1986:368 [ref. 6218], Kottelat 2013:408 [ref. 32989], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:232 [ref. 37983], Larson 2022:93 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Glossogobius giuris (Hamilton 1822). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

grandinosus, Gobius Eydoux [J. F. T.] & Souleyet [F. A.] 1850:177, Pl. 5 (fig. 4) [Voyage autour du monde; ref. 4501] Macao, China. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-1366. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:33 [ref. 19958]. Species belongs to the Acentrogobius caninus complex. •Synonym of Acentrogobius caninus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Kottelat 2013:397 [ref. 32989], Parenti 2021:78 [ref. 38603]) Current status: Synonym of Acentrogobius caninus (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

griseus, Gobius Day [F.] 1876:285, Pl. 63 (fig. 3) [The fishes of India Part 2; ref. 1081] Backwaters, Madras, India. Syntypes and/or Day specimens: AMS B.8300 (1, syntype); BMNH 1889.2.1.4267-73 (half skins); MZUF 4705 (1); NMW 33905 (1); RMNH 16911 (1); ZSI 188 (3), 2827 (1, destroyed). Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:161 [ref. 23762], Ferraris et al. 2000:297 [ref. 25110]. •Valid as Acentrogobius griseus (Day 1876) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:925 [ref. 20764], Mishra et al. 1999:88 [ref. 25315], Parenti 2021:79 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Acentrogobius griseus (Day 1876). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: South Asia: India. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

gronovii, Gobius Gmelin [J. F.] 1789:1205 [Caroli a Linné ... Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae v. 1 (pt 3); ref. 18139] Habitat in oceano americano zona torridae [Western Atlantic; Brazil, southwestern Atlantic]. No types known. •Valid as Nomeus gronovii (Gmelin 1789) -- (Haedrich 1967:83 [ref. 5357], Haedrich 1973:562 [ref. 7216], Nakabo in Masuda et al. 1984:235 [ref. 6441], Haedrich in Whitehead et al. 1986:1185 [ref. 13677], Haedrich 1986:848 [ref. 5659], Robins & Ray 1986:270 [ref. 23100], Suda et al. 1986:319 [ref. 22518], Scott & Scott 1988:474 [ref. 25518], Paulin et al. 1989:236 [ref. 24556], McAllister 1990:182 [ref. 14674], Haedrich 1990:1016 [ref. 19509], Boschung 1992:171 [ref. 23239], Kuiter 1993:380 [ref. 23929], Gomon et al. 1994:841 [ref. 22532], Allen & Robertson 1994:284 [ref. 22193], Haedrich in Fischer et al. 1995:1325 [ref. 22829], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:604 [ref. 24023], Arruda 1997:112 [ref. 24952], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:292 [ref. 24555], Fricke 1999:567 [ref. 24106], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:340 [ref. 25013], Afonso et al. 1999:86 [ref. 25466], Johnson 1999:752 [ref. 25471], Last in Randall & Lim 2000:644 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:965 [ref. 25182], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:169 [ref. 27754], Hutchins 2001:46 [ref. 25847], Last 2001:3778 [ref. 26309], Shinohara et al. 2001:333 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:965 [ref. 26193], Collette et al. 2003:126 [ref. 26784], Haedrich 2003:1872 [ref. 27117], Figueiredo et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:104 [ref. 27192], Nelson et al. 2004:177 [ref. 27807], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:430 [ref. 28072], Parin & Piotrovsky 2004:S49 [ref. 28443], Love et al. 2005:170 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:512 [ref. 28379], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:806 [ref. 28815], Vaske et al. 2005:78 [ref. 36155], Hoese & Bray 2006:1795 [ref. 29000], Wirtz et al. 2007:41 [ref. 30263], Randall 2007:453 [ref. 30952], Gomon & Last 2008:803 [ref. 30651], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:195 [ref. 30957] dated 1788, Page et al. 2013:183 [ref. 32708], Shinohara et al. 2014:273 [ref. 33330], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:85 [ref. 33341], Haedrich in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2923 [ref. 34618], Fourriére et al. 2016:460 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:611 [ref. 34923], Fricke et al. 2018:365 [ref. 35805], Cabebe & Motomura 2019:120 [ref. 37815], Carneiro et al. 2019:173 [ref. 37250], Reiner 2019:284 [ref. 38139], Kim et al. 2020:185 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:579 [ref. 37272], Sutton et al. 2020:262 [ref. 37832], Love et al. 2021:214 [ref. 39279], Anderson 2022:304 [ref. 40173], Fermon et al. 2022:210 [ref. 39448] possible, Carvalho-Filho 2023:263 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:115 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Nomeus gronovii (Gmelin 1789). Nomeidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas. Habitat: marine.

grossholzii, Gobius Steindachner [F.] 1894:137 [Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 31 (no. 14) (for 25 May 1894); ref. 20493] Lake Kuçuk-Çekilometersece [Küjük Cekilometersedze], Turkey, Sea of Marmara (Mediterranean Sea). Syntypes: (several) NMW 34032-34 (3), 34035-36 (2), 34037-42 (6), 34043-44 (2), 34045-50 (6), 34051-60 (13), 34061-62 (2), 49912 (2). Species illustrated and described in more detail in Steindachner 1894:447, Pl. 2 (fig. 1) [ref. 14564]. •Synonym of Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas 1814) -- (Berg 1949:1083 [ref. 20662], Miller 1973:504 [ref. 6888], Kottelat 1997:179 [ref. 22952], Pinchuk et al. 2003:293 [ref. 27349], Neilson & Stepien 2009:96 [ref. 30487], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:237 [ref. 37983], Parenti 2021:74 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas 1814). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. 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.

guentheri, Gobius (Awaous) Regan [C. T.] 1903:629 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7) v. 12 (no. 72) (art. 64); ref. 13401] Western Ecuador. Syntypes: BMNH 1860.6.16.133-134 (2). •Synonym of Awaous banana (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Watson 1996:3 [ref. 22211], Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:658 [ref. 27061], Lasso-Alcalá & Lasso 2008:126 [ref. 30588]). Current status: Synonym of Awaous banana (Valenciennes 1837). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

guilleti, Gobius (Lebetus) scorpioides var. Le Danois [E.] 1913:91, 106, Figs. 159-161 [Annales de l'Institut Océanographique Monaco v. 5 (no. 5); ref. 17493] Morlaix Bay, on English Channel, northwestern France, depth 5-10 meters. No types known. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:59 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Lebetus guilleti (Le Danois 1913) -- (Miller 1973:498 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1049 [ref. 13677], Miller 1990:938 [ref. 19376], McKay & Miller 1997:1464 [ref. 24951], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:65 [ref. 36649], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:187 [ref. 31737], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2840 [ref. 34618], Artüz & Fricke 2019:559 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:182 [ref. 37250], Kovačić & Schembri 2019:291 [ref. 36757], Schliewen et al. 2019:236 [ref. 37165], Kovačić 2020:77 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:25 [ref. 37519], Carballo et al. 2021:116 [ref. 39250], Iglésias et al. 2021:181 [ref. 38818], Kovačić et al. 2021:41 [ref. 39014], Kovačić et al. 2022: 67 [ref. 39303]). Current status: Valid as Lebetus guilleti (Le Danois 1913). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: North Sea; western Baltic Sea; western Mediterranean Sea: Baleares and Adriatic Sea; eastern Atlantic: Norway and British Isles south to Portugal, including Madeira (Portugal) and Canary Islands (Spain). Habitat: marine.

guineensis, Gobius aeneofuscus var. Peters [W. (C. H.)] 1876:248 [Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1876 (for 27 Apr. 1876); ref. 10019] Cameroon River, West Africa. Holotype (unique): ZMB 9334. •Synonym of Chonophorus lateristriga (Duméril 1861) -- (Maugé 1986:364 [ref. 6218], Lévêque et al. 1989:123 [ref. 26480] dated 1877, Miller 1990:928 [ref. 19376], Paugy et al. 1990:343 [ref. 26477] dated 1877, Lévèque et al. 1991:146 [ref. 31367], Harrison & Miller in Lévêque et al. 1992:809 [ref. 21590]). •Synonym of Awaous lateristriga (Duméril 1861) -- (Watson 1996:10 [ref. 22211]). Current status: Synonym of Awaous lateristriga (Duméril 1861). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

guitelli, Gobius minutus Le Danois [E.] 1913:88, Figs. 147-148 [Annales de l'Institut Océanographique Monaco v. 5 (no. 5); ref. 17493] Brackish water, Penzé estuary, western English Channel, France. No types known. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:57 [ref. 19958]. •Synonym of Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas 1770) -- (Miller 1973:506 [ref. 6888], Kottelat 1997:181 [ref. 22952]). Current status: Synonym of Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas 1770). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

gulosus, Gobius Girard [C. F.] 1858:169 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 10; ref. 1813] Indianola, Texas, U.S.A. Syntypes: USNM 797 (3). See also Girard 1859:26 [ref. 13405]. •Valid as Microgobius gulosus (Girard 1858) -- (Lee et al. 1980:797 [ref. 22416], Birdsong 1981:283 [ref. 5425], Robins & Ray 1986:252 [ref. 23100], Boschung 1992:165 [ref. 23239], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:450 [ref. 24550], Schwartz 1999:288 [ref. 25307], Rüber et al. 2003:1598 [ref. 26969], Murdy & Hoese 2003:1794 [ref. 27111], Ross & Rhode 2004:314 [ref. 27789], Nelson et al. 2004:172 [ref. 27807], Boschung & Mayden 2004:632 [ref. 27995], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:719 [ref. 28815], Van Tassell 2011:168 [ref. 31732], Van Tassell et al. 2012:88 [ref. 31948], Tornabene et al. 2012:41 [ref. 32138], Page et al. 2013:178 [ref. 32708], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:345 [ref. 36407], Robins et al. 2018:416 [ref. 35886], Page et al. 2023:123 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Microgobius gulosus (Girard 1858). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

gulosus, Gobius Smith [J. L. B.] 1936:49, Fig. 2 [Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa v. 24 (pt 1); ref. 13749] Bushman's River, Alicedale, Cape Province, South Africa. Holotype (unique): SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 305 [ex AMG]. Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Gobius gulosus Girard 1858, replaced by Gobius callidus Smith 1937. •Mentioned in Hoese 1986:790 [ref. 5670]. •Synonym of Glossogobius callidus (Smith 1937) -- (Maugé 1986:368 [ref. 6218], Parenti 2021:161 [ref. 38603]). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Glossogobius callidus (Smith 1937). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater.

