Gnatholepis

Gnatholepis is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae, the gobies. It is the only marine genus in the subfamily Gobionellinae, which otherwise includes mostly estuary-dwelling and freshwater fish. Gnatholepis are tropical fish associated with sandy habitat around corals.[1]

Gnatholepis
Gnatholepis thompsoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Oxudercidae
Subfamily:	Gobionellinae
Genus:	Gnatholepis Bleeker, 1874
Type species
Gobius anjerensis Bleeker, 1851
Species
10

Species

There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus.[1]

Species include:[2]

• Gnatholepis anjerensis (Bleeker, 1851) (eye-bar goby)

Two eye-bar gobies Gnatholepis anjerensis.

• Gnatholepis argus Larson & Buckle, 2005
• Gnatholepis caudimaculata Larson & Buckle, 2012
• Gnatholepis cauerensis (Bleeker, 1853) (eyebar goby)
• Gnatholepis gymnocara J. E. Randall & D. W. Greenfield, 2001
• Gnatholepis knighti D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1903
• Gnatholepis ophthalmotaenia (Bleeker, 1854)
• Gnatholepis pascuensis J. E. Randall & D. W. Greenfield, 2001 (Rapanui goby)
• Gnatholepis thompsoni D. S. Jordan, 1904 (goldspot goby)
• Gnatholepis yoshinoi T. Suzuki & J. E. Randall, 2009 (Yoshino's goby)

References

1. Larson, H. K. and D. J. Buckle. (2012). A revision of the goby genus Gnatholepis Bleeker (Teleostei, Gobiidae, Gobionellinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3529: 1–69.
2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Gnatholepis in FishBase. June 2013 version.

Further reading

• Randall, John E. and Greenfield, David W. 2001. A preliminary review of the Indo-Pacific Gobiid fishes of the genus Gnatholepis. Ichthyological Bulletin J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 69. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.