Murdy and Shibukawa, 2001), cylindrical anterior, and laterally compressed posterior (Chanda et al., 2019). Hamilton-Buchanan (1822) described Gobioides rubicundus currently known as Odontamblyopus rubicundus locality from the estuaries of Ganges River, India. Along with Odontamblyopus rubicundus (Hamilton 1822), four other species were described in the genus Odontamblyopus: O. lacepedii (Temminck and Schlegel, 1842), O. rebecca (Murdy and Shibukawa, 2003), O. roseus (Valenciennes, 1837), and O. tenuis