guttatus, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:24 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Sicily, Italy, Mediterranean Sea. Syntypes: MNHN A-1144 (1), A-1147 (1), A-1148 (1). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:33 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Gobius guttatus Valenciennes 1837 -- (Herrera 1896:61 [ref. 39336]). •Synonym of Gobius cobitis Pallas 1814 -- (Miller 1973:485 [ref. 6888], Miller 1990:934 [ref. 19376], Kottelat 1997:176 [ref. 22952], Parenti 2021:176 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Gobius cobitis Pallas 1814. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

gutum, Gobius Hamilton [F.] 1822:50, 366 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Lower parts of the Padma River, Ganges River system, Bangladesh. No types known. Information on type locality see Britz 2019:38 [ref. 37532]. Hamilton's original, unpublished illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 31 [ref. 37532]. •Synonym of Glossogobius giuris (Hamilton 1822) -- (Rema Devi 1993:175 [ref. 24020], Menon 1999:294 [ref. 24904], Kottelat 2013:407 [ref. 32989], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:232 [ref. 37983]). •Valid as Awaous gutum (Hamilton 1822) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:928 [ref. 20764], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:187 [ref. 25703], Hoese & Hammer 2021:110 [ref. 38350], Seth et al. 2023:13 [ref. 40589]). Current status: Valid as Awaous gutum (Hamilton 1822). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Northeastern Indian Ocean: Ganges River basin, India and Bangladesh. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

gymnauchen, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1860:84, Pl. 1 (fig. 2) [Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo-Neêrlandicae v. 8 (art. 1); ref. 374] Tokyo, Japan. Holotype (unique): RMNH 4465. •Valid as Gobius gymnauchen Bleeker 1860 -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:359 [ref. 7348]). •Valid as Ctenogobius gymnauchen (Bleeker 1860) -- (Cheng & Zhou 1997:381 [ref. 26385]). •Valid as Favonigobius gymnauchen (Bleeker 1860) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:250 [ref. 6441], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:569 [ref. 25598], Kim 1997:464 [ref. 24032], Sato et al. 1998:41 [ref. 24972], Myers 1999:255 [ref. 23965], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:637 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1239 [ref. 25182], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:239 [ref. 25480], Sakai et al. 2001:111 [ref. 25693], Shimizu 2001:41 [ref. 25799], Kim & Park 2002:388 [ref. 25913], Nakabo 2002:1239 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:399, 660 [ref. 26218], Hagiwara 2003:40 [ref. 27188], Matsui et al. 2014:9 [ref. 33344], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:259 [ref. 36460], Kim et al. 2020:169 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:104 [ref. 37637], Parenti 2021:154 [ref. 38603], Furuhashi et al. 2023:27 [ref. 40140], Thu & Thao 2023:642 [ref. 40499], Zarei et al. 2023:2 [ref. 40314], Endruweit 2024:78 [ref. 41040]). Current status: Valid as Favonigobius gymnauchen (Bleeker 1860). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: northern Vietnam and southern China to Korea and Japan. Records from Iran and India based on misidentifications (H. K. Larson, pers. comm., June 2023). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

gymnauchen, Gobius Weber [M.] 1897 [Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere (Jena) v. 10; ref. 14640] Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Gobius gymnauchen Bleeker 1860. 1°Homonym. Gobiidae.

gymnocephalus, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1853:473 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 4 (no. 3); ref. 336] East Indies (no specific locality). Syntypes: (2) RMNH 4536 (1 or 2 of 7, including the smallest). Kottelat (2013) cites a freshwater record. •Valid as Cryptocentrus gymnocephalus (Bleeker 1853) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:933 [ref. 20764]). •Valid as Amblyeleotris gymnocephala (Bleeker 1853) -- (Hoese & Steene 1978:382 [ref. 8713], Randall et al. 1997:525 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:238 [ref. 23965], Mohlmann & Munday 1999:62 [ref. 24273], Aonuma et al. 2000:117 [ref. 24522], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:635 [ref. 25122], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:240 [ref. 25480], Allen 2000:118 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:42 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3594 [ref. 26293], Allen & Adrim 2003:56 [ref. 26830], Randall et al. 2005:127 [ref. 28745], Chen et al. 2006:2564 [ref. 29024], Larson et al. 2008:146 [ref. 29532], Allen & Erdmann 2012:863 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:189 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:157 [ref. 33932], Prokofiev 2016:369 [ref. 34506], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:255 [ref. 36460], Fricke et al. 2019:269 [ref. 36673], Parenti 2021:84 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Amblyeleotris gymnocephala (Bleeker 1853). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Indonesia east to Marshall Islands and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to northern Vietnam, south to northern Australia. Habitat: brackish, marine.

gymnopomus, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1853:270 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 4 (no. 2); ref. 12580] Priaman, Sumatra, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): ?RMNH 4552 (62.8 mm male). •Valid as Stenogobius gymnopomus (Bleeker 1853) -- (Maugé 1986:385 [ref. 6218], Watson 1991:582 [ref. 19908], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:945 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:153 [ref. 23448], Rainboth 1996:209 [ref. 22772], Larson & Murdy 2001:3602 [ref. 26293], Kottelat 2013:429 [ref. 32989], Wilkinson & Tan 2018:602 [ref. 36226]). Current status: Valid as Stenogobius gymnopomus (Bleeker 1853). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific [amphidromous]. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

gymnotrachelus, Gobius Kessler [K. F.] 1857:464 [Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou v. 30 (pt 2); ref. 18390] Dniester River and tributaries, especially Slutsch River, Ukraine. Syntypes: ZIN 2105 (1, not present in 1996). •Valid as Gobius gymnotrachelus Kessler 1857 -- (Kner 1864:78 [ref. 39513]). •Valid as Mesogobius gymnotrachelus (Kessler 1857) -- (Berg 1949:1098 [ref. 20662]). •Valid as Neogobius gymnotrachelus (Kessler 1857) -- (Miller 1973:502 [ref. 6888], Pinchuk 1977:593 [ref. 8999], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1061 [ref. 13677], Coad 1995:31 [ref. 23608], Kottelat 1997:178 [ref. 22952], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:755 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:139 [ref. 23591], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:47 [ref. 26178], Pinchuk et al. 2003:265 [ref. 27349], Vasil'eva 2003:S49 [ref. 28444], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:230 [ref. 28183], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:183 [ref. 28369], Fricke et al. 2007:105 [ref. 29533], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:580 [ref. 29996], Vasil'eva 2007:163 [ref. 30517], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:172 [ref. 31251], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:187 [ref. 31737]). •Valid as Ponticola gymnotrachelus (Kessler 1857) -- (Medvedev et al. 2013:705 [ref. 35208], Parin et al. 2014:498 [ref. 33547], Vasil'eva et al. 2016:9 [ref. 34347]). •Valid as Babka gymnotrachelus (Kessler 1857) -- (Neilson & Stepien 2009:97 [ref. 30487], Esmaeili et al. 2010:376 [ref. 33391], Freyhof 2011:282 [ref. 31742], Haertl et al. 2012:157 [ref. 37944], Stepien & Neilson 2013:2 [ref. 35325], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:896 [ref. 34062], Çiçek et al. 2015:152 [ref. 35151], Esmaeili et al. 2017:78 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:59 [ref. 36089], Ćaleta et al. 2019:181 [ref. 37026], Özuluğ & Saç 2019:27 [ref. 36599], Zogaris et al. 2019:1 [ref. 36597], Çiçek et al. 2020:256 [ref. 37644], Kuljanishvili et al. 2020:[5] [ref. 37535], Manilo 2020:69 [ref. 37795], Tutman et al. 2020:4 [ref. 38008], Kvach et al. 2021:44 [ref. 38595], Parenti 2021:68 [ref. 38603], Zarei et al. 2022:163 [ref. 39576], Çiçek et al. 2023:428 [ref. 40625], Nagy et al. 2023:358 [ref. 40348], Çiçek et al. 2024:299 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Babka gymnotrachelus (Kessler 1857). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eurasia: Black Sea, Sea of Azov, and Caspian Sea basins; invasive in Germany, Bosnia and Hercegovina, and Greece; introduced elsewhere in eastern Europe. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

haackei, Gobius Steindachner [F.] 1883:194 [Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse v. 20 (no. 22); ref. 20488] South Australia. Holotype (unique): NMW (apparently lost). Species later described in more detail in Steindachner 1884:1074 [p. 10 of separate] [ref. 4234]. •Incertae sedis in Gobiidae -- (Hoese & Larson 2006:1697 [ref. 29097]). Gobiidae: Gobiinae.

hadropterus, Ctenogobius Jordan [D. S.] & Snyder [J. O.] 1901:60, Fig. 7 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 24 (no. 1244); ref. 2509] Nagasaki, Japan. Holotype: CAS-SU 6449. Paratypes: CAS-SU 6551 (6), 6663 (19). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:141 [ref. 2676] with SU 6663 as cotypes, Böhlke 1953:110 [ref. 12291]. •Synonym of Gobius giurinus Rutter 1897 -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:359 [ref. 7348]). •Synonym of Rhinogobius giurinus (Rutter 1897) -- (Okada 1961:665 [ref. 6363] as handropterus, Chen & Shao 1996:201 [ref. 22202], Kim 1997:583 [ref. 24032], Kottelat 2001:61 [ref. 25482], Kottelat 2013:425 [ref. 32989]). •Synonym of Rhinogobius similis Gill 1859 -- (Mitrofanov et al. 1992:269 [ref. 37756], Suzuki et al. 2015:[4] [ref. 33993], Suzuki et al. 2017:80 [ref. 35202]). Current status: Synonym of Rhinogobius similis Gill 1859. Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

harmandi, Gobius Sauvage [H.-E.] 1880:49 [10] [Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série) v. 4; ref. 3887] Poulo Condor and Cochinchine, Vietnam. Syntypes: BMNH 1879.6.3.1 [ex MNHN] (1), 1883.7.4.60-61 [ex MNHN] (2); MNHN A-1339 (5), 3037 (5); USNM 28536 [ex MNHN] (2). On p. 10 of separate. •Synonym of Amblygobius stethophthalmus (Bleeker 1851) -- (Parenti 2021:91 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Amblygobius stethophthalmus (Bleeker 1851). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

hasseltii, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1851:250 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 1 (no. 3); ref. 16890] Tjisekat, Bantam Province [western Java Province], Java, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. Type information: Roberts 1993:43 [ref. 21799]. •In Sicyopterus, status uncertain -- (Roberts 1993:43 [ref. 21799]). •Synonym of Sicyopterus cynocephelus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Kottelat 2013:427 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Sicyopterus cynocephalus (Valenciennes 1837). Oxudercidae: Sicydiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

hasta, Gobius Temminck [C. J.] & Schlegel [H.] 1845:144, Pl. 75 (fig. 1) [Fauna Japonica Parts 7-9; ref. 4373] Nagasaki, Japan. Lectotype: RMNH 1909. Paralectotypes: ZMB 2095 (1). Type information: Boeseman 1947:124 [ref. 12876]. Type catalog: Paepke 2001:330 [ref. 25566]. Lectotype established by Boeseman 1947 by use of "the type" after discovery of a second type by Paepke 2001:330 [ref. 25566]. •Synonym of Synechogobius ommaturus Richardson 1845 (Oct.) -- (Wu in Pan et al. 1991:488 [ref. 23876]). •Valid as Synechogobius hasta (Temminck & Schlegel 1845) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:390 [ref. 7348], Zhu 1995:183 [ref. 25213], Cheng & Zhou 1997:385 [ref. 26385] dated 1850, Kim 1997:444 [ref. 24032], Kim & Park 2002:368 [ref. 25913], Choi et al. 2003:400, 665 [ref. 26218], Kottelat 2013:431 [ref. 32989]). •Valid as Acanthogobius hasta (Temminck & Schlegel 1845) -- (Okada 1961:673 [ref. 6363], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:278 [ref. 6441], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:635 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1207 [ref. 25182], Wang et al. 2001:268 [ref. 26566], Nakabo 2002:1207 [ref. 26193], Shibukawa & Iwata 2013:46 [ref. 32580], Parenti 2019:120 [ref. 37117], Kim et al. 2020:169 [ref. 39118]). Nomen Protectum. Current status: Valid as Acanthogobius hasta (Temminck & Schlegel 1845). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: China to Korea and Japan. Habitat: marine.

