Gobiodon

Gobiodon
Okinawa goby (G. okinawae)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Gobiidae
Genus:	Gobiodon Bleeker, 1856
Type species
Gobiodon heterospilos Bleeker, 1856
Synonyms
Ellerya Castelnau, 1873 PseudogobiodonBleeker, 1874

Gobiodon is a genus of gobies also known as coral gobies or "clown gobies" (which can also mean the related genus Microgobius ). Unlike the rest of the family Gobiidae, coral gobies, are not burrowers, instead they inhabit the branches of Acropora or similar hard corals.

As a group, they are small, most ranging about 6 cm, with exceptions. They have a fusiform shape.

Gobiodon burdigalicus from the Burdigalian (Miocene) of southwestern India is the first fossil (otoliths) record of this genus. ^[1]

Species

Accepted species in this genus include:

• Gobiodon acicularis Harold & R. Winterbottom, 1995 (Needlespine coral goby)
• Gobiodon albofasciatus Sawada & R. Arai, 1972 (Whitelined coral goby)
• Gobiodon aoyagii Shibukawa, T. Suzuki & Aizawa, 2013 ^[2]
• Gobiodon ater Herler, Bogorodsky & T. Suzuki, 2013 (Black coralgoby) ^[3]
• Gobiodon atrangulatus Garman, 1903
• Gobiodon axillaris De Vis, 1884
• Gobiodon bicalvolineatus Hildebrandt, C. A., Froehlich, C. Y. M., Brodnicke, O. B., Klanten, O. S., Møller, P. R., & Wong, M. Y. L., 2024 ^[4]
• Gobiodon bilineatus Herler, Bogorodsky & T. Suzuki, 2013 (Two-lined coralgoby) ^[3]
• Gobiodon brochus Harold & R. Winterbottom, 1999
• Gobiodon ceramensis (Bleeker, 1853)
• Gobiodon citrinus (Rüppell, 1838) (Poison goby)
• Gobiodon cobenjaminsis (Hildebrandt, C. A., Froehlich, C. Y. M., Brodnicke, O. B., Klanten, O. S., Møller, P. R., & Wong, M. Y. L, 2024) ^[4]
• Gobiodon fulvus Herre, 1927
• Gobiodon fuscoruber Herler, Bogorodsky & T. Suzuki, 2013 (Brown-red coralgoby) ^[3]
• Gobiodon heterospilos Bleeker, 1856
• Gobiodon histrio (Valenciennes, 1837) (Broad-barred goby)
• Gobiodon irregularis Herler, Bogorodsky & T. Suzuki, 2013 (Rufous coralgoby) ^[3]
• Gobiodon micropus Günther, 1861
• Gobiodon multilineatus H. L. Wu, 1979
• Gobiodon oculolineatus H. L. Wu, 1979
• Gobiodon okinawae Sawada, R. Arai & T. Abe, 1972 (Okinawa goby)
• Gobiodon prolixus R. Winterbottom & Harold, 2005
• Gobiodon quinquestrigatus (Valenciennes, 1837) (Five-lined coral goby)
• Gobiodon reticulatus Playfair (fr), 1867 (Reticulate goby)
• Gobiodon rivulatus (Rüppell, 1830) (Rippled coral goby)
• Gobiodon spilophthalmus Fowler, 1944
• Gobiodon winterbottomi T. Suzuki, Ko. Yano & Senou, 2012 ^[5]
• Gobiodon burdigalicus Carolin, Bajpai, Maurya & Schwarzhans, 2022 ^[1] (otolith-based fossil species)

References

1. Carolin, Nora; Bajpai, Sunil; Maurya, Abhayanand Singh; Schwarzhans, Werner (2022). "New perspectives on late Tethyan Neogene biodiversity development of fishes based on Miocene (~ 17 Ma) otoliths from southwestern India". PalZ. doi:10.1007/s12542-022-00623-9.
2. Shibukawa, K., Suzuki, T. & Aizawa, M. (2013): Gobiodon aoyagii, a New Coral Goby (Actinopterygii, Gobiidae, Gobiinae) from the West Pacific, with Redescription of a Similarly colored Congener Gobiodon erythrospilus Bleeker, 1875. Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Series A, 39 (3): 143-165.
3. Herler, J., Bogorodsky, S.V. & Suzuki, T. (2013): Four new species of coral gobies (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Gobiodon), with comments on their relationships within the genus. Zootaxa, 3709 (4): 301–329.
4. Hildebrandt, C. A., Froehlich, C. Y. M., Brodnicke, O. B., Klanten, O. S., Møller, P. R., & Wong, M. Y. L. (2024). "Two new species of Gobiodon (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Indo-Pacific, with notes on South Pacific and Indian Ocean populations of Gobiodon spadix". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 72: 488–510.
5. Suzuki, T., Yano, K. & Senou, H. (2012): Gobiodon winterbottomi, a New Goby (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Gobiidae) from Iriomote-jima Island, the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural Science, Ser. A., Supplement No. 6: 59–65.