Subfamily Eleotrinae Bonaparte 1835

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Éleuthéropodes Duméril 1805:122 [ref. 1151] (family)? Gobiomorus [no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Eleotridini Bonaparte 1835:[12] [ref. 32242] (subfamily) Eleotris [genus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1; stem corrected to Eleotr- by Swainson 1839:183, 281 [ref. 4303], confirmed by Lindberg 1971:184 [ref. 27211] and by Nelson 1976:277 [ref. 32838]; original stem Eleotrid- confirmed by Steyskal 1980:170 [ref. 14191] and by Kottelat 2013b:388 [ref. 32989]; Eschmeyer 1998:2488 [ref. 23416] and Nelson 2006:421 [ref. 32486] used Eleotridae]

Philypni Gill 1860a:120, 122 [ref. 17623] (tribe) Philypnus

Hypseleotrini Bleeker 1874b:290, 295, 305 [ref. 437] (tribe) Hypseleotris [no valid type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Alexurus Jordan 1895:511 [ref. 2394] (no family-group name)

Belobranchinae Fowler 1938a:129 [ref. 1426] (subfamily) Belobranchus

? Vomerodontia Herre 1953:732 [ref. 5594] (section)? [no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Gobiomoridae Whitley 1954b:30 [ref. 4721] (family) Gobiomorus [genus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1; a substitute for Eleotridae auct.]