hemigymnopomus, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1856:50 [Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo-Neêrlandicae v. 1 (6); ref. 352] Makassar, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Syntypes: RMNH 6167 (2). •Synonym of Acentrogobius janthinopterus (Bleeker 1853) -- (Kottelat 2013:397 [ref. 32989], Miesen et al. 2016:92 [ref. 34492], Parenti 2021:79 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Acentrogobius janthinopterus (Bleeker 1853). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

hemigymnus, Gobius Eigenmann [C. H.] & Eigenmann [R. S.] 1888:66 [Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 2) v. 1 (pt 1); ref. 1250] West Indies. Holotype (unique): MCZ 27124. •Valid as Gobiosoma hemigymnum (Eigenmann & Eigenmann 1888) -- (Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:433 [ref. 24550], Camargo & Isaac 2001:142 [ref. 27639], Murdy & Hoese 2003:1794 [ref. 27111], Moura et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:99 [ref. 27192], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:709 [ref. 28815], Van Tassell 2011:154 [ref. 31732], Tornabene & Van Tassell 2014:23 [ref. 33167], Van Tassell et al. 2015:456 [ref. 33949], Carvalho-Filho 2023:239 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Gobiosoma hemigymnum (Eigenmann & Eigenmann 1888). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) south to Argentina. Habitat: marine.

heptacanthus, Gobius Hilgendorf [F. M.] 1879:110 [Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1879; ref. 21467] Tokyo, Japan. Syntypes: ZMB 10656 (1). •Valid as Chaenogobius heptacanthus (Hilgendorf 1879) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:276 [ref. 6441], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:13 [ref. 24670], Shimizu 2001:39 [ref. 25799], Choi et al. 2003:398, 658 [ref. 26218]). •Valid as Gymnogobius heptacanthus (Hilgendorf 1879) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:382 [ref. 7348], Nakabo 2000:1198 [ref. 25182], Nakabo 2002:1198 [ref. 26193], Stevenson 2002:290 [ref. 26489], Vasil'eva 2003:S46 [ref. 28444], Zhao et al. 2007:454 [ref. 29515], Matsunuma et al. 2010:80 [ref. 31558], Matsui et al. 2014:10 [ref. 33344], Parin et al. 2014:486 [ref. 33547], Kim et al. 2020:169 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:104 [ref. 37637], Ito et al. 2021:[9] [ref. 38897]). Current status: Valid as Gymnogobius heptacanthus (Hilgendorf 1879). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: China to Korea, Russia and Japan. Habitat: marine.

hilgendorfii, Gobius Pfeffer [G. J.] 1896:5 [Die Thierwelt Ost-Afrikas und der Nachbargebiete v. 3; ref. 14617] Kingani River, Tanzania. Syntypes: ZMB 13668 (3), ?14444 (1). •Synonym of Stenogobius gymnopomus (Bleeker 1853) -- (Maugé 1986:385 [ref. 6218]). •Valid as Stenogobius hilgendorfii (Pfeffer 1896) -- (Larson 2022:172 [ref. 39971], Causse et al. 2023:[14] 145 [ref. 40322]). Current status: Valid as Stenogobius hilgendorfii (Pfeffer 1896). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Western Indian Ocean: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) north to Somalia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

hinsbyi, Gobius McCulloch [A. R.] & Ogilby [J. D.] (ex Johnston) 1919:215, Pl. 33 (fig. 1) [Records of the Australian Museum v. 12 (no. 10); ref. 15219] Wedge Bay, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, depth 5-10 fathoms. Lectotype: TMH D.142/13023 [old no. 10934]. Paralectotypes: (25) AMS I.7516 (3), I.14201 (?24). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:160 [ref. 2676], Andrews 1971:2 [ref. 31471], Andrews 1992:112 [ref. 22689]. Appeared first as name only in Johnston 1903. Originally as (Gobius) hinsbyi Johnston; validly published by McCulloch & Ogilby. Technically the described specimen should be regarded as the lectotype. Hoese & Larson 2006:7 [ref. 28905] treat a holotype. •Valid as Nesogobius hinsbyi (McCulloch & Ogilby 1919) -- (Kuiter 1993:353 [ref. 23929], Gomon et al. 1994:802 [ref. 22532], McKay & Miller 1997:1468 [ref. 24951], Hoese & Larson 2006:7 [ref. 28905], Hoese & Larson 2006:1667 [ref. 29097], Hoese & Larson 2008:765 [ref. 30660], Hammer et al. 2015:374 [ref. 34092]). Current status: Valid as Nesogobius hinsbyi (McCulloch & Ogilby 1919). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Australia: Tasmania and Victoria. Habitat: marine.

hipoliti, Gobius Metzelaar [J.] 1922:138, Fig. 1 [Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde v. 22; ref. 5741] Caracas Bay, southwestern Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. Holotype (unique): ZMA 110974. Type catalog: Nijssen et al. 1982:99 [ref. 19236]. •Valid as Quisquilius hipoliti (Metzelaar 1922) -- (Böhlke & Robins 1960:86 [ref. 11896], Robins & Ray 1986:249 [ref. 23100]). •Valid as Psilotris hipoliti (Metzelaar 1922) -- (Schwartz 1999:289 [ref. 25307]). •Valid as Priolepis hipoliti (Metzelaar 1922) -- (Greenfield 1989:399 [ref. 12545], Garzón-Ferreira & Acero P. 1991:391 [ref. 16949], Cervigón 1994:207 [ref. 24488], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:319 [ref. 25013], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:168 [ref. 27754], Collette et al. 2003:124 [ref. 26784], Murdy & Hoese 2003:1794 [ref. 27111], Smith et al. 2003:64 [ref. 27621], Ross & Rhode 2004:315 [ref. 27789], Nelson et al. 2004:173 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:725 [ref. 28815], Van Tassell 2011:142 [ref. 31732], Page et al. 2013:178 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:79 [ref. 33341], Robertson et al. 2020:155 [ref. 38098], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:76 [ref. 38844], Bennema & van Moorsel 2022:72 [ref. 39585], Martínez-Servín et al. 2023:113 [ref. 40726], Page et al. 2023:124 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Priolepis hipoliti (Metzelaar 1922). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: including Caribbean Sea. Habitat: marine.

hispanicus, Gobius niger forma de Buen [F.] 1928:16, Fig. 6 [Notas y résumenes, Instituto Español de Oceanografia; Ministerio de Marin. Madrid (Ser. 2) No. 27; ref. 17374] Málaga; Baleares Islands, Spain, western Mediterranean Sea. Syntypes: whereabouts unknown. •Synonym of Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758 -- (Miller 1973:483 [ref. 6888], Kottelat 1997:177 [ref. 22952], Parenti 2021:179 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

histrio, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] (ex Kuhl & van Hasselt) in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:132, Pl. 347 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Bantam; Java, eastern Indian Ocean; Tongatapu, Tonga Islands, South Pacific. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-3098 (2). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:33 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Gobiodon histrio (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Allen & Swainston 1988:136 [ref. 25477], Randall et al. 1990:403 [ref. 15987], Harold & Winterbottom 1995:687 [ref. 21923], Suzuki et al. 1995:6 [ref. 24355], Allen 1997:218 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:403 [ref. 25919], Harold & Winterbottom 1999:56 [ref. 23701], Munday et al. 1999:55 [ref. 24284], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:638 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1188 [ref. 25182], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3597 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1188 [ref. 26193], Thacker & Cole 2002:840 [ref. 26548], Allen & Adrim 2003:59 [ref. 26830], Randall et al. 2004:27 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:537 [ref. 28239], Herler & Hilgers 2005:116 [ref. 28528], Hoese & Larson 2006:1656 [ref. 29097], Harold et al. 2008:120 [ref. 29450], Larson et al. 2008:149 [ref. 29532], Suzuku et al. 2012:60 [ref. 32027], Allen & Erdmann 2012:898 [ref. 31980], Herler et al. 2013:327 [ref. 32889], Shibukawa et al. 2013:144 [ref. 32951], Larson et al. 2013:199 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:166 [ref. 33932], Golani & Fricke 2018:155 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:285 [ref. 36673], Parenti 2021:169 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:97 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:15 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Gobiodon histrio (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Andaman Islands east to Samoa, north to Philippines, south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.

hoepplii, Gobius Wu [H.-W.] 1931:38, Fig. 6 [Contributions from the Biological Laboratory of the Science Society of China. (Zoological Series) v. 7 (no. 1); ref. 16348] Fukien, China. Syntypes: (2). •Synonym of Awaous melanocephalus (Bleeker 1849) -- (Kottelat 2013:400 [ref. 32989] with question, Zhang et al. 2016:200 [ref. 34477]). Current status: Synonym of Awaous melanocephalus (Bleeker 1849). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

hoevenii, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1851:426 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 2 (no. 3); ref. 16897] Sambas, western Borneo, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): RMNH 4457. •Valid as Stigmatogobius hoevenii (Bleeker 1851) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:946 [ref. 20764]). •Valid as Hemigobius hoevenii (Bleeker 1851) -- (Kottelat et al. 1993:146 [ref. 23448], Larson & Williams 1997:370 [ref. 23967], Larson 1999:25 [ref. 24498], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:638 [ref. 25122], Larson 2001:73 [ref. 25522], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3601 [ref. 26293], Hoese & Larson 2006:1659 [ref. 29097], Larson et al. 2008:142 [ref. 29532], Shibukawa 2009:277 [ref. 30449], Larson et al. 2013:200 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:410 [ref. 32989], Huang et al. 2014:109 [ref. 33161], Taki et al. 2021:461 [ref. 39830], Jamandre 2023:168 [ref. 40455], Nallathambi et al. 2023:4 [ref. 40097]). Current status: Valid as Hemigobius hoevenii (Bleeker 1851). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: India east to Indonesia and Philippines, north to Vietnam. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

homocyanus, Gobius Vaillant [L. L.] & Sauvage [H.-E.] 1875:280 [Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (Sér. 3) v. 3; ref. 17853] Hawaiian Islands. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-8046 (2) poor condition. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:34 [ref. 19958]. •Synonym of Bathygobius cocosensis (Bleeker 1854) -- (Mundy 2005:472 [ref. 28379]). •Synonym of Bathygobius coalitus (Bennentt 1832) -- (Kottelat 2013:401 [ref. 32989] with question, Parenti 2021:99 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Bathygobius coalitus (Bennett 1832). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

