Gonostoma

Gonostoma; Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Gonostoma denudatum
	Gonostoma elongatum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Stomiiformes
Family:	Gonostomatidae
Genus:	Gonostoma; Rafinesque, 1810

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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, at the time when the country was part of the Paratethys sea.^[2]

References

^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Gonostoma in 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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[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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