Gonostoma

Gonostoma
Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent
G. denudatum
Elongated Bristlemouth Fish (G. elongatum)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Stomiiformes
Family:
Gonostomatidae
Genus:
Gonostoma

Gonostoma is a genus of bristlemouths.

Species

There are three extant species recognized in this genus:[1]

  • Gonostoma atlanticum Norman, 1930 (Atlantic fangjaw)
  • Gonostoma denudatum Rafinesque, 1810
  • Gonostoma elongatum Günther, 1878 (Elongated bristlemouth fish)

Moreover, there is the fossil species

  • Gonostoma dracula Grădianu et al., 2017

G. dracula lived in the Oligocene, in what is today Romania, and at the time of life was the Paratethys sea.[2]

References
  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Gonostoma in FishBase. February 2012 version.
  2. Ionuţ Grădianu; Tomáš Přikryl; Růžena Gregorová; Antony S. Harold (2017). "†Gonostoma dracula sp. nov. (Teleostei, Gonostomatidae) from the Oligocene deposits of the Central Paratethys (Romania): earliest occurrence of the modern bristlemouths". Bulletin of Geosciences. 92 (3): 323–336. doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1683.


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