humeralis, Gobius Duméril [A. H. A.] 1861:248, Pl. 21 (figs. 2-2a) [Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris v. 10 [for 1858]; ref. 1149] Gabon. Holotype: MNHN A-1193. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:34 [ref. 19958]. •Synonym of Bathygobius soporator (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Maugé 1986:362 [ref. 6218], Miller & Smith 1989:282 [ref. 25535], Miller 1990:926 [ref. 19376], Parenti 2021:104 [ref. 38603]). •Questionably a synonym of Bathygobius soporator (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Tornabene et al. 2010:159, 163 [ref. 30990]) Current status: Synonym of Bathygobius soporator (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

hypselosoma, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1867:407 [Archives néerlandaises des sciences exactes et naturelles v. 2; ref. 14040] Samberano River, Madagascar. Syntypes: RMNH 4485 (2), 4486 (2). •Valid as Gobius hypselosoma Bleeker 1867 -- (Maugé 1986:373 [ref. 6218]). •Valid as Awaous hypselosoma (Bleeker 1867) -- (Fricke et al. 2018:325 [ref. 35805]). •Synonym of Awaous aeneofuscus (Peters 1852) -- (Larson 2022:157 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Awaous aeneofuscus (Peters 1852). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Endemic to Madagascar [if valid]. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

immeritus, Parvigobius Whitley [G. P.] 1930:122 [Australian Zoologist v. 6 (pt 2); ref. 4669] Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. Syntypes: AMS I.434 (2). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:161 [ref. 2676]. Replacement name for Gobius flavescens De Vis 1884, preoccupied by Gobius flavescens Fabricius 1779. •Synonym of Redigobius bikolanus (Herre 1927) -- (Larson 2001:205 [ref. 25522], Hoese & Larson 2006:1681 [ref. 29097], Larson 2010:134 [ref. 30783], Kottelat 2013:423 [ref. 32989]). Replacement Name. Current status: Synonym of Redigobius bikolanus (Herre 1927). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

incognitus, Gobius Kovačić [M.] & Šanda [R.] 2016:1106, Fig. 1 [Journal of Fish Biology v. 88 (no. 3); ref. 34173] Gulf of Lyon, Banyuls-sur-Mer, Paulliles beach, France. Holotype: NMP P6V 141129. Paratypes: NMP, PMRVP. Plus non-type material. •Valid as Gobius incognitus Kovačić & Šanda 2016 -- (Kovačić 2020:77 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:24 [ref. 37519], Iglésias et al. 2021:14 [ref. 38136], Kovačić et al. 2021:40 [ref. 39014], Parenti 2021:178 [ref. 38603], Bilecenoğlu & Yokeş 2022:50 [ref. 39456], Kovačić & Kovtun 2022:55 [ref. 39519], Kovačić et al. 2022: 58 [ref. 39303], Renoult et al. 2022:127 [ref. 39288], Kovačić et al. 2023:4 [ref. 40095]). Current status: Valid as Gobius incognitus Kovačić & Šanda 2016. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Western Mediterranean Sea; northeastern Atlantic: coasts of adjacent Portugal and Marocco. Habitat: marine.

infaustus, Gobius Sauvage [H.-E.] 1880:42 [3] [Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série) v. 4; ref. 3887] Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Syntypes: MNHN A-1109 (2). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:34 [ref. 19958]. On p. 3 of separate. •Synonym of Arenigobius bifrenatus (Kner 1865) -- (Gomon et al. 1994:784 [ref. 22532], Hoese & Larson 2006:1624 [ref. 29097], Kuiter 2018:86 [ref. 36369], Parenti 2021:94 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Arenigobius bifrenatus (Kner 1865). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

inhaca, Gobius Smith [J. L. B.] 1949:103 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 12) v. 2 (no. 14) (art. 13); ref. 4077] Inhaca Island, Delagoa Bay, Mozambique, western Indian Ocean. Syntypes: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 219 (primary specimen), USNM 112208 (1). •Valid as Priolepis inhaca (Smith 1949) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:248 [ref. 6441], Hoese 1986:801 [ref. 5670], Winterbottom & Burridge 1993:2065 [ref. 21406], Aonuma et al. 1996:325 [ref. 22433], Anderson et al. 1998:27 [ref. 23611], Myers 1999:259 [ref. 23965], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:639 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1174 [ref. 25182], Hutchins 2001:44 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3599 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1174 [ref. 26193], Myers & Donaldson 2003:645 [ref. 27495], Randall 2005:548 [ref. 28239], Fricke & Kulbicki 2006:351 [ref. 28867], Hoese & Larson 2006:1678 [ref. 29097], Motomura et al. 2010:218 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:929 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:270 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2018:338 [ref. 35805], Moore et al. 2020:110 [ref. 37357], Larson 2022:128 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Valid as Priolepis inhaca (Smith 1949). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Comoros, Madagascar, Maldives and Chagos Archipelagon (British Indian Ocean Territory) east to Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), north to southern Japan, south to Kimberley (Western Australia). Habitat: marine.

interstinctus, Gobius Richardson [J.] 1844:3, Pl. 5 (figs. 3-6) [Ichthyology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus & Terror v. 2 (2); ref. 3740] Northwestern coast of Australia. Syntypes: (many) BMNH 1844.9.13.40 (1), 1845.9.19.621-622 (2), 1978.1.19.1 (1). •Synonym of Istigobius ornatus (Rüppell 1830) -- (Murdy & Hoese 1985:9 [ref. 5237], Hoese & Larson 2006:1661 [ref. 29097], Kottelat 2013:411 [ref. 32989], Parenti 2021:188 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Istigobius ornatus (Rüppell 1830). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

isognathus, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1867:411 [Archives néerlandaises des sciences exactes et naturelles v. 2; ref. 14040] Samberano River, Madagascar. Holotype (unique): RMNH 4486. •Synonym of Gobius hypselosoma Bleeker 1867 -- (Maugé 1986:373 [ref. 6218]). •See Fricke 1999:497 [ref. 24106]. •Synonym of Awaous aeneofuscus (Peters 1852) -- (Larson 2022:158 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Awaous aeneofuscus (Peters 1852). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

janthinopterus, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1853:702 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 3 (no. 5); ref. 16833] Wahai, Ceram, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): RMNH 6167. •Valid as Acentrogobius janthinopterus (Bleeker 1853) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:249 [ref. 6441], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:566 [ref. 25598], Kottelat et al. 1993:141 [ref. 23448], Myers 1999:244 [ref. 23965], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:635 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1243 [ref. 25182], Sakai et al. 2001:108 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:42 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3594 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1243 [ref. 26193], Tan & Lim 2004:110 [ref. 27716], Hoese & Larson 2006:1616 [ref. 29097], Larson et al. 2008:145 [ref. 29532], Shao et al. 2008:261 [ref. 29952], Allen & Erdmann 2012:954 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:188 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:397 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:156 [ref. 33932], Miesen et al. 2016:92 [ref. 34492], Prokofiev 2016:636 [ref. 35020] dated 1852, Koeda et al. 2016:88 [ref. 35333], Parenti 2021:79 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Acentrogobius janthinopterus (Bleeker 1853). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Western Pacific: Indonesia east to Philippines and New Guinea, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia. Habitat: brackish, marine.

javanicus, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1856:88 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 11 (no. 1); ref. 16856] Patjitan, southern Java, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): RMNH 4549 (1 of 44 mm of 3). •Valid as Stigmatogobius javanicus (Bleeker 1856) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:947 [ref. 20764], Indra 1993:190 [ref. 24009], Rema Devi 1993:181 [ref. 24020], Rema Devi et al. 1996:162 [ref. 24011]). •Valid as Pseudogobius javanicus (Bleeker 1856) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:268 [ref. 6441], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:577 [ref. 25598], Kottelat et al. 1993:150 [ref. 23448], Rainboth 1996:207 [ref. 22772], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:639 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1210 [ref. 25182], Kottelat 2001:61 [ref. 25482], Larson 2001:202 [ref. 25522], Larson & Murdy 2001:3601 [ref. 26293], Sakai et al. 2001:115 [ref. 25693], Nakabo 2002:1210 [ref. 26193], Tan & Lim 2004:111 [ref. 27716], Prokofiev 2007:149 [ref. 34653], Larson et al. 2008:143 [ref. 29532], Shibukawa 2009:285 [ref. 30449], Chen et al. 2014:132 [ref. 33159], Kottelat 2013:422 [ref. 32989], Huang et al. 2013:96 [ref. 33734], Huang et al. 2014:112 [ref. 33161], Chen et al. 2014:132 [ref. 33159], Labatos 2017:5 [ref. 36239], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:267 [ref. 36460], Taki et al. 2021:454 [ref. 39830], Jamandre 2023:169 [ref. 40455]). •Synonym of Pseudogobius poicilosoma (Bleeker 1849) -- (Larson & Hammer 2021:61 [ref. 38276]). Current status: Synonym of Pseudogobius poicilosoma (Bleeker 1849). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

jayakari, Gobius Boulenger [G. A.] 1888:663, Pl. 54 (fig. 2) [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1887 (pt 4); ref. 14479] Fresh waters near Muscat, Oman, Gulf of Oman, Arabian Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean. Syntypes: BMNH 1887.11.11.234-237 (4). •Valid as Awaous jayakari (Boulenger 1888) -- (Esmaeili et al. 2019:[2] [ref. 37285], Freyhof et al. 2020:212 [ref. 37658], Al-Jufaili et al. 2021:[7] [ref. 38743], Esmaeili et al. 2022:480 [ref. 39253], Larson 2022:158 [ref. 39971], Esmaeili & Hamidan 2023:214 [ref. 40377], Çiçek et al. 2024:316 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Awaous jayakari (Boulenger 1888). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Northwestern Indian Ocean: southern Yemen and Gulf of Oman east to Iran. Possibly introduced in Pakistan. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

jeffreysii, Gobius Günther [A.] 1867:290 [3], Pl. 5 (fig. C) [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 3) v. 20 (no. 118) (art. 37); ref. 14046] Off the Hebrides, North Atlantic, depth 80-90 fathoms. Syntypes: BMNH 1867.8.24.3-5 (3). On p. 3 of separate. •Valid as Buenia jeffreysii (Günther 1867) -- (Miller 1973:491 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1027 [ref. 13677], McKay & Miller 1997:1464 [ref. 24951], Fricke 2007:29 [ref. 30577], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:185 [ref. 31737], Kovačić et al. 2017:459 [ref. 35242], Kovačić et al. 2018:269, 275 [ref. 35846], Carneiro et al. 2019:179 [ref. 37250], Iglésias et al. 2020:298 [ref. 37987], Kovačić et al. 2021:87 [ref. 39014]). Current status: Valid as Buenia jeffreysii (Günther 1867). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Western Baltic Sea; North Sea; northeastern Atlantic: Iceland and Norway to English Channel; Portugal. Habitat: marine.

