Our sincere thanks to the editors for their invitation to contribute to this Special Issue, and to E. Kane, H. Larsson and an anonymous reviewer for their helpful comments on our manuscript. Our studies of amphidromous goby biomechanics and evolution were made possible through support from field stations in Hawai'i (Division of Aquatic Resources: R. Nishimoto, L. Nishiura, T. Sakihara, T. Shimoda, T. Shindo, N. Ahu, S. Hau, W. Ishikawa, K. Peyton, C. Gewecke), Réunion (Hydrô Réunion: G. Borie, H. Grondin), and Dominica (ATREC: N. Osler). We also thank T. Baumann, R. Bertram, M. Blum, W. Bridges, R. Cediel, M. Childress, J. Cullen, N. Espinoza, G. Forker, S. Furtek, G. Griner, S. Hunter, M. Julius, S. Kawano, R. Keeffe, D. Kobayashi, G. Leonard, K. Lesteberg, A. McKamy, A. Meister, D. Ponton, K. Powder, M. Ptacek, R. Rai, A. Rubin, N. Schneider, T. Schoenfuss, G. Schrank, R. Toonen, J. Walker, J. Wren and V. Young for their contributions to the studies highlighted in this Review. This manuscript has been in part co-authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).