Gonostoma is a genus of bristlemouths.
| Gonostoma Temporal range:
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| Gonostoma denudatum | |
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| Gonostoma elongatum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Stomiiformes |
| Family: | Gonostomatidae |
| Genus: | Gonostoma Rafinesque, 1810 |
Species
editThere 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, at the time when the country was part of the Paratethys sea.[2]
References
edit- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Gonostoma". FishBase. February 2012 version.
- ^ 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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