Original description as Gobius cyprinoides:
ZooBank:3CF9A62B-E6FA-4290-96EB-342CE5B33924.
- Pallas, Petrus Simon. 1770. "Spicilegia Zoologica quibus novae imprimis et obscurae animalium species iconibus, descriptionibus atque commentariis illustrantur". Berolini, Gottl. August. Lange. 1:1-56 (ffm00448)
Synonyms (1):
- Gobius crista-galli Valenciennes, 1868, with type locality at Havana, Cuba. Determiner: Evermann & Kendall, 1898
Conservation: Lophogobius cyprinoides is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2010). This widely distributed, cryptic species can be common where it occurs in mangrove habitat. There are no known major threats (van Tassell et al., 2015).