Synonymy of Gobiopsis liolepis (Bleeker)

Callogobius liolepis Bleeker in Koumans 1931:75 [from Bleeker, unpublished, p. 258]. Koumans 1932:14 [description from Bleeker specimens, table of morphometrics and meristics]; Koumans 1940:168, 207 [comparison with C. atratus Griffin = Gobiopsis atrata (Griffin)], 168 [comparison with Gunnamatta insolita Whitley = Callogobius depressus (Ramsay & Ogilby)]; Koumans 1953a:248 [in part, list of C. okinawae of the Snellius Expedition]; Koumans 1953b:97 [in part, description based in part on C. okinawae]; Rangarajan 1968:347, 350– 352, tab. II [following Koumans 1953b, comparison with C. mannarensis, key]; Menon & Chatterjee 1974:127– 128 [comparison with C. andamanensis, key]; Akihito & Meguro 1975:112, table 1 [listing as syntypes, comparison with C. hasseltii (Bleeker) and C. okinawae (Snyder)]; Goren 1979a:43 [key]; Goren 1979b:216, table II [comparison with C. clarki (Goren), data from Koumans 1953b]; Chen & Yu 1986 [listed for Taiwan, basis unknown]; Larson & Murdy 2001:3595 [listed for western central Pacific, based on original description?].

Callogobius hasseltii (non Bleeker 1851).— Fowler 1949:133 [uncertainly synonymised from description in Koumans 1931; correctly assigning authorship to Bleeker].

Gobiopsis aporia Lachner & McKinney 1978:11–15, key, fig. 6, tabs. 1–6, pls. 1, 2b, 7a. Lachner & McKinney 1979:5 [comparison with G. atrata (Griffin)]; Akihito 1984:267, fig. 142, pl. 354D [brief description, distribution]; Böhlke 1984:104 [type list]; Ibarra & Stewart 1987:41 [type list]; Akihito et al. 1993a: 1042 [description, schematic drawing, key]; Akihito et al. 1993b: 1103, fig. 3 [schematic illustration of head barbels and papillae pattern]; Larson (in Randall & Lim) 2000:638 [listed for South China Sea]; Hutchins 2001:43 [listed for Western Australia]; Larson & Murdy 2001:3598 [listed for western central Pacific, based on original description]; Akihito et al. 2002:1249 [brief description, distribution, key, schematic illustration], fig. 37–6; Allen & Adrim 2003:59 [list]; Shibukawa et al. (in Kimura & Matsuura) 2003:185 [brief description and photo, Bitung Sulawesi]; Hoese & Larson 2006:1658 [list]; Shibukawa 2010:97 [general description of genus]; Allen & Erdmann 2012:976 [brief description and photo].