Species that contain: Periophthalmus and cantonensis [ 4 ] records

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.

cantonensis, Cyprinus Osbeck [P.] 1765:155 [Reise nach Ostindien und China; ref. 3311] Pearl River/Chu Chiang, at Huampo or Wampo/Huang Pu Harbour, Canton, Guangdong Province, China. No types known. Sometimes dated to pre-Linnaean 1758 (Swedish) or the 1771 English edition. •Valid as Periophthalmus cantonensis (Osbeck 1765) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:286 [ref. 6441], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:642 [ref. 25598], Zheng 1989:360 [ref. 21202], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:502 [ref. 23876], Cheng & Zhou 1997:392 [ref. 26385], Wang et al. 2001:282 [ref. 26566]). •Synonym of Periophthalmus modestus Cantor 1842 -- (Murdy 1989:41 [ref. 13628], Kottelat 2013:420 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Periophthalmus modestus Cantor 1842. Oxudercidae: Oxudercinae. Distribution: Western North Pacific: Hong Kong to Korea and southern Japan (if valid). Habitat: brackish, marine.

cantoris, Apocryptes Day [F.] 1871:693 [17] [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1870 (pt 3); ref. 1078] Andaman Islands. Lectotype: BMNH 1870.5.18.23. Possible paralectotypes/Day specimens: AMS B.8336 (1, non-type), ZSI 192 (1, lost). Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:161 [ref. 23762], Ferraris et al. 2000:296 [ref. 25110]. On p. 17 of separate. Lectotype selected in Springer 1978:9 [ref. 6955]. Reasons for loss of ZSI type specimens during WWII see Chopra 1947:349-350 [ref. 33077]. •Valid as Periophthalmus cantonensis (Day 1871) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:419 [ref. 7348] with author as Osbeck). •Valid as Scartelaos cantoris (Day 1871) -- (Murdy 1989:50 [ref. 13628], Murdy 2011:104 [ref. 31728], Kottelat 2013:426 [ref. 32989], Murdy & Jaafar 2017:30 [ref. 35561]). Current status: Valid as Scartelaos cantoris (Day 1871). Oxudercidae: Oxudercinae. Distribution: Andaman Islands. Habitat: marine.

novaeguineaensis, Periophthalmus cantonensis Eggert [B.] 1935:61, Pl. 3 (fig. 12); Fig. 2 [Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere (Jena) v. 67; ref. 13880] Merauke, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Lectotype: ZMA 119466 [ex ZMA 112945]. Paralectotypes: ZMA 112943-45 (1, 2, 21). Type catalog: Nijssen et al. 1982:102 [ref. 19236]. Originally as novae-guineaensis. Lectotype selected by Murdy 1989:42 [ref. 13628]. Comments on types for Periophthalmus cantonensis, subspecies novaeguineaensis Eggert 1935: Konstantinidis et al. 2016:[4] [ref. 34503]. •Valid as Periophthalmus novaeguineaensis Eggert 1935 -- (Murdy 1989:42 [ref. 13628], Allen 1991:190 [ref. 21090], Larson & Williams 1997:371 [ref. 23967], Allen et al. 2000:128 [ref. 27467], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3602 [ref. 26293], Allen et al. 2002:28 [ref. 25930], Larson & Takita 2004:181 [ref. 28075], Hoese & Larson 2006:1674 [ref. 29097], Jaafar & Larson 2008:948 [ref. 29863], Allen et al. 2008:179 [ref. 30265], Takita et al. 2011:198 [ref. 31704], Murdy 2011:105 [ref. 31728], Larson et al. 2013:205 [ref. 32988], Murdy & Jaafar 2017:26 [ref. 35561]). Current status: Valid as Periophthalmus novaeguineaensis Eggert 1935. Oxudercidae: Oxudercinae. Distribution: Australia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.