jenynsi, Ophiogobius Hoese [D. F.] 1976:304 [Copeia 1976 (no. 2); ref. 20691] Chonos Archipelago in Lowe's Harbor, south of Chiloé, off Chile, western coast of South America. No types known. Replacement name for Gobius ophicephalus Jenyns 1842 [misspelled by Hoese as ophiocephalus], but still preoccupied by Gobius ophiocephalus Pallas 1811 [regarded as same spelling based on Art. 58 of the Code]. •Valid as Ophiogobius jenynsi Hoese 1976 -- (Pequeño 1989:66 [ref. 14125], Stepien 1990:600 [ref. 19879], Van Tassell 2011:155 [ref. 31732]). Replacement Name. Current status: Valid as Ophiogobius jenynsi Hoese 1976. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southeastern Pacific: Chile. Habitat: brackish, marine.

johnstoniensis, Gobius Koumans [F. P.] (ex De Vis) 1940:166 [Zoologische Mededeelingen (Leiden) v. 22; ref. 2676] Johnstone River, Innisfail, Queensland, Australia. Lectotype: AMS I.447. Paralectotypes: AMS I.446 (1), I.448 (1). Apparently not available from Koumans. Based on manuscript name of De Vis found on specimens. A description is provided, but Koumans treated the specimens from Johnston River as (or probably) Stigmatogobius javanicus (Blkr.)." The name was not therefore treated as valid (name in synonymy) when proposed (Art. 11.5 of the Code). Subsequently made available back to Koumans 1940 by Whitley 1952:29, Fig. 6 [ref. 4717] as Stigmatogobius johnstoniensis. Lectotype selected by Whitley 1952:29 [ref. 4717]. •Synonymy of Redigobius bikolanus (Herre 1927) -- (Larson 2001:205 [ref. 25522], Hoese & Larson 2006:1681 [ref. 29097]). •Synonym of Redigobius balteatus (Herre 1935) -- (Kottelat 2013:422 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Redigobius balteatus (Herre 1935). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae.

jonklaasi, Gobius Axelrod [H. R.] 1972:F-300.10 (4 pp.), Color Figs. [Exotic tropical fishes. Looseleaf edition.; ref. 22712] Mountain streams, Sri Lanka. Not the same as Sicyopus jonklaasi described as new by Klausewitz & Henrich 1986. •Synonym of Sicyopterus lagocephalus (Pallas 1770) -- (Keith et al. 2019:166 [ref. 36794]). Current status: Synonym of Sicyopterus lagocephalus (Pallas 1770). Oxudercidae: Sicydiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

jonklaasi, Sicyopus Klausewitz [W.] & Henrich [S.] 1986:117, Figs. 2-3, 9-12 [Revue française d'Aquariologie Herpétologie v. 12 (no. 4) [for 1985]; ref. 5214] Fast flowing mountain stream at Atweltota, 5 kilometers from Badurelia, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka. Holotype: SMF 20398. Paratypes: NSMT-P 44112 (2), 44113 (2); SMF 20399 (1), 20400-401 (2, 3), 20402 (1), 20403-04 (6, 2), 20411 (4), 20427 (now 2). Available and not the same as Gobius jonklaasi Axelrod 1972. Secondary homonym of Sicyopus jonklaasi (Axelrod 1972) if the latter is a valid species in Sicyopus. •Valid as Sicyopus jonklaasi Klausewitz & Henrich 1986 -- (Pethiyagoda 1991:255 [ref. 20075], Maugé et al. 1992:228 [ref. 19910], Watson 1995:267 [ref. 21888], Watson 1998:70 [ref. 23640], Watson 1999:103 [ref. 24143], Keith et al. 2011:2726 [ref. 31651], Keith et al. 2014:174 [ref. 33540], Keith et al. 2015:146 [ref. 34328], Keith et al. 2019:166 [ref. 36794]). Current status: Valid as Sicyopus jonklaasi Klausewitz & Henrich 1986. Oxudercidae: Sicydiinae. Distribution: Sri Lanka [supposed to be amphidromous]. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

jozo, Gobius Linnaeus [C.] 1758:263 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Southern Europe. Syntypes: ?NRM 9453 (1), 9454 (1). Type catalog: Fernholm & Wheeler 1983:268-269 [ref. 20707]. Also appeared in Linnaeus 1764:65 [ref. 2788] as Gobius gozo. Species epithet misspelled jozzo by Cabrera et al. 1817:3 [ref. 17319], see Graells 1878:177 [ref. 30438]; Cuvier 1831:178 [ref. 30376]. •Valid as Gobius jozo Linnaeus 1758 -- (Herrera 1896:61 [ref. 39336]). •Synonym of Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758, but a valid subspecies -- (Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1042 [ref. 13677]). •Synonym of Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758 -- (Miller 1973:483 [ref. 6888], Maugé 1986:373 [ref. 6218], Miller 1990:935 [ref. 19376], Kottelat 1997:176 [ref. 22952] with question, Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:132 [ref. 26753], Vasil'eva 2003:S44 [ref. 28444], Ahnelt & Dorda 2004:8 [ref. 27637], Golani 2005:57 [ref. 37112], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:64 [ref. 36649], Parin et al. 2015:482 [ref. 33547], Golani 2021:76 [ref. 38303], Parenti 2021:178 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Gobius niger Linnaeus 1758. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

keiensis, Gobius Smith [J. L. B.] 1938:319, Fig. 1 [Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa v. 26 (pt 4); ref. 17173] Great Kei River mouth, South Africa, southwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 263 [ex AMG]. •Valid as Gobionellus keiensis (Smith 1938) -- (Maugé 1986:371 [ref. 6218]). •Valid as Oligolepis keiensis (Smith 1938) -- (Hoese 1986:796 [ref. 5670]). •Valid as Oxyurichthys keiensis (Smith 1938) -- (Pezold & Larson 2015:14 [ref. 33894], Fricke et al. 2018:336 [ref. 35805], Kovačić et al. 2023:132 [ref. 40094], Larson 2022:164 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Valid as Oxyurichthys keiensis (Smith 1938). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Western Indian Ocean: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) to Madagascar and Seychelles; eastern Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea migrant). Habitat: brackish, marine.

kessleri, Gobius Günther [A.] 1861:553 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 3; ref. 1964] Dniester River, Ukraine. Lectotype: ZIN 2107. Paralectotypes and/or Kessler material: NMW 29446, 3067 (1), 30552-53 (2); ZIN 2107a (1, lost), 2109 (1). Replacement name for Gobius platycephalus Kessler 1857, preoccupied twice in same family. Lectotype selected by Pinchuk 1977:590 [ref. 8999]. •Valid as Muellerigobius kessleri (Günther 1861) -- (Mihalcescu & Nalbant 2000:181 [ref. 26618]). •Valid as Neogobius kessleri (Günther 1861) -- (Berg 1949:1090 [ref. 20662], Miller 1973:503 [ref. 6888], Pinchuk 1977:590 [ref. 8999], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1062 [ref. 13677], Coad 1995:31 [ref. 23608], Kottelat 1997:178 [ref. 22952], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:755 [ref. 24702], Ahnelt et al. 1998:666 [ref. 23709], Ahnelt & Duchkowitsch 2001:217 [ref. 25591], Ahnelt & Duchkowitsch 2002:[2] 914 [ref. 27148], Vasil'eva 2003:S50 [ref. 28444], Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev 2003:280 [ref. 27347], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:183 [ref. 28369], Fricke et al. 2007:106 [ref. 29533], Kovačić & Engín 2008:74 [ref. 29624], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:581 [ref. 29996], Vasil'eva 2007:165 [ref. 30517], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:187 [ref. 31737]). •Valid as Ponticola kessleri (Günther 1861) -- (Neilson & Stepien 2009:97 [ref. 30487], Medvedev et al. 2013:705 [ref. 35208], Stepien & Neilson 2013:2 [ref. 35325], Parin et al. 2014:499 [ref. 33547], Vasil'eva et al. 2016:9 [ref. 34347], Artüz & Fricke 2019:559 [ref. 36612], Ćaleta et al. 2019:183 [ref. 37026], Manilo 2020:70 [ref. 37795], Tutman et al. 2020:8 [ref. 38008], Kvach et al. 2021:41 [ref. 38595], Parenti 2021:75 [ref. 38603], Gaye-Siessegger et al. 2022:207 [ref. 40017]). Replacement Name. Current status: Valid as Ponticola kessleri (Günther 1861). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eurasia: rivers of the Black Sea basin. Introduced elsewhere in Europe (including eastern Baltic Sea). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

key, Gobius Smith [J. L. B.] 1947:807 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 11) v. 13 (no. 108) (art. 77); ref. 4073] Inhaca Island, Delagoa Bay, Mozambique, western Indian Ocean, tide pool. Holotype (unique): SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 182. •Valid as Drombus key (Smith 1947) -- (Hoese 1986:786 [ref. 5670], Fricke et al. 2018:329 [ref. 35805], Larson 2022:78 [ref. 39971], Parenti 2021:133 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Drombus key (Smith 1947). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Seychelles and Madagascar. Habitat: marine.

knerii, Gobius Steindachner [F.] 1861:287, Pl. 1 (fig. 1) [Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften v. 42 (for 1860); ref. 4205] Hvar [Lesina], Croatia, Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea). Syntypes: NMW 37772-76 (5). •Valid as Pomatoschistus knerii (Steindachner 1861) -- (Miller 1973:507 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1070 [ref. 13677], McKay & Miller 1997:1464 [ref. 24951], Huyse et al. 2004:327 [ref. 27956], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:66 [ref. 36649], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:187 [ref. 31737], Engin & Innal 2017:6 [ref. 35516], Carneiro et al. 2019:183 [ref. 37250], Kovačić 2020:78 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:26 [ref. 37519], Kovačić et al. 2021:42 [ref. 39014], Kovačić et al. 2022: 75 [ref. 39303]). Current status: Valid as Pomatoschistus knerii (Steindachner 1861). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Western Mediterranean Sea (including Adriatic Sea); northeastern Atlantic: adjacent Portugal. Habitat: marine.

