Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist Author Esmaeili, Hamid Reza Ichthyology and Molecular Systematics Research Laboratory, Zoology Section, Department of Biology, School of Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. Author Hamidan, Neshat Conservation Monitoring Centre, The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature, Amman, Jordan text Zootaxa 2023 2023-08-15 5330 2 201 226 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2 journal article 54377 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2 917715f5-0eb8-41fb-9436-99a1181a5b9b 1175-5326 8249316 AA61E68D-3A1B-45BD-821F-E6AD862F6808 31. Awaous jayakari (Boulenger, 1888) ―Longnose Goby, Arabian Freshwater Goby, Jayakar’s Goby― Native Taxonomy. Original description: Gobius jayakari Boulenger, 1888:663 , Pl. 54 (fig. 2) [ from a freshwater body near Muscat , Oman ; Syntypes : BMNH 1887.11.11.234-237 (4) ]. Synonyms: Gobius percivali Boulenger, 1901 . Status in the Arabian Peninsula. Recorded from Oman in original description by Boulenger (1888); confirmed by Freyhof et al. (2020) , Al Jufaili et al. (2021), and Esmaeili et al. (2022) . General distribution. Northwestern Indian Ocean: southern Yemen and Gulf of Oman east to Iran . Possibly introduced in Pakistan . Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine. Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Oman : Wadis Shab, Darsit, and several other Wadis adjacent to the coastal area of the Arabian Sea, Dhofar region , UAE , Yemen . Economic importance. No commercial importance. Conservation. Least Concern (LC). Remarks: Record of Awaous aeneofuscus (Peters, 1852) in Wadi Hatta watershed ( UAE and Oman ) is misidentification ( Esmaeili et al. 2022 ).