raninus, Gymnogobius Taranetz [A. Ya.] 1934:398 [Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, Ser. A (Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS), Leningrad v. 3 (no. 5); ref. 16462] Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan, Russia. Lectotype: ZIN 25485. Paralectotypes: (3) ZIN 35325 (1). Lectotype selected by Pinchuk 1978. •Valid as Gymngobius raninus Taranetz 1934 -- (Berg 1949:1075 [ref. 20662], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:375 [ref. 7348]). •Synonym in part of Chaenogobius macrognathus (Bleeker 1860) -- (Vasil'eva 1998:133 [ref. 23591]). •Valid as Chaenogobius raninus (Taranetz 1934) -- (Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:13 [ref. 24670]). •Synonym of Gymnogobius macrognathos (Bleeker 1860) -- (Stevenson 2002:285 [ref. 26489], Vasil'eva 2003:S46 [ref. 28444], Parin et al. 2014:487 [ref. 33547], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:189 [ref. 35257]). Current status: Synonym of Gymnogobius macrognathos (Bleeker 1860). Gobiidae: Gobionellinae. Habitat: brackish.