Species that contain: Gobius and similis [ 4 ] records

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.

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.

lindbergi, Rhinogobius similis Berg [L. S.] 1933:654, Fig. 612 [Les poissons des eaux douces de l'U.R.S.S. Part 2; ref. 279] Amur River, 7 km downstream of Vyatskoye, Khabarovsk Region, Russia. Holotype (unique): ZIN 17570. Original not yet seen. •Synonym of Gobius similis (Gill 1859) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:359 [ref. 7348]). •Synonym of Rhinogobius similis Gill 1859, but a valid subspecies as described -- (Berg 1949:1078 [ref. 20662], Vasil'eva 1998:146 [ref. 23591]). •Synonym of Rhinogobius similis Gill 1859 -- (Mitrofanov et al. 1992:269 [ref. 37756], Bogutskaya & Naseka 1996:55 [ref. 22798]). •Synonym of Rhinogobius brunneus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845) -- (Reshetnikov et al. 1997:757 [ref. 24702], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:47 [ref. 26178], Vasil'eva 2003:S53 [ref. 28444]). •Valid as Sinogobius lindbergi (Berg 1933) -- (Endruweit 2024:166 [ref. 41040]). •Valid as Rhinogobius lindbergi Berg 1933 -- (Sakai et al. 2000:51 [ref. 24911], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:235 [ref. 28183], Valil'eva 2007:696 [ref. 29425], Chen et al. 2008:341 [ref. 29895], Bogutskaya et al. 2008:353 [ref. 30085], Huang et al. 2016:[8] [ref. 34339], Zhang et al. 2016:204 [ref. 34477], Takahashi & Okazaki 2017:[2] [ref. 35171], Suzuki et al. 2017:81 [ref. 35202], Li et al. 2018:6 [ref. 35989], Esmaeili et al. 2019:[6] [ref. 37285], Kuljanishvili et al. 2020:[6] [ref. 37535], Zarei et al. 2021:[7] [ref. 38262], Çiçek et al. 2023:44 [ref. 40326], Çiçek et al. 2023:434 [ref. 40625], Epitashvili et al. 2023:1113 [ref. 40627], Çiçek et al. 2024:321 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Rhinogobius lindbergi Berg 1933. Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: East Asia: lower Amur River basin (Russia and Heilongjiang, China) and probably Ussuri River, Korea. Introduced in Georgia, Iran and Afghanistan. Habitat: freshwater.

similis, Rhinogobius Gill [T. N.] 1859:145 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 11; ref. 1762] The Hongo Bridge, Inouzawa-gawa River, Shimoda, southern Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, 34°41'36.63"N, 138°56'26.25"E. Old locality: Shimoda, Izu Province, Japan. Neotype: SPMN-PI 3182. Neotype designated by Suzuki et al. 2015:[4] [ref. 33993]. •Valid as Gobius similis (Gill 1859) -- (Kuroda 1953:277 [ref. 39545], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:359 [ref. 7348]). •Synonym of Rhinogobius brunneus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845) -- (Kim 1997:584 [ref. 24032], Vasil'eva 1998:146 [ref. 23591], Vasil'eva 2003:S53 [ref. 28444]). •Valid as Rhinogobius similis Gill 1859 -- (Berg 1949:1077 [ref. 20662], Okada 1961:658 [ref. 6363], Mitrofanov et al. 1992:269 [ref. 37756], Coad 1995:31 [ref. 23608], Bogutskaya & Naseka 1996:55 [ref. 22798], Coad 1996:86 [ref. 25304], Coad & Abdoli 2000:55 [ref. 25296] as cf. similis, Suzuki et al. 2012:698 [ref. 31734], Suzuki et al. 2015:[4] [ref. 33993], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:900 [ref. 34062], Takahashi & Okazaki 2017:[3] [ref. 35171], Suzuki et al. 2017:80 [ref. 35202], Endruweit 2017:558 [ref. 35366], Esmaeili et al. 2018:67 [ref. 36089], Li et al. 2018:8 [ref. 35989], Endruweit 2018:307 [ref. 36165], Dyldin et al. 2020:93 [ref. 37569], Kim et al. 2020:173 [ref. 39118], Shedko 2020:603 [782] [ref. 38169], Sonoyama et al. 2020:107 [ref. 37637], Akaike et al. 2021:29 [ref. 38809], Fu et al. 2021:9573 [ref. 39347], Guo 2021:872 [ref. 38618], Maeda et al. 2021:96 [ref. 38763], Suzuki et al. 2022:29 [ref. 39148], Chen et al. 2022:40 [ref. 39617]). Current status: Valid as Rhinogobius similis Gill 1859. Oxudercidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: East Asia: Japan, Russia (Primorskii krai), Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, northern Vietnam; possibly introduced in Singapore, introduced in Luzon (Philippines). Habitat: freshwater.