| Valid name | Halobatrachus |
| Synonym | Gender: M; Ann. Queensland Mus., (9) Part II: 46 |
| Synonym | Type: Batrachus didactylus Schneider, in Bloch and Schneider, 1801, by orig. design. |
| Synonym | Halobatrachus Ogilby, 1908 |
| Synonym | Nec Batrachoides Walbaum, 1792: 575. |
| Synonym | Batracoides Berthold, 1827, in Latreille, Nat. Fam. Thierreichs: 136. |
| Synonym | Batrachichthys L. Agassiz, 1847 (pro parte), Nomencl. zool. Index Univ.: 44, emend. for Batrictius Rafinesque, 181 |
| Synonym | Nec Batrachoides Hitchcock, 1858, Ichnol. N. Engl., (47): 121 (Amphib.?) |
| Synonym | Batrictius Rafinesque, 1815 (pro parte), Analyse de la Nature . . .: 82, a subst. for Batrachoides Lacepède, 1800. |
| Synonym | Batrachoides Lacepède, 1800 (pro parte), Hist. nat. Poissons, 2, An VIII (1800): 451 (type: Batrachoides tau |
| Synonym | Batrachus Schneider (ex Klein, 1742, Missus tertius . . ., 15), 1801, in Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol.: 42 (1rst n |
| Synonym | Batrichthius Jordan, genera . . ., I, 1917: 82 (err. typ., cf. II, 1919: 171). |