guttatus, Luciogobius Gill [T. N.] 1859:146 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 11; ref. 1762] Shimoda, Japan. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. •Valid as Luciogobius guttatus Gill 1859, subspecies guttatus -- (Okada 1961:686 [ref. 6363]). •Valid as Luciogobius guttatus Gill 1859 -- (Berg 1949:1124 [ref. 20662], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:402 [ref. 7348], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:282 [ref. 6441], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:626 [ref. 25598], Cheng & Zhou 1997:370 [ref. 26385], Kim 1997:478 [ref. 24032], Takahashi et al. 1997:47 [ref. 24971], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:754 [ref. 24702], Sato et al. 1998:41 [ref. 24972], Vasil'eva 1998:136 [ref. 23591], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:13 [ref. 24670], Mizuno et al. 1999:11 [ref. 25311], Nakabo 2000:1164 [ref. 25182], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:239 [ref. 25480], Shinohara et al. 2000:183 [ref. 25987], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:47 [ref. 26178], Okiyama 2001:147 [ref. 25683], Pietsch et al. 2001:146 [ref. 25688], Sakai et al. 2001:113 [ref. 25693], Shimizu 2001:38 [ref. 25799], Wang et al. 2001:277 [ref. 26566], Kim & Park 2002:400 [ref. 25913], Nakabo 2002:1164 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:399, 661 [ref. 26218], Hagiwara 2003:38 [ref. 27188], Jang et al. 2003:120 [ref. 27681], Vasil'eva 2003:S48 [ref. 28444], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:225 [ref. 28183], Chen et al. 2008:253 [ref. 30075], Shedko & Chereshnev 2005:453 [ref. 30089], Motomura et al. 2010:215 [ref. 31256], Matsunuma et al. 2010:84 [ref. 31558], Kanagawa et al. 2011:67 [ref. 31329], Matsui et al. 2014:4 [ref. 33344], Parin et al. 2014:491 [ref. 33547], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:191 [ref. 35257], Kwun et al. 2017:143 [ref. 37287], Shibukawa et al. 2019:38 [ref. 36663], Ikeda et al. 2019:571 [ref. 36910], Kim et al. 2020:169 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:106 [ref. 37637], Dyldin et al. 2021:37 [ref. 38804]). Current status: Valid as Luciogobius guttatus Gill 1859. Gobiidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: China, Korea, Japan and Russia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.