The zoologist Johnson T. F. Chen has written that besides the large mud skipper, there are also what the Chinese call the "blue mudskipper" (scartelaos viridis) (whose upper body is deep blue, with black spots on the head and fins), and the small sized "jumping mudskipper."
動物學者陳兼善所著的「台灣脊椎動物志」書中指出，在台灣，彈塗魚除大彈塗魚（即一般所稱的花跳外），尚有身體上部呈深藍色，頭、鰭有黑點的「青彈塗」魚與體型最小，俗稱石跳仔或恐鏘仔的「跳彈塗」。