knutteli, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1858:16, Pl. 1 (fig. 2) [Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo-Neêrlandicae v. 3 (art. 10); ref. 360] Nagasaki, Japan. Holotype (unique): RMNH 4507. •Synonym of Cryptocentrus filifer (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Yanagisawa 1978:276 [ref. 7028]). •Synonym of Myersina filifer (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Hoese & Larson 2004:168 [ref. 28074]). •Valid as Myersina filifer (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Shibukawa & Satapoomin 2006:29 [ref. 28710]). Current status: Synonym of Myersina filifer (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

koelreuteri, Gobius Pallas [P. S.] 1770:8, Pl. 2 (figs. 1-3) [Spicilegia Zoologica v. 1 (fasc. 8); ref. 12293] Unknown locality. Syntypes: (2) plus. Kottelat (2013:418) says 2 syntypes plus Koelteuter material. •Valid as Periophthalmus koelreuteri (Pallas 1770) -- (Dor 1984:252 [ref. 29757], Maugé 1986:400 [ref. 6218], Ataur Rahman 1989:297 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:965 [ref. 20764], Coad 1991:22 [ref. 15702], Poll & Gosse 1995:111 [ref. 24781], Rafique 2000:327 [ref. 25220], Ataur Rahman 2003:322 [ref. 31338]). •Synonym of Periophthalmus barbarus (Linnaeus 1766) -- (Murdy 1989:35 [ref. 13628], Harrison & Miller in Lévêque et al. 1992:801 [ref. 21590] as koebreuteri, Khan 2003:10 [ref. 27710] as keelreuteri, Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2843 [ref. 34618]). Current status: Synonym of Periophthalmus barbarus (Linnaeus 1766). Oxudercidae: Oxudercinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

kokius, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:68 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Malabar, India; Puducherry, India; freshwaters of Alleppey [now Alappuzha], southeastern India; Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-0991 (14) Mauritius, A-1381 (1) Puducherry, A-1383 (5) Mauritius, A-1387 (2) Malabar. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:34 [ref. 19958]. Composite species, syntypes from India belonging to different species (Larson 2022:93 [ref. 39971]); lectotype designation needed. •Synonym of Glossogobius giuris (Hamilton 1822) -- (Menon 1999:294 [ref. 24904]). •Valid as Glossogobius kokius (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Maugé 1986:369 [ref. 6218], Fricke 1999:512 [ref. 24106], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S119 [ref. 27377], Fricke et al. 2009:101 [ref. 30213], Hoese & Hammer 2021:110 [ref. 38350], Parenti 2021:163 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:93 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Valid as Glossogobius kokius (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Western Indian Ocean: western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

kolombatovici, Gobius Kovačić [M.] & Miller [P. J.] 2000:232, Figs. 1-2 [Cybium v. 24 (no. 3); ref. 25014] The Island of Krk, Kamenjak, Croatia, Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea). Holotype: PMR VP642. Paratypes: PMR VP635 (2), VP636 (1), VP637 (2), VP638 (1), VP639 (2), VP640 (1), VP641 (1). •Valid as Gobius kolombatovici Kovačić & Miller 2000 -- (Herler et al. 2005:1044 [ref. 28118], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:64 [ref. 36649], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:186 [ref. 31737], Ćaleta et al. 2015:107 [ref. 34877], Iglésias et al. 2020:300 [ref. 37987], Kovačić 2020:77 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:25 [ref. 37519], Iglésias et al. 2021:10 [ref. 38136], Kovačić et al. 2021:40 [ref. 39014], Parenti 2021:178 [ref. 38603], Kovačić et al. 2022: 59 [ref. 39303], Renoult et al. 2022:142 [ref. 39288]). Current status: Valid as Gobius kolombatovici Kovačić & Miller 2000. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea: Adriatic Sea endemic. Habitat: marine.

kora, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:77 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Coromandel, India. No types known. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:56 [ref. 19958]. Based on Russell, p. 40, Pl. 50. •Synonym of Glossogobius giuris (Hamilton 1822) -- (Menon 1999:294 [ref. 24904], Kottelat 2013:407 [ref. 32989] with question, Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:232 [ref. 37983], Parenti 2021:162 [ref. 38603] with question). Current status: Synonym of Glossogobius giuris (Hamilton 1822). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

koseirensis, Gobius Klunzinger [C. B.] 1871:474 [Verhandlungen der K.-K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien v. 21; ref. 2622] Al-Qusair, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt, Red Sea. Types: ZMB 8014 (1). Original description leaves it unclear if based on a unique holotype or on syntypes. •Valid as Gobius koseirensis Klunzinger 1871 -- (Dor 1984:247 [ref. 29757]). •Synonym of Favonigobius reichei (Bleeker 1854) -- (Larson 2022:87 [ref. 39971] with question). Current status: Uncertain as Favonigobius reichei (Bleeker 1854). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

kraussii, Gobius Steindachner [F.] 1879:134 [16], Pl. 2 (figs. 2-2a) [Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 80 (nos 1-2); ref. 4229] Mouth of río Maroni, Suriname. Neotype: MNHN A-1334. Type catalog: Fricke 1995:14 [ref. 28100], Fricke 2005:40 [ref. 29864] dated 1880. On p. 16 of separate. Neotype designated by Watson & Horsthemke 1995:84 [ref. 21933]; the holotype SMNS 1506 apparently lost. •Absolute synonym of Awaous flavus (Valenciennes 1837) after neotype selection -- (Watson & Horsthemke 1995:84 [ref. 21933], Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:658 [ref. 27061], Lasso-Alcalá & Lasso 2008:121 [ref. 30588]). Current status: Synonym of Awaous flavus (Valenciennes 1837). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

kreftii, Gobius Steindachner [F.] 1866:51 [Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe v. 3 (no. 7); ref. 20460] Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia. Holotype (unique): NMW 76985. Appeared first in the abstract as above, then in Steindachner 1866:451 [ref. 4210]; also on p. 28 of separate. Correct original spelling was kreftii (unused since 1919), but krefftii has become the correct spelling by prevailing usage (Art. 3.3.1). •Valid as Bathygobius kreffti (Steindachner 1866) -- (Kuiter 1993:347 [ref. 23929], Gomon et al. 1994:785 [ref. 22532], Johnson 1999:748 [ref. 25471], Larson & Murdy 2001:3595 [ref. 26293], Hoese & Larson 2006:1628 [ref. 29097] as kreftii, Hoese & Larson 2008:754 [ref. 30660], Larson 2011:237 [ref. 31740], Parenti 2021:102 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Bathygobius krefftii (Steindachner 1866). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southeastern Indian Ocean, southwestern Pacific: Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia (Australia). Habitat: brackish, marine.

kuhlii, Gobius Bleeker [P.] 1851:251, Pl. 1 (fig. 9) [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 1 (no. 3); ref. 16890] Menes (Bantam province), Tjiurang River. No types known. •inquirenda in Gobiidae --.(Kottelat 2013:396 [ref. 32989]). Gobiidae.

kurpah, Gobius Sykes [W. H.] 1839:158 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1838 (pt 6) (for 27 Nov. 1838); ref. 18720] Deccan, India. No types known. Appeared first as above, then in Sykes 1839:55 [ref. 4306]; more complete treatment in Sykes 1841:352, Pl. 61 (fig. 1) [ref. 18868]. •Synonym of Glossogobius giuris (Hamilton 1822) -- (Menon 1999:294 [ref. 24904], Kottelat 2013:407 [ref. 32989] with question, Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:232 [ref. 37983], Parenti 2021:162 [ref. 38603] with question). •Uncertain in Gobiidae -- (Hoese & Hammer 2021:111 [ref. 38350]). Gobiidae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

labiatus, Gobius (Rhinogobius) Weber [M.] 1913:470 [Die Fische der Siboga-Expedition; ref. 4602] Labuan Badjo, western Flores, Indonesia, Siboga station 50, depth 17-35 meters. Syntypes: (2) ZMA 112904 (1). Type catalog: Nijssen et al. 1982:99 [ref. 19236]. Second syntype presumed lost (Larson 1990:29 [ref. 16607]). •Valid as Pleurosicya labiata (Weber 1913) -- (Larson 1990:27 [ref. 16607], Ikeda et al. 1999:20 [ref. 24155], Nakabo 2000:1216 [ref. 25182], Allen 2000:121 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:44 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3599 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1216 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:60 [ref. 26830], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:190 [ref. 27510], Greenfield & Randall 2004:536 [ref. 28175], Hoese & Larson 2006:1676 [ref. 29097], Shibukawa 2009:283 [ref. 30449], Allen & Erdmann 2012:906 [ref. 31980], Wada in Motomura et al. 2021:73 [ref. 38121], Sato et al. 2023:11 [ref. 40949]). Current status: Valid as Pleurosicya labiata (Weber 1913). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Sri Lanka east to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.

lacertus, Gobius Poey [F.] 1860:278 [Memorias sobre la historia natural de la Isla de Cuba v. 2; ref. 3499] Cuba. Syntypes and/or Poey specimens: MCZ 13114 (orig. 9, now 8), ?NMW 33927-28 (2), USNM 120413 [ex MCZ 13114] (1, possibly the 92-mm primary specimen). Type catalog: Howell Rivero 1938:214 [ref. 22926]. •Valid as Bathygobius lacertus (Poey 1860) -- (Tornabene et al. 2010:154 [ref. 30990], Van Tassell 2011:140 [ref. 31732], Page et al. 2013:175 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Collette 2013:180 [ref. 32953], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:75 [ref. 33341], Rodríguez-Rey et al. 2017:11 [ref. 35433], Parenti 2021:103 [ref. 38603], Martínez-Servín et al. 2023:113 [ref. 40726], Page et al. 2023:120 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Bathygobius lacertus (Poey 1860). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Bermuda, Bahamas, Florida (U.S.A.) and Mexico south to Panama, including Caribbean Sea. Habitat: brackish, marine.

lacrymosus, Gobius Peters [W. (C. H.)] 1868:265 [Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1868; ref. 3442] Quingoa River, Bulacan Province, Luzon Island, Philippines. Syntypes: (several) ?BMNH 1868.7.10.10-11 (2), ?1870.3.29.4 (1); MNHN 0000-6159 (2); ZMB 6679-80 (4, 1). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:34 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Stenogobius lachrymosus (Peters 1868) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:271 [ref. 6441], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:473 [ref. 23876], Zhu 1995:181 [ref. 25213]). •In a category synonyms/misidentifications under Stenogobius genivittatus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Rainboth 1996:208 [ref. 22772]). •Synonym of Stenogobius ophthalmoporus (Bleeker 1854) -- (Watson 1991:595 [ref. 19908], Kottelat 2013:429 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Stenogobius ophthalmoporus (Bleeker 1854). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater.

