viridipunctatus, Gobius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:62 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Mumbai, India. Syntypes: MNHN A-1122 (1), 1395 (2). Originally as viridi-punctatus. •Valid as Acentrogobius viridipunctatus (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:249 [ref. 6441], Ataur Rahman 1989:308 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:926 [ref. 20764], Rema Devi 1993:172 [ref. 24020], Kottelat et al. 1993:141 [ref. 23448], Rainboth 1996:197 [ref. 22772], Suzuki et al. 1996:6 [ref. 24367], Larson & Williams 1997:367 [ref. 23967], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:635 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1243 [ref. 25182], Larson & Murdy 2001:3594 [ref. 26293], Sakai et al. 2001:109 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:42 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:1243 [ref. 26193], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S118 [ref. 27377], Larson & Wright 2003:130 [ref. 27481], Ataur Rahman 2003:334 [ref. 31338], Hoese & Larson 2006:1617 [ref. 29097], Larson et al. 2008:145 [ref. 29532], Shibukawa 2009:260 [ref. 30449], Larson et al. 2013:188 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:398 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:190 [ref. 34464], Jawad et al. 2016:1 [ref. 34964], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:254 [ref. 36460], Eagderi et al. 2019:58 [ref. 37020], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 14 [ref. 38321], Parenti 2021:82 [ref. 38603], Taki et al. 2021:435 [ref. 39830], Larson 2022:34 [ref. 39965], Hasan et al. 2023:2211 [ref. 40412], Thu & Thao 2023:642 [ref. 40499], Endruweit 2024:75 [ref. 41040]). Current status: Valid as Acentrogobius viridipunctatus (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa and Persian Gulf east to Vietnam, Philippines and New Guinea, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia. Habitat: brackish, marine.