Species that contain: Palutrus and scapulopunctatus [ 2 ] records

meteori, Acentrogobius Klausewitz [W.] & Zander [C. D.] 1967:85, Fig. 1 [Meteor Forschungsergebnisse. Reihe D, Biologie No. 2; ref. 7825] Coast of Sarso Khebir Island, Farasan Archipelago , Saudi Arabia, Red Sea. Holotype: SMF 8188. Paratypes: SMF 8527 (1), ZMH H2902-05 (4). Type catalog: Wilkens 1977:160 [ref. 22013]. •Valid as Acentrogobius meteori Klausewitz & Zander 1967 -- (Goren 1979:20 [ref. 1852], Dor 1984:238 [ref. 29757]). •Valid as Bathygobius meteori (Klausewitz & Zander 1967) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:273 [ref. 6441], Goren & Dor 1994:63 [ref. 25356]). •Valid as Palutrus meteori (Klausewitz & Zander 1967) -- (Randall 1995:340 [ref. 22896], Nakabo 2000:1219 [ref. 25182], Nakabo 2002:1219 [ref. 26193], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S119 [ref. 27377], Koeda et al. 2016:93 [ref. 35333], Golani & Fricke 2018:158 [ref. 36273]). •Synonym of Palutrus scapulopunctatus (de Beaufort 1912) -- (Larson 2022:118 [ref. 39971]). Current status: Synonym of Palutrus scapulopunctatus (de Beaufort 1912). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southern Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: southern Oman; Ryukyu Islands (Japan) [if valid]. Habitat: marine.

scapulopunctatus, Gobius (Rhinogobius) de Beaufort [L. F.] 1912:137 [Zoologischer Anzeiger v. 39 (no. 3); ref. 235] Reef of Saonek, Pulau Waigeo, Papua, Indonesia, western Pacific. Syntypes: ZMA 111885 (orig. 3, now 2). Type catalog: Nijssen et al. 1982:100 [ref. 19236]. •Valid as Bathygobius scapulopunctatus (de Beaufort 1912) -- (Mohsin & Ambak 1996:562 [ref. 27969]). •Valid as Palutrus scapulopunctatus (de Beaufort 1912) -- (Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:639 [ref. 25122], Larson & Murdy 2001:3598 [ref. 26293], Heemstra et al. 2004:3329 [ref. 27945], Larson et al. 2008:150 [ref. 29532], Shibukawa 2009:282 [ref. 30449], Allen & Erdmann 2012:985 [ref. 31980], Golani & Fricke 2018:158 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:65 [ref. 37020], Sadeghi & Esmaeili 2019:145 [ref. 37019], Larson 2022:118 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:20 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Palutrus scapulopunctatus (de Beaufort 1912). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Persian Gulf, Seychelles, Madagascar and eastern Mascarenes (Rodrigues); Indonesia east to Fiji. Habitat: marine.