lacteus, Gobius Nordmann [A. von] 1840:430, Pl. 10 (fig. 3) [Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée; ref. 3209] Dniester River and lagoon, near Ovidiopol and Akkermann, Ukraine. Syntypes: ?MNHN A-1198 (3) Black Sea, ?NMW 29505-06 (2). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:34 [ref. 19958]. •Synonym of Neogobius fluviatilis (Pallas 1814) -- (Berg 1949:1091 [ref. 20662], Miller 1973:502 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1060 [ref. 13677], Kottelat 1997:178 [ref. 22952], Vasil'eva 1998:139 [ref. 23591], Pinchuk et al. 2003:222 [ref. 27349], Vasil'eva 2003:S49 [ref. 28444], Neilson & Stepien 2009:96 [ref. 30487], Parin et al. 2014:493 [ref. 33547], Parenti 2021:73 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Neogobius fluviatilis (Pallas 1814). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

lactipes, Gobius Hilgendorf [F. M.] 1879:109 [Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1879; ref. 21467] Tokyo, Japan. Holotype (unique): ZMB 10650. Misspelled Aboma latipes by Chu 1931:163 [ref. 18000]. •Valid as Aboma lactipes (Hilgendorf 1879) -- (Berg 1949:1080 [ref. 20662], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:752 [ref. 24702], Cheng & Zhou 1997:383 [ref. 26385] dated 1878, Vasil'eva 1998:125 [ref. 23591], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:47 [ref. 26178], Wang et al. 2001:266 [ref. 26566] dated 1878). •Valid as Acanthogobius lactipes (Hilgendorf 1879) -- (Okada 1961:668 [ref. 6363], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:365 [ref. 7348], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:278 [ref. 6441], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:625 [ref. 25598], Shibukawa & Taki 1996:84 [ref. 22115], Kim 1997:441 [ref. 24032], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:13 [ref. 24670], Sato et al. 1998:41 [ref. 24972], Mizuno et al. 1999:11 [ref. 25311], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:635 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1208 [ref. 25182], Lee 2001:50 [ref. 25335], Pietsch et al. 2001:145 [ref. 25688], Shimizu 2001:40 [ref. 25799], Kim & Park 2002:365 [ref. 25913], Nakabo 2002:1208 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:398, 656 [ref. 26218], Yonezawa & Shinomiya 2002:2 [ref. 26563], Hagiwara 2003:38 [ref. 27188], Jang et al. 2003:120 [ref. 27681], Vasil'eva 2003:S41 [ref. 28444], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:215 [ref. 28183], Shedko & Chereshnev 2005:453 [ref. 30089] dated 1878, Shibukawa & Iwata 2013:46 [ref. 32580], Matsui et al. 2014:6 [ref. 33344], Parin et al. 2015:475 [ref. 33547], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:188 [ref. 35257], Kim et al. 2020:169 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:102 [ref. 37637], Dyldin et al. 2021:35 [ref. 38804]). Current status: Valid as Acanthogobius lactipes (Hilgendorf 1879). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: China to Korea, Japan and Russia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

laevis, Gobius Steindachner [F.] 1879:138 [20] [Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 80 (nos 1-2); ref. 4229] Hakodate,Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. Holotype (unique): NMW 29508. On p. 20 of separate. •Synonym of Gymnogobius macrognathos (Bleeker 1860) -- (Berg 1949:1073 [ref. 20662] as macrognathus). •Synonym of Chaenogobius annularis Gill 1859 -- (Okada 1961:676 [ref. 6363]). •Valid as Chaenogobius laevis (Steindachner 1879) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:276 [ref. 6441], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:614 [ref. 25598], Zhu 1995:179 [ref. 25213], Matsuura et al. 2000:225 [ref. 26000]). •Synonym of Chaenogobius urotaena (Hilgendorf 1879) -- (Kim 1997:581 [ref. 24032] as urotaenius). •Valid as Rhodoniichthys laevis (Steindachner 1879) -- (Reshetnikov et al. 1997:757 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:146 [ref. 23591], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:47 [ref. 26178]). •Valid as Gymnogobius laevis (Steindachner 1879) -- (Nakabo 2000:1200 [ref. 25182], Pietsch et al. 2001:146 [ref. 25688], Nakabo 2002:1200 [ref. 26193]). •Synonym of Gymnogobius urotaenia (Hilgendorf 1879) -- (Stevenson 2002:303 [ref. 26489], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:224 [ref. 28183], Zhao et al. 2007:454 [ref. 29515], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:191 [ref. 35257]). Current status: Synonym of Gymnogobius urotaenia (Hilgendorf 1879). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

lagocephalus, Gobius Pallas [P. S.] 1770:14, Pl. 2 (figs. 6-7) [Spicilegia Zoologica v. 1 (fasc. 8); ref. 12293] Ravine St. Gilles, Réunion, western Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Neotype: SMF 28571. Neotype designation by Fricke 1999:523 [ref. 24106] is invalid; see Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. Also neotype designation [SMF 28571] by "G. Marquet" in Watson et al. 2000:13 [ref. 25138] is invalid, not meeting the conditions of Article 75.3 of the Code. See discussion in Sparks & Nelson 2004:17 [ref. 27700]. Neotype validly selected by Kottelat 2007:693 [see ref. 30606]. Name placed on Official List in Opinion 2239. •Nomen dubium, incertae sedis in subfamily Sicydiinae -- (Sparks & Nelson 2004:17 [ref. 27700]). •Valid as Sicyopterus lagocephalus (Pallas 1770) -- (Maugé 1986:383 [ref. 6218], Balon & Bruton 1994:25 [ref. 22317], Fricke 1999:523 [ref. 24106], Keith et al. 1999:116 [ref. 24548], Watson et al. 2000:13 [ref. 25138], Nakabo 2000:1159 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:62 [ref. 25191], Stiassny & Harrison 2000:152 [ref. 25252], Sasaki et al. 2001:2 [ref. 25228], Watson et al. 2001:42 [ref. 25349], Buden et al. 2001:6 [ref. 25496], Sakai et al. 2001:118 [ref. 25693], Allen et al. 2002:274 [ref. 25930], Keith et al. 2002:126 [ref. 31473], Nakabo 2002:1159 [ref. 26193], Keith et al. 2002:188 [ref. 26363], Myers & Donaldson 2003:642 [ref. 27495] dated 1774, Keith et al. 2004:117 [ref. 27828], Hoese & Larson 2006:1683 [ref. 29097], Fricke et al. 2009:103 [ref. 30213], Yonezawa et al. 2010:257 [ref. 30902], Keith et al. 2012:303 [ref. 31972], Kottelat 2013:428 [ref. 32989], Keith et al. 2015:102 [ref. 34328], Koeda et al. 2016:94 [ref. 35333], Maeda & Saeki 2018:260 [ref. 36339], Arndt & Fricke 2019:17 [ref. 36883], Akaike et al. 2021:30 [ref. 38809], Amick & Toko 2021:8 [ref. 38599], Keith et al. 2021:146 [ref. 38257], Larson 2022:179 [ref. 39971], Praveenraj et al. 2022:[9] [ref. 39577], Donaldson et al. 2023:[2] [ref. 40378], Ito & Shono 2023:26 [ref. 39898], Jamandre 2023:169 [ref. 40455]). Current status: Valid as Sicyopterus lagocephalus (Pallas 1770). Oxudercidae: Sicydiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Comoros, Réunion, Mauritius (Mascarenes) east to French Polynesia, north to Kochi Prefecture (Japan), south to New Caledonia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

lanceolata, Eleotris Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:67, Pl. 15 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Ennore Estuary, Madras, India. Neotype: USNM 279321. Spelled lanceolatus in plate caption. Neotype designated by Murdy 1989:48 [ref. 13628]. Subjectively invalid; secondarily preoccupied in Gobius by Gobius lanceolatus Bloch, replaced by Gobius elongatus Cuvier 1816. •Considered valid as Pseudapocryptes lanceolatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Murdy 1989:47 [ref. 13628], Ataur Rahman 1989:291 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:958 [ref. 20764], Rema Devi 1993:182 [ref. 24020], Kottelat et al. 1993:150 [ref. 23448], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:565 [ref. 27969], Rainboth 1996:211 [ref. 22772], Mishra et al. 1999:88 [ref. 25315], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:187 [ref. 25703], Prokofiev 2016:650 [ref. 35020]). •Synonym of Pseudapocryltes elongatus (Cuvier 1816) -- (Ataur Rahman 2003:317 [ref. 31338]). •Should be considered as a synonym of Pseudapocryptes elongatus (Cuvier 1816) -- (Ferraris 1995:984 [ref. 22402]). 2°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Pseudapocryptes elongatus (Cuvier 1816). Oxudercidae: Oxudercinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

lanceolatus, Gobius Bloch [M. E.] 1783:8, Pl. 38 (fig. 1, 6) [M. Marcus Elieser Bloch's ..., ausübenden Arztes zu Berlin, Oeconomische Naturgeschichte der Fische Deutschlands v. 2; ref. 19644] Martinique Island, West Indies. No types known. On p. 7 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 2 [ref. 21381]. •Synonym of Gobionellus oceanicus (Pallas 1770) -- (Maugé 1986:372 [ref. 6218], Miller 1990:950 [ref. 19376], Pezold 2004:292 [ref. 27686]). Current status: Synonym of Gobionellus oceanicus (Pallas 1770). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

lanceolatus, Gobius Sadelin [P. U. F.] & Alcenius [J. J.] 1819:41 [Fauna Fennica, sive enumeratio animalium quae alit terra Finlandiae insulaeque ei adjacentes Parts 2-3; ref. 18650] Finland ["In regionibus Fenniae meridionalibus"]. Objectively invalid, preoccupied by Gobius lanceolatus Bloch 1783. 1°Homonym. Gobiidae.

lateralis, Gobius Macleay [W.] 1881:602 [Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales v. 5 (pt 4); ref. 2869] King George Sound, Western Australia. Syntypes: AMS I.16386-001 [ex MAMU F893] (3). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:158 [ref. 2676], Stanbury 1969:208 [ref. 19518]. •Valid as Favonigobius lateralis (Macleay 1881) -- (Paulin et al. 1989:225 [ref. 24556], Gill & Miller 1990:516 [ref. 16711], Gill 1993:177 [ref. 21981], Kuiter 1993:348 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:167 [ref. 25479], Gomon et al. 1994:790 [ref. 22532], Kuiter 1997:352 [ref. 25488], Willis et al. 1999:189 [ref. 24629], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Hoese & Larson 2006:1649 [ref. 29097], Hoese & Larson 2008:758 [ref. 30660], Larson 2011:237, 238 [ref. 31740], Hammer et al. 2015:374 [ref. 34092], Hoschke et al. 2019:160 [ref. 36626], Parenti 2021:154 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Favonigobius lateralis (Macleay 1881). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southeastern Indian Ocean: Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. Habitat: brackish, marine.

lateristriga, Gobius Duméril [A. H. A.] 1861:247, Pl. 21 (figs 1-1a) [Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris v. 10 [for 1858]; ref. 1149] Gabon. Lectotype: MNHN 0000-6228-1. Paralectotypes: MNHN 0000-6228-2 (1). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:35 [ref. 19958]. Lectotype selected by Watson 1996:10 [ref. 22211]. •Valid as Chonophorus lateristriga (Duméril 1861) -- (Maugé 1986:364 [ref. 6218], Lévêque et al. 1989:123 [ref. 26480], Paugy & Bénech 1989:304 [ref. 26478], Miller 1990:928 [ref. 19376], Paugy et al. 1990:343 [ref. 26477], Lévèque et al. 1991:146 [ref. 31367], Harrison & Miller in Lévêque et al. 1992:809 [ref. 21590], Afonso et al. 1999:86 [ref. 25466]). •Valid as Awaous lateristriga (Duméril 1861) -- (Watson 1996:10 [ref. 22211], Harrison et al. 2007:519 [ref. 30083], Wirtz et al. 2007:39 [ref. 30263], Schliewen 2011:210 [ref. 31738], Félix et al. 2016:D [4] [ref. 34346], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2841 [ref. 34618], Pezold et al. 2016:107 [ref. 34870], Almeida & Alves 2019:270 [ref. 37509], Reiner 2019:263 [ref. 38139], Skelton 2019:237 [ref. 36564], Fermon et al. 2022:222 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Awaous lateristriga (Duméril 1861). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Senegal south to Angola, including Bioko (Equatorial Guinea), and São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

laticeps, Gobius Moreau [É.] 1881:215, Fig. 103-104 [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Moreau); ref. 3040] St-Valéry en Caux [Craux], La Manche/English Channel, France, northeastern Atlantic. Holotype (unique): MNHN 1898-0395. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:35 [ref. 19958]. •Synonym of Pomatoschistus microps (Krøyer 1838) -- (Miller 1973:509 [ref. 6888], Miller 1990:944 [ref. 19376], Kottelat 1997:180 [ref. 22952], Vasil'eva 1998:144 [ref. 23591], Miller in Miller 2004:293 [ref. 27853]). Current status: Synonym of Pomatoschistus microps (Krøyer 1838). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

latifrons, Gobius Boulenger [G. A.] 1897:427, Pl. 28 (fig. 2) [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1897 (pt 2); ref. 539] Lake Matanna and Kalaena River, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Lectotype: NMBA 1847. Paralectotypes: (12) BMNH 1897.3.8.5-7 (3), NMBA 1847-52 (6). Lectotype selected by Larson 2001:135 [ref. 25522]. •Valid as Mugilogobius latifrons (Boulenger 1897) -- (Larson & Kottelat 1992:231 [ref. 20008], Kottelat et al. 1993:146 [ref. 23448], Larson 2001:132 [ref. 25522], Kottelat 2013:413 [ref. 32989], Larson et al. 2014:720 [ref. 33557], Miesen et al. 2016:94 [ref. 34492]). Current status: Valid as Mugilogobius latifrons (Boulenger 1897). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Malili Lakes system, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia. Habitat: freshwater.

