Gobionellinae

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Gobionellinae
Temporal range: Middle Miocene to present
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Gymnogobius petschiliensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Subfamily: Gobionellinae
Bleeker, 1874

The Gobionellinae are a subfamily of fish which was formerly classified in the family Gobiidae, the gobies, but the 5th Edition of Fishes of the World classifies the subfamily as part of the family Oxudercidae. [1] Members of Gobionellinae mostly inhabit estuarine and freshwater habitats; the main exception is the genus Gnatholepis , which live with corals in marine environments. [2] The subfamily is distributed in tropical and temperate regions around the world with the exception of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Ponto-Caspian region.

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Fossil records are known from the Middle Miocene of Europe. [3]

It includes around 542 species and 76 genera:

Genera

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Brachygobius xanthozonus

The following fossil genera are also known: [3] [4]

References

  1. ↑ Nelson, Joseph S.; Grande, Terry C.; Wilson, Mark V. H. (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons. p. 752. doi:10.1002/9781119174844. ISBN   978-1-118-34233-6.
  2. ↑ Larson, H. K.; D. J. Buckle (2012). "A revision of the goby genus Gnatholepis Bleeker (Teleostei, Gobiidae, Gobionellinae), with description of a new species" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3529: 1–69. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3529.1.1.
  3. 1 2 3 Schwarzhans, Werner; Ahnelt, Harald; Carnevale, Giorgio; Japundžić, Sanja; Bradić, Katarina; Bratishko, Andriy (2017-03-01). "Otoliths in situ from Sarmatian (Middle Miocene) fishes of the Paratethys. Part III: tales from the cradle of the Ponto-Caspian gobies". Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. 136 (1): 45–92. Bibcode:2017SwJP..136...45S. doi:10.1007/s13358-016-0120-7. ISSN   1664-2384.
  4. ↑ Reichenbacher, Bettina; Bannikov, Alexander F. (2025-06-23). "Diversity of gobioid fishes in the late Middle Miocene of northern Moldova, Eastern Paratethys—part III: dwarf gobies". PalZ. 99 (3): 285–318. Bibcode:2025PalZ..tmp...33R. doi:10.1007/s12542-025-00726-z. ISSN   1867-6812.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: bibcode (link)


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