The species "Gobiida" brioche was assigned to "Gobius" brioche (Lin, Girone & Nolf, 2015) in Lin et al. (2017), and was reassigned as Hoeseichthys brioche (Lin, Girone & Nolf, 2015) in Schwarzhans et al. (2020). References: Lin, C.-H., Brzobohatý, R., Nolf, D., Girone, A., 2017. Tortonian teleost otoliths from northern Italy: taxonomic synthesis and stratigraphic significance. European Journal of Taxonomy 322: 1–44. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.322 Schwarzhans, W., Agiadi, K., & Carnevale, G. (2020). Late Miocene–Early Pliocene evolution of Mediterranean gobies and their environmental and biogeographic significance. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 126(3), 657-724.

Gobiida brioche was named by Lin et al. (2015). Its type specimen is P 9430, an otolith (sagitta), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Moncucco Torinese, which is in a Tortonian deep-water sandstone in the Sant’Agata Fossili Formation of Italy.