| Valid name | Gaidropsarus |
| Synonym | Gender: M; Indice d'Ittiologia siciliana: 11, 51 |
| Synonym | Type: G. mustellaris Rafinesque = G. mediterraneus Linnaeus, 1758, by monotypy. |
| Synonym | Gaidropsarus Rafinesque, 1810 |
| Synonym | Dropsarus Rafinesque, 1815, Analyse de la Nature: 82 (nomen nudum). |
| Synonym | Onos Risso, 1826, Hist. Nat. Eur. mérid.: 214 (type: O. mustella Risso). |
| Synonym | Mustela Oken, 1817, Isis: 1182 (preoccupied in Mammals). |
| Synonym | Motella Cuvier, 1829, Règne animal, ed. II, 2: 334 (type: Gadus tricirrhatus Bloch). |
| Synonym | Onus Risso, 1826); preoccupied by Onus Rafinesque, 1810 (May) = Merluccius Rafinesque, 1810 (April); dating |