microcephalus, Trypauchen Bleeker [P.] 1860:62 [Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo-Neêrlandicae v. 8 (art. 4); ref. 377] Sungiduri, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): RMNH 4761. Bleeker's unpublished illustration reproduced in Boeseman 1983:v. 11, Pl. 442, fig. 4 [ref. 12564], Trypauchenichthys microcephalus. •Valid as Trypauchen microcephalus Bleeker 1860 -- (Hoese 1986:805 [ref. 5670], Kottelat et al. 1993:156 [ref. 23448], Johnson 1999:749 [ref. 25471], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:640 [ref. 25122]). •Valid as Ctenotrypauchen microcephalus (Bleeker 1860) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:413 [ref. 7348], Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:288 [ref. 6441], Maugé 1986:366 [ref. 6218], Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:313 [ref. 26639], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:987 [ref. 20764], Rema Devi 1993:187 [ref. 24020], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:563 [ref. 27969], Cheng & Zhou 1997:397 [ref. 26385], Kim 1997:481 [ref. 24032], Nakabo 2000:1157 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:409 [ref. 25191], Larson & Murdy 2001:3593 [ref. 26293], Kim & Park 2002:402 [ref. 25913], Nakabo 2002:1157 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:399, 667 [ref. 26218], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S118 [ref. 27377], Proudlove 2006:269 [ref. 28992], Hoese & Larson 2006:1692 [ref. 29097], Larson et al. 2008:139 [ref. 29532]). •Valid in 'Trypauchen' group -- (Murdy 2006:61 [ref. 28850]). •Valid as Paratrypauchen microcephalus (Bleeker 1860) -- (Murdy 2008:118 [ref. 29751], Murdy 2011:116 [ref. 31729], Larson et al. 2013:204 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:433 [ref. 32989], Matsui et al. 2014:4 [ref. 33344], Fricke et al. 2014:170 [ref. 33932], Prokofiev 2015:660 [ref. 34549], Motomura et al. 2017:200 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:337 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:337 [ref. 35805], Psomadakis et al. 2020:550 [ref. 37272], Ruidas et al. 2020:290 [ref. 37954], Sonoyama et al. 2020:107 [ref. 37637], Parenti 2021:66 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:22 [ref. 39965]). Current status: Valid as Paratrypauchen microcephalus (Bleeker 1860). Gobiidae: Amblyopinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa (Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya) and Madagascar east to Philippines and Vietnam, north to central Japan and Korea, south to northern Australia and New Guinea. Habitat: brackish, marine.
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