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Gonostoma

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Gonostoma
Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent
Gonostoma denudatum
Gonostoma elongatum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Stomiiformes
Family: Gonostomatidae
Genus: Gonostoma
Rafinesque, 1810

Gonostoma is a genus of bristlemouths.

Species

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

Moreover, there is the fossil species

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

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  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Gonostoma". 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.