Description originale:
- Girard, Charles Frederic. 1858. "Notes upon various new genera and new species of fishes, in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution, and collected in connection with the United States and Mexican boundary survey: Major William Emory, Commissioner". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. (10):167-171 (ffm04559)
Espèces décrites (4):
valide: 2 Synonyme: 2- Gobius microdon Gilbert, 1892 (valide)
- Gobius claytonii Meek, 1902 (valide)
- Gobionellus mystax Ginsburg, 1953 (Synonyme)
- Gobionellus atripinnis Gilbert & Randall, 1979 (Synonyme)