The Gobionellinae are a subfamily of fish which was formerly classified in the family Gobiidae, the gobies, but the 5th Edition of Fishes of the World classifies the subfamily as part of the family Oxudercidae. Members of Gobionellinae mostly inhabit estuarine and freshwater habitats; the main exception is the genus Gnatholepis, which live with corals in marine environments. The subfamily is distributed in tropical and temperate regions around the world with the exception of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Ponto-Caspian region.
Fossil records are known from the Middle Miocene of Europe.
It includes around 542 species and 76 genera:
Genera
Acanthogobius Gill, 1869 Amblychaeturichthys Bleeker, 1874 Astrabe Jordan & Snyder, 1901 Awaouichthys Chatterjee & Mishra, 2013 Awaous Valenciennes, 1837 Brachygobius Bleeker, 1874 Buenia Iljin, 1930 Caecogobius Berti & Ercolini 1991 Chaenogobius Gill, 1859 Chaeturichthys Richardson, 1844 Chlamydogobius Whitley, 1930 Clariger Jordan & Snyder, 1901 Clevelandia C. H. Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1888 Crystallogobius Gill, 1863 Ctenogobius Gill, 1858 Deltentosteus Gill, 1863 Economidichthys Bianco, Bullock, Miller & Roubal, 1987 Eucyclogobius Gill, 1862 Eugnathogobius H.M. Smith, 1931 Eutaeniichthys Jordan & Snyder, 1901 Evermannia Jordan, 1895 Evorthodus Gill, 1859 Gillichthys Cooper, 1864 Gnatholepis Bleeker, 1874 Gobioides Lacepède, 1800 Gobionellus Girard, 1858 Gobiopterus Bleeker, 1874 Gymnogobius Gill, 1863 Hemigobius Bleeker, 1874 Hyrcanogobius Iljin, 1928 Ilogton Endruweit, 2024 Ilypnus Jordan & Evermann, 1896 Inu Snyder, 1909 Knipowitschia Iljin, 1927 Lebetus Winther, 1877 Lepidogobius Gill, 1859 Lethops Hubbs, 1926 Leucopsarion Hilgendorf, 1880 Luciogobius Gill, 1859 Mistichthys H.M. Smith, 1902 Mugilogobius Smitt, 1900 Nesogobius Whitley, 1929 Ninnigobius Whitley, 1951 Oligolepis Bleeker, 1874 Orsinigobius Gandolfi, Marconato & Torricelli, 1986 Oxyurichthys Bleeker, 1857 Paedogobius Iwata, S. Hosoya & Larson, 2001 Pandaka Herre, 1927 Papuligobius I. S. Chen & Kottelat, 2003 Paragobiopsis Koumans, 1941 Parawaous Watson, 1993 Polyspondylogobius Kimura & Wu, 1994 Pomatoschistus Gill, 1863 Pseudaphya Iljin, 1930 Pseudogobiopsis Bleeker, 1875 Pseudogobius Popta, 1922 Pterogobius Gill, 1863 Quietula Jordan & Evermann, 1895 Redigobius Herre, 1927 Reptiliceps Prokofiev, 2007 Rhinogobius Gill, 1859 Sagamia Jordan & Snyder, 1901 Schismatogobius de Beaufort, 1912 Siphonogobius Shibukawa & Iwata, 1998 Speleogobius Zander & Jelinek, 1976 Stenogobius Bleeker, 1874 Stigmatogobius Bleeker, 1874 Suruga Jordan & Snyder, 1901 Tamanka Herre, 1927 Tasmanogobius Scott, 1935 Tomiyamia Endruweit, 2024 Triaenopogon Bleeker, 1874 Tridentiger Gill, 1859 Typhlogobius Steindachner, 1879 Wuhanlinigobius Huang, Jaafar & Chen, 2014
The following fossil genera are also known: †Alienagobius Reichenbacher & Bannikov, 2025 (Middle Miocene of Moldova) †Cryptograciles Reichenbacher & Bannikov, 2025 (Middle Miocene of Moldova) †Hesperichthys Schwarzhans et al., 2017 (Middle Miocene of central and eastern Europe)
References
External links
Gobioid Research Institute