cobitis, Gobius Pallas [P. S.] 1814:160 [Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica v. 3; ref. 3351] Feodosiya [Feodosia], Crimea, Ukraine, Black Sea. No types known. •Valid as Gobius cobitis Pallas 1814 -- (Miller 1973:485 [ref. 6888], Goren 1979:43 [ref. 1852], Dor 1984:247 [ref. 29757], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1038 [ref. 13677], Maugé 1986:372 [ref. 6218], Miller 1990:934 [ref. 19376], Wheeler 1993:652 [ref. 36605], Goren & Dor 1994:64 [ref. 25356], Kottelat 1997:176 [ref. 22952], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:131 [ref. 26753], Vasil'eva 2003:S44 [ref. 28444], Golani 2005:56 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:103 [ref. 29533], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:551 [ref. 29996], Vasil'eva 2007:154 [ref. 30517], Kovačić & Golani 2008:419 [ref. 33214], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:63 [ref. 36649], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:186 [ref. 31737], Parin et al. 2015:481 [ref. 33547], Miller & Murdy in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2840 [ref. 34618], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[22] 260 [ref. 36492], Golani & Fricke 2018:155 [ref. 36273], Artüz & Fricke 2019:559 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:180 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:100 [ref. 36864], Bariche & Fricke 2020:71 [ref. 37515], Kovačić 2020:77 [ref. 37932], Kovačić et al. 2020:24 [ref. 37519], Manilo 2020:73 [ref. 37795], Abliazov et al. 2021:11 [ref. 38576], Bañón & Maño 2021:91 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:74 [ref. 38303], Iglésias et al. 2021:14 [ref. 38136], Kovačić et al. 2021:40 [ref. 39014], Parenti 2021:176 [ref. 38603], Kovačić et al. 2022: 54 [ref. 39303], Larson 2022:102 [ref. 39971], Niță et al. 2022:82 [ref. 40471], Renoult et al. 2022:62 [ref. 39288], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:16 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Gobius cobitis Pallas 1814. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: southern Ireland and southern England south to Morocco; Red Sea: Gulf of Suez (Mediterranean Sea immigrant). Habitat: brackish, marine.