dussumieri, Boleophthalmus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:207, Pl. 354 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Mumbai, India. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-1468. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:19 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Boleophthalmus dussumieri Valenciennes 1837 -- (Murdy 1989:17 [ref. 13628], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:954 [ref. 20764], Coad 1991:22 [ref. 15702], Coad 1995:30 [ref. 23608], Randall 1995:329 [ref. 22896], Coad 1996:6 [ref. 23831], Coad 1996:71 [ref. 25297], Carpenter et al. 1997:213 [ref. 23922], Coad 1998:103 [ref. 23869], Rafique 2000:327 [ref. 25220], Mirza 2003:23 [ref. 27265], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S117 [ref. 27377], Khan 2003:10 [ref. 27710] in Boleopthalmus, Esmaeili et al. 2010:377 [ref. 33391], Murdy 2011:104 [ref. 31728], Polgar et al. 2013:319 [ref. 32496], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:898 [ref. 34062], Psomadakis et al. 2015:302 [ref. 34104], Esmaeili et al. 2015:123 [ref. 35030], Esmaeili et al. 2017:82 [ref. 35254], Murdy & Jaafar 2017:13 [ref. 35561], Ali et al. 2018:337 [ref. 36183], Esmaeili et al. 2018:63 [ref. 36089], Eagderi et al. 2019:60 [ref. 37020], Esmaeili et al. 2019:[6] [ref. 37285], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 14 [ref. 38321], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:231 [ref. 37983], Larson 2022:173 [ref. 39971], Muhala et al. 2022:[2] 282 [ref. 40965], Çiçek et al. 2023:27 [ref. 40616], Çiçek et al. 2024:322 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Boleophthalmus dussumieri Valenciennes 1837. Gobiidae: Oxudercinae. Distribution: Northwest Indian Ocean: East Africa, Persian Gulf and Oman east to India. Occurrence in Indonesia and Mauritius needs verification. Habitat: brackish, marine.