lindbergi, Rhinogobius similis Berg [L. S.] 1933:654, Fig. 612 [Les poissons des eaux douces de l'U.R.S.S. Part 2; ref. 279] Amur River and Ussuri River, Russia. Original not yet seen. •Synonym of Gobius similis (Gill 1859) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:359 [ref. 7348]). •Synonym of Rhinogobius similis Gill 1859, but a valid subspecies as described -- (Berg 1949:1078 [ref. 20662], Vasil'eva 1998:146 [ref. 23591]). •Synonym of Rhinogobius similis Gill 1859 -- (Mitrofanov et al. 1992:269 [ref. 37756], Bogutskaya & Naseka 1996:55 [ref. 22798]). •Synonym of Rhinogobius brunneus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845) -- (Reshetnikov et al. 1997:757 [ref. 24702], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:47 [ref. 26178], Vasil'eva 2003:S53 [ref. 28444]). •Valid as Rhinogobius lindbergi Berg 1933 -- (Sakai et al. 2000:51 [ref. 24911], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:235 [ref. 28183], Valil'eva 2007:696 [ref. 29425], Chen et al. 2008:341 [ref. 29895], Bogutskaya et al. 2008:353 [ref. 30085], Huang et al. 2016:[8] [ref. 34339], Zhang et al. 2016:204 [ref. 34477], Takahashi & Okazaki 2017:[2] [ref. 35171], Suzuki et al. 2017:81 [ref. 35202], Li et al. 2018:6 [ref. 35989], Esmaeili et al. 2019:[6] [ref. 37285], Kuljanishvili et al. 2020:[6] [ref. 37535], Zarei et al. 2021:[7] [ref. 38262], Çiçek et al. 2023:44 [ref. 40326], Çiçek et al. 2023:434 [ref. 40625], Epitashvili et al. 2023:1113 [ref. 40627], Çiçek et al. 2024:321 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Rhinogobius lindbergi Berg 1933. Gobiidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: East Asia: Amur River basin (Russia and Heilongjiang, China). Introduced in Georgia, Iran and Afghanistan. Habitat: freshwater.