cirratus, Amblyopus Blyth [E.] 1860:147 [Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal v. 29 (no. 2); ref. 477] Probably from fish market at Calcutta, India. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. •Valid as Taenioides cirratus (Blyth 1860) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:416 [ref. 7348], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:288 [ref. 6441], Maugé 1986:385 [ref. 6218], Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:309 [ref. 26639] dated 1806 [sic], Ataur Rahman 1989:314 [ref. 24860], Allen 1991:202 [ref. 21090], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:985 [ref. 20764], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:446 [ref. 23876], Kottelat et al. 1993:156 [ref. 23448], Rainboth 1996:213 [ref. 22772], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:640 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1157 [ref. 25182], Larson & Murdy 2001:3594 [ref. 26293], Sakai et al. 2001:120 [ref. 25693], Nakabo 2002:1157 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:400, 667 [ref. 26218], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S118 [ref. 27377], Ataur Rahman 2003:340 [ref. 31338], Proudlove 2006:269 [ref. 28992], Hoese & Larson 2006:1685 [ref. 29097], Allen et al. 2008:185 [ref. 30265], Larson et al. 2013:208 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:434 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2018:341 [ref. 35805], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 14 [ref. 38321], Parenti 2021:63 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:23 [ref. 39965], Jamandre 2023:170 [ref. 40455]). Current status: Valid as Taenioides cirratus (Blyth 1860). Gobiidae: Amblyopinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Oman and Madagascar east to New Guinea, south to northern Australia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.