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Gobiidae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	252928	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=252928

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Perciformes : Gobiidae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
superclass	Actinopterygii
class	Actinopteri
subclass	Neopterygii
-	Teleosteomorpha	Arratia et al. 2004
-	Teleostei
-	Osteoglossocephalai
-	Clupeocephala	Patterson and Rosen 1977
-	Euteleosteomorpha
-	Neoteleostei	Rosen 1973
-	Eurypterygia
-	Ctenosquamata
-	Acanthomorphata
-	Euacanthomorphacea
-	Percomorphaceae
-	Percomorpharia
order	Perciformes	Stirton 1953
family	Gobioidei	Agassiz 1835
family	Gobiidae	Bonaparte 1832

Common Name

goby

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Gobiidae	family	belongs to Gobioidea	stated without evidence	Jordan, 1963
Gobiidae	family	belongs to Perciformes	stated without evidence	Danil'chenko, 1980
Gobiidae	family	belongs to Perciformes	implied	Böhme, 2010
Gobiidae	family	belongs to Gobioidei	stated without evidence	Fierstine et al., 2012
Gobiidae	family	belongs to Gobioidei	stated with evidence	Betancur-R et al., 2013
Gobiidae	family	belongs to Gobioidei	stated without evidence	Lin et al., 2017
Gobiidae	family	belongs to Gobiiformes	stated without evidence	Ebersole et al., 2019

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

10 (37%)

First Recorded Appearance

48.6 - 41.3 Ma
Eocene

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Perciformes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Perciformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. Böhme. 2010. Ectothermic vertebrates (Actinopterygii, Allocaudata, Urodela, Anura, Crocodylia, Squamata) from the Miocene of Sandelzhausen (Germany, Bavaria) and their implications for environment reconstruction and palaeoclimate. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 84(1):3-41

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Aboma ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Deltentosteus genus	listed (PBDB)	7	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Gobius genus	listed (PBDB)	39	16.9 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Gymnogobius ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Knipowitschia ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	13.8 Ma Miocene	13.8 Ma Miocene
Lepidogobius genus	listed (PBDB)	1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Lesueurigobius genus	listed (PBDB)	17	28.4 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Lethops genus	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Neogobius ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	2	13.8 Ma Miocene	8.70 Ma Miocene
Ortugobius ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Pomatoschistus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	13.8 Ma Miocene	13.8 Ma Miocene
Ponticola ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	13.8 Ma Miocene	13.8 Ma Miocene
Rhinogobiops genus	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1832	Gobiidae Bonaparte
1963	Gobiidae Jordan p. 724
1980	Gobiidae Danil'chenko p. 168
2010	Gobiidae Böhme p. 10
2012	Gobiidae Fierstine et al. p. 139
2013	Gobiidae Betancur-R. et al.
2017	Gobiidae Lin et al. p. 12
2019	Gobiidae Ebersole et al. p. 204

References

Böhme M. (2010) Ectothermic vertebrates (Actinopterygii, Allocaudata, Urodela, Anura, Crocodylia, Squamata) from the Miocene of Sandelzhausen (Germany, Bavaria) and their implications for environment reconstruction and palaeoclimate, Paläontologische Zeitschrift 84 1, 3-41 doi:10.1007/s12542-010-0050-4

Jordan D. S. (1963) The Genera of Fishes and a Classification of Fishes, Stanford University Press, 1-816

Danil'chenko P. G. (1980) Otryad Perciformes, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 178, 115-169

Fierstine H. L., Huddleston R. W., et al (2012) Catalog of the Neogene bony fishes of California: A ystematic inventory of all published accounts, Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 159, 1-206

Betancur-R. R., Broughton R. E., et al (2013) The tree of life and a new classification of bony fishes, PLOS Currents Tree of Life doi:10.1371/currents.tol.53ba26640df0ccaee75bb165c8c26288

Lin C.-H., Brzobohaty R., et al (2017) Tortonian teleost otoliths from northern Italy: taxonomic synthesis and stratigraphic significance, European Journal of Taxonomy 322, 1-44 doi:10.5852/ejt.2017.322

Ebersole J. A., Cicimurri D. J., et al (2019) Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths, European Journal of Taxonomy 585, 1-274 doi:10.5852/ejt.2019.585

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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