Glossanodon is a genus of fishes in the family Argentinidae.
Extant species There are currently 15 recognized extant species in this genus: Glossanodon australis Kobyliansky, 1998 (Southern herring smelt) Glossanodon danieli Parin & Shcherbachev, 1982 Glossanodon elongatus Kobyliansky, 1998 Glossanodon kotakamaru Endo & Nashida, 2010 (Kotaka’s argentine) Glossanodon leioglossus (Valenciennes, 1848) (Small-toothed argentine) Glossanodon lineatus (Matsubara, 1943) Glossanodon melanomanus Kobyliansky, 1998 Glossanodon microcephalus Endo & Nashida, 2012Endo, H. & Nashida, K. (2012): Glossanodon microcephalus, a New Argentine Fish from Japan and the South China Sea (Protacanthopterygii: Argentinidae). Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural Science, Ser. A., Supplement No. 6: 17–26. Glossanodon mildredae Cohen & Atsaides, 1969 Glossanodon nazca Parin & Shcherbachev, 1982 Glossanodon polli Cohen, 1958 Glossanodon pseudolineatus Kobyliansky, 1998 (Saddled herring smelt) Glossanodon pygmaeus Cohen, 1958 (Pygmy argentine) Glossanodon semifasciatus (Kishinouye, 1904) (Deep-sea smelt) Glossanodon struhsakeri Cohen, 1970 (Struhsaker's deep-sea smelt)
Fossil species From the fossil record, two species are known, originally described as Proargentina inclinata (Danilt'chenko 1960) and P. nebulosa (Danilt'chenko 1962) from the Early Oligocene and Early Eocene Dabakhana Svita Formation of Georgia respectively.Proargentina inclinata at Fossilworks.orgProargentina nebulosa at Fossilworks.org Jerzmanska assigned Proargentina synonymous with Glossanodon in 1968.Constantin, 1999, p.124
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