lentiginosus, Gobius Richardson [J.] 1844:3, Pl. 1 (figs. 5-6) [Ichthyology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus & Terror v. 2 (2); ref. 3740] Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Syntypes: (3?) BMNH 1844.9.13.29-30 (2) •Valid as Acentrogobius lentiginosus (Richardson 1844) -- (Paulin et al. 1989:225 [ref. 24556], Willis et al. 1999:189 [ref. 24629]). •Valid as Favonigobius lentiginosus (Richardson 1844) -- (Johnson 1999:748 [ref. 25471], Larson & Murdy 2001:3597 [ref. 26293], Hoese & Larson 2006:1649 [ref. 29097], Larson 2011:238 [ref. 31740], Hoese 2015:1579 [ref. 34304], Parenti 2021:154 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Favonigobius lentiginosus (Richardson 1844). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southwestern Pacific: Australia, Lord Howe Island and New Zealand. Habitat: brackish, marine.

leopardinus, Gobius Nordmann [A. von] 1840:436, Pl. 13 (fig. 4) [Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée; ref. 3209] Sebastopol, Crimea, Ukraine. Syntypes: ?MNHN A-1402 (1) Tauria, Crimea; ?ZIN 2144 (2). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:35 [ref. 19958]. According to Kottelat 1997:180 [ref. 22952], MNHN A.1402 may be the holotype as Nordman mentions only 1 specimen. •Synonym of Pomatoschistus microps (Kroyer 1838), but a valid subspecies -- (Berg 1949:1064 [ref. 20662]). •Synonym of Pomatoschistus marmoratus (Risso 1810) -- (Miller 1973:508 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1072 [ref. 13677], Kottelat 1997:180 [ref. 22952], Vasil'eva 1998:143 [ref. 23591], Vasil'eva 2003:S51 [ref. 28444], Fricke et al. 2007:107 [ref. 29533], Parin et al. 2014:495 [ref. 33547] ). Current status: Synonym of Pomatoschistus marmoratus (Risso 1810). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

lepidogenys, Gobius Robins [C. R.] 1970:281, Fig. 1 [Studies in Tropical Oceanography (Miami) No. 4 (pt 2); ref. 7776] Northeastern coast of Annobon Island between Pta. Yoyo and Pta. Pedrinha, near San Juan Chapel, Equatorial Guinea, Gulf of Guinea. Holotype (unique): ANSP 109035. Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:107 [ref. 13621]. •Synonym of Gorogobius nigricinctus (Delais 1951) -- (Miller 1990:938 [ref. 19376]). Current status: Synonym of Gorogobius nigricinctus (Delais 1951). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

lepidus, Gobius Girard [C. F.] 1858:127, Pl. 25a (figs. 5-6) [General report upon zoology of the several Pacific railroad routes, 1857; ref. 4911] San Francisco, California, U.S.A. Syntypes: USNM 361 (1), 362 (1). Replacement name for Gobius gracilis Girard 1854, preoccupied by Gobius gracilis Jenyns 1835. •Valid as Lepidogobius lepidus (Girard 1858) -- (Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:263 [ref. 9277], Matarese et al. 1989:548 [ref. 26885], McAllister 1990:176 [ref. 14674], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:802 [ref. 25968], Nelson et al. 2004:172 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:162 [ref. 37547], Van Tassell 2011:144 [ref. 31732], Page et al. 2013:177 [ref. 32708], Pietsch & Orr 2015:66 [ref. 34694], Kells et al. 2016:306 [ref. 35888], Burton & Lea 2019:90 [ref. 37205], Love et al. 2021:205 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:123 [ref. 40505]). Replacement Name. Current status: Valid as Lepidogobius lepidus (Girard 1858). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: southeastern Alaska (U.S.A.) south to Pacific coast of central Baja California (Mexico). Habitat: marine.

lesuerii, Gobius Risso [A.] 1827:284 [Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale v. 3; ref. 3757] Incorrect subsequent spelling of (or unjustified emendation of) Gobius suerii Risso 1810; from Nice, France. •In the synonymy of Lesueurigobius suerii (Risso 1810) -- (Miller 1973:499 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1053 [ref. 13677] as lesueurii, Miller 1990:941 [ref. 19376], Parenti 2021:192 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Synonym of Lesueurigobius suerii (Risso 1810). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

leucomelas, Gobius Peters [W. (C. H.)] (ex Hemprich & Ehrenberg) 1868:147 [Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1868; ref. 3441] Massawa, Eritrea, Red Sea. Syntypes: ZMB 2112 (2). •Valid as Gobius leucomelas Peters 1868 -- (Dor 1984:247 [ref. 29757]). •Identity uncertain. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: marine.

leucostictus, Gobius Günther [A.] 1872:664, Pl. 63 (fig. C) [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871 (pt 3) (art. 1) (for 21 Nov. 1871); ref. 1997] Tonga Islands. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1871.9.13.174. •Valid as Cryptocentrus leucostictus (Günther 1872) -- (Randall et al. 1990:399 [ref. 15987], Allen 1997:214 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:399 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:239 [ref. 23965], Allen 2000:119 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3596 [ref. 26293], Allen & Adrim 2003:57 [ref. 26830], Randall et al. 2004:26 [ref. 27624] dated 1871, Hoese & Larson 2004:168 [ref. 28074], Randall 2005:527 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Larson 2006:1638 [ref. 29097], Shibukawa et al. 2012:58 [ref. 32036], Allen & Erdmann 2012:873 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:161 [ref. 33932], Pinault et al. 2015:238 [ref. 34021], Fricke et al. 2019:278 [ref. 36673], Parenti 2021:127 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Cryptocentrus leucostictus (Günther 1872). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Andaman Sea and Indonesia east to Palau, Tonga and Samoa, north to Yaeyama Islands, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.

lichensteinii, Gobius Steindachner [F.] & Kolombatović [G.] 1883:214 [Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 20 (no. 25) (for 22 Nov. 1883); ref. 14351] Solta Island, Croatia, Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea). Syntypes: (several) NMW. Originally treated as a new species in the above abstract, later considered as specimens of Gobius colonianus in subsequent main work (Steindachner & Kolombatović 1884 [ref. 18745]). •Synonym of Deltentosteus collonianus (Risso 1820) -- (Miller 1973:495 [ref. 6888] as colonianus and dated to 1826). Current status: Synonym of Deltentosteus collonianus (Risso 1820). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: marine.

lidwilli, Gobius McCulloch [A. R.] 1917:185, Pl. 31 (fig. 2) [Records of the Australian Museum v. 11 (no. 7); ref. 15122] Cowan Creek, Hawkesbury River, New South Wales, Australia. Holotype: AMS I.13628. Paratypes: AMS I.17815-001 [ex AMS I.13628] (130), I.17815-002 [ex AMS I.13628] (2). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:163 [ref. 2676]. •Valid as Pandaka lidwilli (McCulloch 1917) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:275 [ref. 6441], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:612 [ref. 25598], Takahashi 1995:67 [ref. 25529], Larson & Williams 1997:369 [ref. 23967], Johnson 1999:749 [ref. 25471], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:639 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1248 [ref. 25182], Larson 2001:198 [ref. 25522], Larson & Murdy 2001:3601 [ref. 26293], Sakai et al. 2001:115 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:1248 [ref. 26193], Hoese & Larson 2006:1670 [ref. 29097], Shibukawa 2009:282 [ref. 30449], Larson et al. 2013:203 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:416 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Valid as Pandaka lidwilli (McCulloch 1917). Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Western Pacific and eastern Indian Ocean. Habitat: brackish, marine.

liechtensteini, Gobius Kolombatović [G.] 1891:25 [Godicnje Izviesće C. K. Velike Realke u Splitu za Skolsku Godinu, Split v. 1890-1891; ref. 18430] Korcula, Croatia, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea. Neotype: NMW 37536. Type information: Ahnelt et al. 1994:170 [ref. 22330] who designated 20 specimens as neotypes! Some types are Odondebuenia balearicia (Pellegrin & Fage 1907), see Miller 1973:505 [ref. 6888]. Neotype selected by Ahnelt 2005:36 [ref. 31458] since syntype status could not be confirmed; some Kolombatovic specimens listed as types before are not this species; an earlier lectotype selection in invalid. •Valid as Chromogobius liechtensteini (Kolombatović 1891) -- (Miller 1973:493 [ref. 6888]). •Valid as Corcyrogobius liechtensteini (Kolombatović 1891) -- (Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1030 [ref. 13677], Ahnelt et al. 1994:170 [ref. 22330], Ahnelt & Patzner 1996:535 [ref. 24709], Ahnelt et al. 1998:183 [ref. 23487], Ballesta et al. 1998:290 [ref. 23581], Scsepka & Ahnelt 1999:78 [ref. 23868], Ahnelt & Dorda 2004:7 [ref. 27637], Ahnelt 2005:35, 37 [ref. 31458], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:62 [ref. 36649], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:185 [ref. 31737], Schliewen 2011:215 [ref. 31738], Kovačić et al. 2011:246 [ref. 32868], Kovačić et al. 2012:438 [ref. 32861], Bilecenoğlu 2016:261 [ref. 37566], Kovačić et al. 2020:23 [ref. 37519], Kovačić 2020:76 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:129 [ref. 37715], Digenis & Gerovasileiou 2021:647 [ref. 38798], Kovačić et al. 2021:39 [ref. 39014], Parenti 2021:117 [ref. 38603], Ragkousis et al. 2021:5 [ref. 38358], Kovačić et al. 2022: 46 [ref. 39303], Orenes-Salazar in Montesanto et al. 2022:973 [ref. 39977]). Current status: Valid as Corcyrogobius liechtensteini (Kolombatović 1891). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea endemic. Habitat: marine.