Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Gobiaria
Ordo: Gobiiformes
Subordo: Gobioidei
Familia: Gobiidae
Subfamilia: Gobiinae
Genus: Gobiodon
Species: G. acicularis – G. albofasciatus – G. albolineatus – G. aoyagii – G. ater – G. atrangulatus – G. axillaris – G. bilineatus – G. brochus – G. ceramensis – G. citrinus – G. erythrospilus – G. flavidus – G. flavus – G. fulvus – G. fuscoruber – G. heterospilos – G. histrio – G. inornatus – G. irregularis – G. micropus – G. multilineatus – G. oculolineatus – G. okinawae – G. prolixus – G. quinquestrigatus – G. reticulatus – G. rivulatus – G. spilophthalmus – G. unicolor – G. winterbottomi
Name
Gobiodon Bleeker (ex Kuhl & van Hasselt), 1856: 385
Type species: Gobius heterospilos Bleeker ♂, 1856. Type by subsequent designation.
Synonyms
Ellerya Castelnau, 1873: 95 [Type: Ellerya unicolor Castelnau 1873. Type by monotypy.]
Pseudogobiodon Bleeker, 1874
References
Bleeker, P. 1856: Bijdrage tot de kennis der ichthyologische fauna van het eiland Boeroe. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië, 11: 383–414.
Harold, A.S. , R. Winterbottom, P.L. Munday & R.W. Chapman 2008: Phylogenetic relationships of Indo-Pacific coral gobies of the genus Gobiodon (Teleostei: Gobiidae), based on morphological and molecular data. Bulletin of Marine Science, 82 (1): 119–136.
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. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3709.4.1 Reference page.
Gobiodon and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2025. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Vernacular names
English: Clown gobies; Coral gobies
Gobiodon is a genus of gobies also known as coral gobies or "clown gobies" (which can also mean the related genus Microgobius). Generally, coral gobies, unlike the rest of the family Gobiidae, are not burrowers, but instead prefer to inhabit the branches of certain Acropora or similar hard corals.
As a group, they have a general fusiform shape and are small, most ranging about 6 cm, though there are exceptions.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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