Its large pelvic ray fin bone structure provides B. boddarti with a sitting pad for stability in semi-terrestrial substrate and cushion for landing after hopping.

[6] B. boddarti occurs across the Indo-Pacific region, ranging from India in the west to Papua New Guinea in the east, with additional populations found on the coastline of China in the north and Sulaibikhat Bay in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Kuwait.

[3] Individuals of B. boddarti are noticeably territorial, and will fight with others of their species to defend their burrows at low tide, raising their dorsal fins as a threat display.

Males will also use their tail to jump into the air with their dorsal fins raised as part of a courting ritual to attract females to their burrows during the breeding season.

[5] Boleophthalmus boddarti is primarily herbivorous, and browses on green algae by scraping it off the surface of the ground at low tide using horizontal motions of its head and the teeth of its lower jaw.

[3] A study in Trần Đề district, Sóc Trăng province, Vietnam, found that the sex ratio of B. boddarti distribution during spawning season is approximately 1:1 between males and females, similar to the goby species Pseudapocryptes elongatus and different from some other species of gobies in the region, in which females tend to have a higher catch rate than males.