giuris, Gobius Hamilton [F.] 1822:51, 366, Pl. 33 (fig. 15) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Ganges River, India. Lectotype: whereabouts unknown. Lectotype selected by Fricke 1999:512 [ref. 24106] as the specimen illustrated in Pl. 33 (fig. 15) in the original description. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 32 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Glossogobius giuris (Hamilton 1822) -- (Roberts 1978:61 [ref. 8886], Shrestha 1978:41 [ref. 15970], Goren 1979:41 [ref. 1852], Dor 1984:245 [ref. 29757], Maugé 1986:368 [ref. 6218], Hoese 1986:790 [ref. 5670], Wu & Ni in Kuang et al. 1986:275 [ref. 26639], Ataur Rahman 1989:307 [ref. 24860], Zheng 1989:345 [ref. 21202], Allen & Leggett 1990:541 [ref. 20887], Larson & Martin 1990:66 [ref. 16606], Allen & Coates 1990:00 [ref. 25561] as giurus, Coad 1991:22 [ref. 15702], Pethiyagoda 1991:245 [ref. 20075], Allen 1991:181 [ref. 21090] as giurus, Talwar & Jhingran 1991:936 [ref. 20764], Indra 1991:242 [ref. 24005], Wu in Pan et al. 1991:463 [ref. 23876], Allen et al. 1992:303 [ref. 21400], Kottelat et al. 1993:145 [ref. 23448], Rema Devi 1993:358 [ref. 24007], Rema Devi 1993:175 [ref. 24020], Indra 1993:190 [ref. 24009], Rema Devi & Ilango 1993:250 [ref. 24017], Singh & Yazdani 1993:200 [ref. 24022], Skelton 1993:365 [ref. 24071], Banister 1994:28 [ref. 22507], Goren & Dor 1994:64 [ref. 25356], Indra 1994:424 [ref. 24015], Zhu 1995:180 [ref. 25213], Kottelat & Lim 1996:247 [ref. 23210], Sen 1995:589 [ref. 23778], Coad 1995:30 [ref. 23608], Coad 1996:7 [ref. 23831], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:563 [ref. 27969], Rainboth 1996:200 [ref. 22772], Banik & Choudhury 1996:580 [ref. 24736], Reinthal & Stiassny 1997:354 [ref. 22780] as giurus, Chen et al. 1997:163 [ref. 26476], Coad 1998:103 [ref. 23869], Manimekalan 1998:442 [ref. 24989], Ng & Tan 1999:364 [ref. 24159] as giurus, Fricke 1999:511 [ref. 24106], Keith et al. 1999:112 [ref. 24548] as giurus, Rema Devi & Raghunathan 1999:158 [ref. 24759], Rema Devi et al. 1999:162 [ref. 24758], Menon 1999:294 [ref. 24904], Mishra et al. 1999:88 [ref. 25315], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:637 [ref. 25122], Freyhof et al. 2000:97 [ref. 25184], Rafique 2000:327 [ref. 25220], Raju Thomas et al. 2000:444 [ref. 25319], Karmakar 2000:35 [ref. 25662], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:187 [ref. 25703], Allen et al. 2000:123 [ref. 27467] as giurus, Kottelat 2001:60 [ref. 25482], Arunachalam et al. 2001:129 [ref. 25692], Doi et al. 2001:16 [ref. 25691], Larson & Murdy 2001:3597 [ref. 26293], Unmack 2001:1064 [ref. 25797], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Skelton 2001:365 [ref. 27406], Allen et al. 2002:268 [ref. 25930] as giurus, Raju Thomas et al. 2002:51 [ref. 26359], Rafique et al. 2003:98 [ref. 27173], Mirza 2003:24 [ref. 27265], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S119 [ref. 27377] as giurus, Khan 2003:10 [ref. 27710], Yadav 2003:24 [ref. 27711], Seegers et al. 2003:46 [ref. 28087], Ataur Rahman 2003:333 [ref. 31338], Morgan et al. 2004:150 [ref. 27718], Tan & Lim 2004:111 [ref. 27716], Hoese & Larson 2006:1653 [ref. 29097], Shrestha 2008:224 [ref. 29923], Larson et al. 2008:149 [ref. 29532], Allen et al. 2008:168 [ref. 30265], Fricke et al. 2009:101 [ref. 30213], Esmaeili et al. 2010:377 [ref. 33391], Morgan et al. 2011:18 [ref. 31262], Schliewen 2011:217 [ref. 31738], Marshall 2011:265 [ref. 31755], Hoese & Allen 2012:269 [ref. 31974], Ahmed et al. 2013:287 [ref. 32872], Larson et al. 2013:198 [32988], Kottelat 2013:407 [ref. 32989], Morgan et al. 2014:24 [ref. 36567], Hoese et al. 2015:18 [ref. 33684], Hoese & Allen 2015:214 [ref. 33880], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:898 [ref. 34062], Esmaeili et al. 2015:123 [ref. 35030], Prokofiev 2016:646 [ref. 35020], Pusey et al. 2017:73 [ref. 35250], Esmaeili et al. 2017:82 [ref. 35254], Arunkumar & Manimekalan 2018:1739 [ref. 36172], Esmaeili et al. 2018:63 [ref. 36089], Fricke et al. 2018:332 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:154 [ref. 36273], Suresh et al. 2018:284 [ref. 36495], Arndt & Fricke 2019:16 [ref. 36883], Esmaeili et al. 2019:[6] [ref. 37285], Ng et al. 2019:533 [ref. 36606], Zajonz et al. 2019:96 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 14 [ref. 38321], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:231 [ref. 37983], Psomadakis et al. 2020:548 [ref. 37272], Hammer et al. 2021:[5] 91 [ref. 39008], Hoese & Hammer 2021:91 [ref. 38350], Parenti 2021:162 [ref. 38603], Taki et al. 2021:431 [ref. 39830], Al Jufaili et al. 2022:546 [ref. 39237], Kosygin et al. 2022:672 [ref. 40736], Larson 2022:93 [ref. 39971], Shangningam & Kosygin 2022:61 [ref. 39587], Tudu et al. 2022:43 [ref. 40484], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:14 [ref. 40247], Jamandre 2023:168 [ref. 40455], Thu & Thao 2023:642 [ref. 40499], Zarei et al. 2023:29 [ref. 40477] as cf. giuris, Çiçek et al. 2024:304 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Glossogobius giuris (Hamilton 1822). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Southern Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Society Islands (French Polynesia), north to Philippines, south to Pilbara (Western Australia), Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.