Stigmatogobius yanamensis Rao, 1971

Larson, Helen K. & Hammer, Michael P., 2021, A revision of the gobiid fish genus Pseudogobius (Teleostei, Gobiidae, Tridentigerinae), with description of seven new species from Australia and South-east Asia, Zootaxa 4961 (1), pp. 1-85 : 79

Stigmatogobius yanamensis Rao, 1971

Stigmatogobius yanamensis Rao, 1971: 48 , figs 2b, 2d, 2e, 2f (Godavari Estuary, India).

This species is referred to as a Pseudogobius in Larson (2001) and as Pseudogobius yanamensis in Tran et al. (2013: 145) but does not belong to this genus. The holotype and six paratypes are held at the Zoology Museum, Andhra University, Waltair, and specimens are known from several other localities ( HKL pers. observ. and K. Shibukawa; in litt.). Recent material examined from the Mekong River system shows that this species does not belong in Pseudogobius as it has a different arrangement of sensory canals and pores on the head and does not have the characteristic corkscrew-shaped intestinal arrangement found in Pseudogobius .