abei, Ctenogobius Jordan [D. S.] & Snyder [J. O.] 1901:55, Fig. 5 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 24 (no. 1244); ref. 2509] Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, Inland Sea. Holotype: CAS-SU 6447. Paratypes: USNM 49892 (1). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:141 [ref. 2676], Böhlke 1953:109-110 [ref. 12291]. •Valid as Gobius abei (Jordan & Snyder 1901) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:354 [ref. 7348]). •Valid as Mugilogobius abei (Jordan & Snyder 1901) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:268 [ref. 6441], Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:271 [ref. 26639], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:576 [ref. 25598], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:456 [ref. 23876], Zhu 1995:179 [ref. 25213], Cheng & Zhou 1997:373 [ref. 26385], Kim 1997:466 [ref. 24032], Takahashi et al. 1997:48 [ref. 24971], Sato et al. 1998:42 [ref. 24972], Mizuno et al. 1999:12 [ref. 25311], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:638 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1241 [ref. 25182], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:239 [ref. 25480], Kottelat 2001:60 [ref. 25482], Larson 2001:80 [ref. 25522], Sakai et al. 2001:113 [ref. 25693], Kim & Park 2002:390 [ref. 25913], Nakabo 2002:1241 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:399, 662 [ref. 26218], Matsui et al. 2014:7 [ref. 33344], Kottelat 2013:413 [ref. 32989], Larson et al. 2014:721 [ref. 33557], Huang et al. 2016:14 [ref. 34500], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:262 [ref. 36460], Kim et al. 2020:169 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:106 [ref. 37637], Thu & Thao 2023:642 [ref. 40499]). Current status: Valid as Mugilogobius abei (Jordan & Snyder 1901). Gobiidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: northern Vietnam, southern China and Taiwan to Korea and southern Japan. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.